Granted Patent B2

US 12,204,946 · App. 17/160,540 · Granted Jan 21, 2025

Inventors: William Price Dawkins (Lakeway, TX); Praveen Vishakantaiah (Austin, TX); Mark Steven Sanders (Roanoke, VA); Gaurav Chawla (Austin, TX); John S. Hardwood (Boston, MA); Mukund P. Khatri (Austin, TX)

Assignee: Dell Products L.P.

G06F9/5077G06F9/468G06F9/5011G06F9/5027G06F2209/509

Abstract

Claims (47)

1. A system control processor manager for providing computer implemented services using composed information handling systems that utilize resource sets of information handling systems, comprising:

storage for storing a telemetry data map of the resource sets of the information handling systems; and

an infrastructure manager programmed to:

obtain a composition request for a composed information handling system;

allocate, in response to the composition request, a portion of the resource sets to the composed information handling system using the telemetry data map,

wherein second resource sets of a first information handling system comprise a compute resource set comprising a physical processor and a hardware resource set comprising a hardware storage device and a hardware memory device,

wherein third resource sets of a second information handling system comprise a second compute resource set, a second hardware resource set, and a control resource set comprising a physical system control processor,

wherein the second resource sets do not comprise a second control resource set,

wherein the physical system control processor connects to the second compute resource set via a compute resource interface and connects to the second hardware resource set via a hardware resource interface;

make a determination that the hardware resource set allocated to the composed information handling system is hosted by the first information handling system of the information handling systems that does not include any physical system control processor, wherein the first information handling system comprises a system control processor client; and

in response to the determination:

provide the composed information handling system with access to the physical system control processor without adding any physical system control processors to the first information handling system, wherein the providing comprises:

allocating the physical system control processor being part of the control resource set hosted on the second information handling system to the composed information handling system,

 wherein the second information handling system further hosts a processor being part of the second compute resource set allocated to the composed information handling system,

 wherein the physical system control processor comprises a set of hardware resource services,

 wherein the set of hardware resource services communicate with the system control processor client to present the allocated hardware resource set to the processor as bare metal resources; and

direct access requests, by entities hosted by the first information handling system and directed to the portion of the allocated resource sets, through the physical system control processor.

2. A method for providing computer implemented services using composed information handling systems that utilize resource sets of information handling systems, comprising:

obtaining a composition request for a composed information handling system;

allocating, in response to the composition request, a portion of the resource sets to the composed information handling system using a telemetry data map,

wherein second resource sets of a first information handling system comprise a compute resource set comprising a physical processor and a hardware resource set comprising a hardware storage device and a hardware memory device,

wherein third resource sets of a second information handling system comprise a second compute resource set, a second hardware resource set, and a control resource set comprising a physical system control processor,

wherein the second resource sets do not comprise a second control resource set,

wherein the physical system control processor connects to the second compute resource set via a compute resource interface and connects to the second hardware resource set via a hardware resource interface;

making a determination that the hardware resource set allocated to the composed information handling system is hosted by the first information handling system of the information handling systems that does not include any physical system control processor, wherein the first information handling system comprises a system control processor client; and

in response to the determination:

providing the composed information handling system with access to the physical system control processor without adding any physical system control processors to the first information handling system, wherein the providing comprises:

allocating the physical system control processor being part of the control resource set hosted on the second information handling system to the composed information handling system,

wherein the second information handling system further hosts a processor being part of the second compute resource set allocated to the composed information handling system,

wherein the physical system control processor comprises a set of hardware resource services,

wherein the set of hardware resource services communicate with the system control processor client to present the allocated hardware resource set to the processor as bare metal resources; and

directing access requests by entities hosted by the first information handling system and directed to the portion of the allocated resource sets, through the physical system control processor.

3. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method for providing computer implemented services using composed information handling systems that utilize resource sets of information handling systems, the method comprising:

obtaining a composition request for a composed information handling system;

allocating, in response to the composition request, a portion of the resource sets to the composed information handling system using a telemetry data map,

wherein second resource sets of a first information handling system comprise a compute resource set comprising a physical processor and a hardware resource set comprising a hardware storage device and a hardware memory device,

wherein third resource sets of a second information handling system comprise a second compute resource set, a second hardware resource set, and a control resource set comprising a physical system control processor,

wherein the second resource sets do not comprise a second control resource set,

wherein the physical system control processor connects to the second compute resource set via a compute resource interface and connects to the second hardware resource set via a hardware resource interface;

making a determination that the hardware resource set allocated to the composed information handling system is hosted by the first information handling system of the information handling systems that does not include any physical system control processor, wherein the first information handling system comprises a system control processor client; and

in response to the determination:

providing the composed information handling system with access to the physical system control processor without adding any physical system control processors to the first information handling system, comprising:

allocating the physical system control processor being part of the control resource set hosted on the second information handling system to the composed information handling system,

wherein the second information handling system further hosts a processor being part of the second compute resource set allocated to the composed information handling system,

wherein the physical system control processor comprises a set of hardware resource services,

wherein the set of hardware resource services communicate with the system control processor client to present the allocated hardware resource set to the processor as bare metal resources; and

directing access requests by entities hosted by the first information handling system and directed to the portion of the allocated resource sets, through the physical system control processor.

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