Real time detection of changed resources for provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- detecting a newly available compute element having multiple operating modes selected by included mode selection bits;
receiving a directive to form a compute system according to required compute system capabilities;
altering the bits according to the required capabilities; and
wherein the compute element comprises at least one partition of a plurality of physically partitionable symmetric multiprocessors, the at least one partition being formed at least in part by programmatically configuring links between processors of the physically partitionable symmetric multiprocessor to selectively isolate subsets of the processors with respect to respective shared memory coherency and cache coherency transactions on a link-by-link basis, the programmatic configuring of links comprising programming at least a portion of the included mode selection bits.
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Abstract
Real time provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers includes monitoring system status and configuration, displaying monitoring results, accepting user commands, and providing hardware and software management and configuration commands to the system. In one embodiment, an event is generated when a pluggable module is inserted into the system. In response to the event, the availability of the pluggable module is displayed to a system operator, and the operator enters a command to provision a server that includes the pluggable module. The server provisioning command is processed, resulting in a hardware configuration command being issued to the system, and an event indicating a status associated with processing the command is returned. The recognition of the inserted module, the display to the operator, and the processing of the server provisioning command occur in real time.
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1. A method comprising:
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detecting a newly available compute element having multiple operating modes selected by included mode selection bits; receiving a directive to form a compute system according to required compute system capabilities; altering the bits according to the required capabilities; and wherein the compute element comprises at least one partition of a plurality of physically partitionable symmetric multiprocessors, the at least one partition being formed at least in part by programmatically configuring links between processors of the physically partitionable symmetric multiprocessor to selectively isolate subsets of the processors with respect to respective shared memory coherency and cache coherency transactions on a link-by-link basis, the programmatic configuring of links comprising programming at least a portion of the included mode selection bits. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A system comprising:
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a compute element having multiple operating modes; a detection circuit to detect availability of the compute element; a management software execution circuit executing management software; the management software having functions comprising receiving a directive to form a compute system according to required compute system capabilities, and altering mode selection bits included in the compute element according to the required capabilities; and wherein the compute element comprises at least one partition of a plurality of physically partitionable symmetric multiprocessors, the at least one partition being formed at least in part by programmatically configuring links between processors of the physically partitionable symmetric multiprocessor to selectively isolate subsets of the processors with respect to respective shared memory coherency and cache coherency transactions on a link-by-link basis, the programmatic configuring of links comprising programming at least a portion of the included mode selection bits. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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