System using management server for migration of profiles for device bays in between enclosures

• US 8,041,789 B1
• Filed: 01/28/2009
• Issued: 10/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Kelley, Keith L., Huang, Michelle Catherine C., Bobco, Peter J., Nichele, Caren Moraes
• Primary Examiner(s): LUU, LE HIEN
• Application Number:
  US12/361,365
• Time in Patent Office: 993 Days
• Field of Search: 709/220, 709/221, 709/222, 709/223, 709/224, 709/204, 726/1, 726/3, 715/781, 705/8, 718/104, 455/557, 370/254
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5077 Logical partitioning of resources; Management or configuration of virtualized resources specific details on emulation or internal functioning of virtual machines G06F9/455

Abstract

A system comprises a first enclosure comprising a plurality of device bays and a first enclosure virtual connect device that is configured to virtualize one or more of the device bays in the first enclosure. The system also comprises a second enclosure comprising a plurality of device bays and a management server communicatively coupled to the first enclosure virtual connect device. At least one bay in the first enclosure has a device included therein. That device uses an associated profile that defines, at least in part, how that device is virtualized. The management server is configured to migrate the profile for use by a device in a bay of the second enclosure.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a first enclosure comprising a plurality of device bays and a first enclosure virtual connect device that is configured to virtualize one or more of the device bays in the first enclosure;

a second enclosure comprising a plurality of device bays;

a management server communicatively coupled to the first enclosure virtual connect device;

wherein at least one bay in the first enclosure has a device included therein and said device uses an associated profile that defines, at least in part, how that device is virtualized; and

wherein the management server is configured to migrate said profile for use by a device in a bay of the second enclosure.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the profile includes at least one mapping of a media access control (MAC) address or a World Wide Name (WWN) to a different value.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the profile is stored in the management server.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the profile is stored in the virtual connect device.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the management server migrates the profile by re-assigning said profile to be used by a device in the bay of the second enclosure instead of the device in the first enclosure.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein if the management server determines that the migration of the profile failed, the management server automatically assigns said profile back to the device in the first enclosure.

7. The system of claim 1 further comprising a graphical user interface accessible to a user of the management server, said graphical user interface usable by a user to select the device in the first enclosure whose profile is to be migrated and to select the device in the second enclosure to be assigned said profile.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium (CRM) comprising software that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to:

delete a profile from a first virtual connect domain in a first enclosure, the first virtual connect domain configured to virtualize one or more of the device bays in the first enclosure;

generate a new profile based on the deleted profile; and

assign the new profile to a second virtual connect domain in a second enclosure, the second virtual connect domain configured to virtualize one or more of the device bays in the second enclosure.

9. The CRM of claim 8 wherein the software causes the processor to present, to a user, a graphical user interface by which the user selects a first device bay in the first enclosure and a second device bay in the second enclosure.

10. The CRM of claim 8 wherein the software causes the processor to determine whether any of the deleting, generating and assigning steps failed and, if so, automatically restores the deleted profile back to the first virtual connect domain in the first enclosure.

11. The CRM of claim 8 wherein each profile includes at least one mapping of a media access control (MAC) address or a World Wide Name (WWN) to a different value.

12. A method, comprising:

deleting a profile from a first virtual connect domain in a first enclosure, the first virtual connect domain configured to virtualize one or more of the device bays in the first enclosure;

generating a new profile based on the deleted profile; and

assigning the new profile to a second virtual connect domain in a second enclosure, the second virtual connect domain configured to virtualize one or more of the device bays in the second enclosure.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising presenting, to a user, a graphical user interface by which the user can select a first device bay in the first enclosure and a second device bay in the second enclosure.

14. The method of claim 12 further comprising determining whether any of deleting, generating and assigning failed and, if so, automatically restoring the deleted profile back to the first virtual connect domain in the first enclosure.

15. The method of claim 12 wherein generating the new profile comprises modifying a mapping of a media access control (MAC) address or a World Wide Name (WWN).