Automatic appliance server re-provision/re-purposing method

Automatic appliance server re-provision/re-purposing method

Disclosed is a method for automatically re-provisioning an appliance server without significant user-interaction. The disk drive of a server to be utilized as an appliance server is partitioned into at least three partitions, including a systems partition, a network operating system partition, and a...

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Hauptverfasser: BRANTLY JOHN MICHAEL, CHIN PETER GERARD, ZEGGERT WILLIAM PAUL, WRAY ANDREW HAMILTON, DAYAN RICHARD ALAN, TIPPETT PAUL BRIAN, GREEN DAVID MICHAEL, LANGE THOMAS WILLIAM, PRUETT GREGORY BRIAN, CHU SIMON, DONOVAN PETER THOMAS, BUCHANAN WILLIAM W, GREEN TIMOTHY J, ABBOUD AKRAM, SHULTZ KARL ROSS
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Zusammenfassung:Disclosed is a method for automatically re-provisioning an appliance server without significant user-interaction. The disk drive of a server to be utilized as an appliance server is partitioned into at least three partitions, including a systems partition, a network operating system partition, and an images partition. A re-provisioning utility is provided, which, when activated by a user, removes the present application from the server and forwards it to a storage location on the network or in a fourth storage partition and installs another application on the server. The system is re-booted and re-configured to provide full operation of the new application.