David C Cannon

US Patent:

8464243, Jun 11, 2013

Filed:

Aug 21, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/545724

Inventors:

Jean X. Yu - Austin TX, US
James J. Myers - Paradise CA, US
Gergana V. Markova - Vail AZ, US
Thu Nguyen - Tucson AZ, US
David M. Cannon - Tucson AZ, US
Kenneth E. Hannigan - Tucson AZ, US
James P. Smith - Redwood City CA, US
Colin S. Dawson - Tucson AZ, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 9/44
G06F 9/445

US Classification:

717173, 717168, 717172, 717174, 717177, 717178

Abstract:

During execution of an existing scheduling computer program on a client node, an update computer program and a self-describing automatic installation package are downloaded to the client node from a logical depot node implemented on an existing management server. Therefore, advantageously, no physical depot node or other additional computing device is needed for the client node to update itself. Execution of the update computer program is spawned on the client node from the existing scheduling computer program. As such, the update computer program inherits root access to the client node and security credentials to the management server from the scheduling computer program—advantageously, then, a user does not have to perform any laborious configuration of the client node in order to update the node. The client node ultimately updates itself using the self-describing automatic installation package, which includes all the information needed for the client node to update itself.

US Patent:

20050114438, May 26, 2005

Filed:

Nov 24, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/720567

Inventors:

Justin Bendich - Austin TX, US
David Cannon - Tucson AZ, US
Alireza Daryan - Los Gatos CA, US
Brian Delaire - Fremont CA, US
Barry Eberly - San Jose CA, US
David Groves - San Jose CA, US
Srinivas Jandhyala - Austin TX, US
Michael Lamb - San Jose CA, US
Edward McCrickard - Austin TX, US
Raymond Swank - Campbell CA, US

International Classification:

G06F015/16
G06F012/00

US Classification:

709203000, 711170000, 711114000

Abstract:

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for provisioning storage resources according to a modeling policy. The modeling apparatus includes a monitoring module, a policy module, and a provisioning module. The monitoring module monitors the storage resources on the storage system. The policy module stores and maintains storage management, storage provisioning, and storage resource modeling policies. A user may access and specify these policies via a specification module. The provisioning module automatically provisions new storage resources, such as logical unit numbers (LUNs) according to the storage provisioning policies and modeling policies. The modeling policy defines a modeling strategy by which new storage resources are provisioned to include some or all of the attributes of a model storage resource.