Systems and methods for remote raid configuration in an embedded environment

摘要

Remote RAID system configuration may be implemented in an embedded and out-of-band manner using an information handling system configured, for example, as a RAID server. The remote RAID configuration may be implement, for example, on a RAID server system in the condition as it is supplied directly out-of-the-box to a user without requiring downloading of any additional software or firmware, without requiring presence of a management framework and plug in, and/or in a manner that is operating system (OS)-independent or that requires no OS to be present on the server. The RAID server may then be remotely reconfigured one or more times thereafter.

主权项

1. An information handling system configured as a RAID server, the RAID server comprising:
a RAID controller circuit for controlling the transfer of data to and from RAID storage memory that includes an array of individual storage disk drives; one or more processing devices; persistent storage embedded within the RAID server and coupled to the one or more processing devices, and to the RAID controller circuit; and an embedded remote RAID configuration framework present on the persistent storage, the remote RAID configuration framework being configured to:
receive a request for RAID configuration from a remote user, andprovide the received RAID configuration request to the one or more processing devices for processing; where the one or more processing devices are configured to:
process the received RAID configuration request in an out-of-band manner to create a RAID configuration job corresponding to the received request for RAID configuration, andthen execute the created RAID configuration job in an in-band manner.