US 11,675,625 B2
Thin provisioning of resources using SCPS and a bidding system
William Price Dawkins, Lakeway, TX (US); Robert Wayne Hormuth, Cedar Park, TX (US); Walter A. O'Brien, III, Westborough, MA (US); Yossef Saad, Ganei Tikva (IL); Mukund P. Khatri, Austin, TX (US); Gaurav Chawla, Austin, TX (US); Mark Steven Sanders, Roanoke, VA (US); Elie Antoun Jreij, Pflugerville, TX (US); and Jimmy Doyle Pike, Georgetown, TX (US)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed on Dec. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/116,988.
Prior Publication US 2022/0179698 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 9/505 (2013.01) [G06F 9/5022 (2013.01); G06F 9/5044 (2013.01); G06F 9/5077 (2013.01); G06F 11/3051 (2013.01); G06F 2209/508 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system control processor manager comprising hardware and programmed to:
obtain a composition request for a composed information handling system of composed information handling systems, wherein the composition request comprises an operational instances requirement; and
initially allocate only a minimum number of instances of a resource based on the operational instances requirement to the composed information handling system,
wherein initially allocating the resource comprises:
sending a bid request to a system control processor of each of a set of information handling systems; and
obtaining at least a bid response from a first information handling system of the set of information handling systems, wherein the at least the bid response specifies that the first information handling system offers the minimum number of instances of the resource,
wherein at least one of the minimum number of instances of the resource is provided by the first information handling system, wherein the first information handling system is operatively connected to the system control processor manager,
wherein the system control processor on the first information handling system presents abstracted instances of the minimum number of instances of the resource as bare metal resources to a compute resource set of the first information handling system.