US 12,008,415 B2
Method and system for a semi-democratic determination of stackable system roles in an information handling system environment
Lucas Avery Wilson, Cedar Park, TX (US); and Dharmesh M. Patel, Round Rock, TX (US)
Assigned to DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Hopkinton, MA (US)
Filed on Apr. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/238,919.
Prior Publication US 2022/0342717 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 9/5077 (2013.01) [G06F 9/468 (2013.01); G06F 9/5044 (2013.01); G06F 9/542 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
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1. A method for managing a set of information handling systems, the method comprising:
obtaining, by a committee-leading information handling system of the set of information handling systems, a set of hardware resource information entries from a set of information handling systems in a first committee;
performing a stackable system role (SSR) entry analysis based on the set of hardware resource information entries, wherein the SSR entry analysis comprises analyzing hardware resources specified in the set of hardware resource information entries to obtain a mapping of capabilities of each of the set of information handling systems in the first committee;
determining, based on the mapping of capabilities and based on identified needs of an information handling system environment, a set of SSRs, wherein each SSR in the set of SSRs corresponds to an information handling system in the set of information handling systems in the first committee;
providing the set of SSRs to a leading information handling system;
obtaining a response from the leading information handling system, wherein the response comprises a second set of SSRs, and wherein at least one SSR of the second set of SSRs is different from a corresponding SSR of the set of SSRs; and
based on the response, executing a SSR instruction on the committee-leading information handling system.