US 12,156,367 B2
Dynamic assignment of storage devices responsive to movement of blade servers among slots of a chassis of a modular server
Parminder Singh Sethi, Ludhiana (IN); Suren Kumar, Bangalore (IN); and Veena Ramarao, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/133,064.
Prior Publication US 2024/0349443 A1, Oct. 17, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 9/00 (2018.01); G06F 9/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/4401 (2018.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); H05K 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC H05K 7/1498 (2013.01) [G06F 9/4411 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory;
the at least one processing device being configured:
to identify, for a modular server comprising a chassis with a plurality of slots, one or more blade servers installed in a first subset of the plurality of slots of the chassis and one or more storage servers installed in a second subset of the plurality of slots of the chassis;
to determine, for the modular server, assignment of storage devices of the one or more storage servers installed in the second subset of the plurality of slots of the chassis to respective ones of the first subset of the plurality of slots of the chassis in which the one or more blade servers are installed;
to detect movement of a given one of the one or more blade servers from a first slot to a second slot in the first subset of the plurality of slots;
to validate a configuration of the given blade server moved from the first slot to the second slot; and
to dynamically reassign at least a subset of the storage devices from the first slot to the second slot responsive to validating the configuration of the given blade server moved from the first slot to the second slot.