Peter T Donovan

US Patent:

6636958, Oct 21, 2003

Filed:

Jul 17, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/907075

Inventors:

Akram Abboud - Durham NC
John Michael Brantly - Raleigh NC
Peter Gerard Chin - Raleigh NC
Simon Chu - Chapel Hill NC
Richard Alan Dayan - Wake Forest NC
Peter Thomas Donovan - Apex NC
David Michael Green - Hillsborough NC
Timothy J. Green - Hillsborough NC
Frank C. Harwood - Raleigh NC
Thomas William Lange - Cary NC
Karl Ross Shultz - Cary NC
Paul Brian Tippett - Durham NC
William Paul Zeggert - Morrisville NC

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1300

US Classification:

711173, 711153

Abstract:

Disclosed is a method and hard disk configuration for accommodating different sizes of applications during an automatic re-provisioning of an appliance server. The disk drive of the appliance server is partitioned with a system partition, a network operating system (NOS) partition, a float partition, and an images partition. The float partition is utilized to provide additional space to the NOS partition and the images partition, when required. A re-provisioning utility is provided, which initiates both a create image utility and an apply image utility, whereby an image file of a current application and associated operating system is created and a stored image file of a second application is installed on the appliance server. When the apply image utility is initiated, the NOS partition is dynamically extended into the float partition server if the second application requires more space than is provided in the NOS partition. Similarly, when an image file is stored in the images partition and the image file requires more space than is available in the images partition, the images partition is dynamically extended into the float partition.

US Patent:

6898705, May 24, 2005

Filed:

May 31, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/870916

Inventors:

Akram Abboud - Durham NC, US
John Michael Brantly - Raleigh NC, US
Peter Gerard Chin - Raleigh NC, US
Simon Chu - Chapel Hill NC, US
Richard Alan Dayan - Wake Forest NC, US
Peter Thomas Donovan - Apex NC, US
David Michael Green - Hillsborough NC, US
Timothy J. Green - Hillsborough NC, US
Thomas William Lange - Cary NC, US
Gregory Brian Pruett - Raleigh NC, US
Karl Ross Shultz - Cary NC, US
Paul Brian Tippett - Durham NC, US
Andrew Hamilton Wray - Hillsborough NC, US
William Paul Zeggert - Morrisville NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F009/445

US Classification:

713100, 713 1, 713 2, 717175, 717176, 711173, 714 3, 714 5, 714 6, 714 8, 709215, 709221

Abstract:

Disclosed is a method for automatically re-provisioning an appliance server without significant user-interaction. The disk drive of a server to be utilized as an appliance server is partitioned into at least three partitions, including a systems partition, a network operating system partition, and an images partition. A re-provisioning utility is provided, which, when activated by a user, removes the present application from the server and forwards it to a storage location on the network or in a fourth storage partition and installs another application on the server. The system is re-booted and re-configured to provide full operation of the new application.

US Patent:

7194659, Mar 20, 2007

Filed:

Dec 10, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/315807

Inventors:

Simon C. Chu - Chapel Hill NC, US
Peter Thomas Donovan - Cary NC, US
Benjamin Russell Grimes - Zebulon NC, US
Gregory Brian Pruett - Raleigh NC, US
David B. Rhoades - Raleigh NC, US
Paul Brian Tippet - Durham NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 11/00

US Classification:

714 36

Abstract:

Aspects for detection and correction of entrance into an improper master boot record (MBR) state in a computer system are described. The aspects include providing a proxy MBR at a predetermined location on a storage device of a computer system to provide a proxy MBR. The proxy MBR is then utilized during a restart operation. An original MBR maintained at an original location on the storage device is then utilized during a reboot operation when the utilization of the proxy MBR is unsuccessful.

US Patent:

7350068, Mar 25, 2008

Filed:

Apr 22, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/112132

Inventors:

Jeffrey Wayne Anderson - Fayetteville NC, US
Simon Chu - Chapel Hill NC, US
Richard Alan Dayan - Raleigh NC, US
Peter Thomas Donovan - Cary NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/177
G06F 15/16

US Classification:

713 2, 719219, 719220

Abstract:

A system remotely boots a plurality of server blades in a blade center to update each blade. A temporary network is created to provide an out-of-band communication channel between a management module and the plurality of server blades. The management module receives and saves the original boot sequence for each server blade and alters each boot sequence such that each server blade begins with a network boot. After receiving an initial transmission over the network containing server blade boot instructions and storing the boot instructions in a temporary boot server, subsequent server blade boot requests from the network are intercepted and the stored boot instructions are re-routed from the temporary boot server to each of the remaining blades in the blade server thus removing the need for repeated boot packet transmission over the network.

US Patent:

7574534, Aug 11, 2009

Filed:

May 23, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/419988

Inventors:

Joseph E. Bolan - Cary NC, US
Robert K. Christner - Raleigh NC, US
Simon C. Chu - Chapel Hill NC, US
Peter T. Donovan - Cary NC, US
Eric R. Kern - Chapel Hill NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 3/00
G06F 9/00

US Classification:

710 15, 710 8, 710 10, 713 1, 713 2

Abstract:

Identifying an operating system running on a computer system. In one aspect of the invention, an enumeration pattern is collected, the enumeration pattern describing an enumeration of a device that has been performed between the device and the operating system running on a host computer system. The type of the operating system running on the host computer system is identified based on the collected enumeration pattern.

US Patent:

20210037466, Feb 4, 2021

Filed:

Jul 30, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/525767

Inventors:

- Armonk NY, US
Malcolm S. Allen-Ware - Tucson AZ, US
Charles Lefurgy - Austin TX, US
Peter Donovan - Cary NC, US
Balaji Ramamoorthy - Plainville MA, US
David Ohlemacher - Merrimack NH, US

International Classification:

H04W 52/02
G06F 1/28
G06F 1/3209
G06F 9/54

Abstract:

Controlling server power usage in a data center is provided. Power usage among a plurality of server racks in active mode processing a set of workloads in the data center is managed. It is detected that a new server rack in standby mode is being added to the plurality of server racks. It is ensured that the new server rack in the standby mode is properly controlled and monitored prior to transitioning the new server rack to the active mode. It is determined whether power safety criteria are met to safely join the new server rack to the plurality of server racks prior to transitioning the new server rack from the standby mode to the active mode. The new server rack is transitioned to the active mode in without exceeding a power budget for the plurality of server racks in response to determining that the power safety criteria are met.