公开(公告)号：US10374877B2

公开(公告)日：2019-08-06

申请号：US15589972

申请日：2017-05-08

Applicant: NetApp, Inc.

Inventor： John Allen Patterson ,  Adam John Carter ,  Derek John Leslie

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W8/26 ,  H04L12/70 ,  H04L29/12

Abstract: An initial node deployment to form a cluster involves execution of program code to begin discovering other nodes on a LAN that will constitute the cluster. A node initially starts processes to obtain information to transition from an unconfigured state to a configured state. The nodes on the LAN can execute a discovery process that facilitates forming and configuring of the cluster, but the discovered information is confined within the LAN. This effectively blocks cluster configuration until someone locally connects to a host and retrieves a node address. To remove this obstacle, a node image can include program code to detect a compliant target device and extract to the target device an address of a discovered node that is valid for remote cluster configuration. The target device can then be used to convey the extracted address to allow commencement of cluster configuration remotely.

公开(公告)号：US20180324040A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-08

申请号：US15589972

申请日：2017-05-08

Applicant: NetApp. Inc.

Inventor： John Allen Patterson ,  Adam John Carter ,  Derek John Leslie

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W76/02

CPC classification number: H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/12 ,  H04L61/2015 ,  H04L2012/5685 ,  H04W8/005 ,  H04W8/265 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W84/18

Abstract: An initial node deployment to form a cluster involves execution of program code to begin discovering other nodes on a LAN that will constitute the cluster. A node initially starts processes to obtain information to transition from an unconfigured state to a configured state. The nodes on the LAN can execute a discovery process that facilitates forming and configuring of the cluster, but the discovered information is confined within the LAN. This effectively blocks cluster configuration until someone locally connects to a host and retrieves a node address. To remove this obstacle, a node image can include program code to detect a compliant target device and extract to the target device an address of a discovered node that is valid for remote cluster configuration. The target device can then be used to convey the extracted address to allow commencement of cluster configuration remotely.