公开(公告)号：US06898705B2

公开(公告)日：2005-05-24

申请号：US09870916

申请日：2001-05-31

申请人： Akram Abboud ,  John Michael Brantly ,  William W. Buchanan, Jr. ,  Peter Gerard Chin ,  Simon Chu ,  Richard Alan Dayan ,  Peter Thomas Donovan ,  David Michael Green ,  Timothy J. Green ,  Thomas William Lange ,  Gregory Brian Pruett ,  Karl Ross Shultz ,  Paul Brian Tippett ,  Andrew Hamilton Wray ,  William Paul Zeggert

发明人： Akram Abboud ,  John Michael Brantly ,  William W. Buchanan, Jr. ,  Peter Gerard Chin ,  Simon Chu ,  Richard Alan Dayan ,  Peter Thomas Donovan ,  David Michael Green ,  Timothy J. Green ,  Thomas William Lange ,  Gregory Brian Pruett ,  Karl Ross Shultz ,  Paul Brian Tippett ,  Andrew Hamilton Wray ,  William Paul Zeggert

IPC分类号： G06F9/445

CPC分类号： G06F9/4406

摘要： 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.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种在没有重大用户交互的情况下自动重新提供设备服务器的方法。 要用作设备服务器的服务器的磁盘驱动器被划分为至少三个分区，包括系统分区，网络操作系统分区和映像分区。 提供了一种重新配置实用程序，当用户激活时，该服务器将从服务器中删除本应用程序，并将其转发到网络上或第四个存储分区中的存储位置，并在服务器上安装另一个应用程序。 系统重新引导并重新配置，以提供新应用程序的全面操作。

公开(公告)号：US06636958B2

公开(公告)日：2003-10-21

申请号：US09907075

申请日：2001-07-17

申请人： Akram Abboud ,  John Michael Brantly ,  William W. Buchanan, Jr. ,  Peter Gerard Chin ,  Simon Chu ,  Richard Alan Dayan ,  Peter Thomas Donovan ,  David Michael Green ,  Timothy J. Green ,  Frank C. Harwood ,  Thomas William Lange ,  Karl Ross Shultz ,  Paul Brian Tippett ,  William Paul Zeggert

发明人： Akram Abboud ,  John Michael Brantly ,  William W. Buchanan, Jr. ,  Peter Gerard Chin ,  Simon Chu ,  Richard Alan Dayan ,  Peter Thomas Donovan ,  David Michael Green ,  Timothy J. Green ,  Frank C. Harwood ,  Thomas William Lange ,  Karl Ross Shultz ,  Paul Brian Tippett ,  William Paul Zeggert

IPC分类号： G06F1300

CPC分类号： G06F3/0601 ,  G06F2003/0697

摘要： 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.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于在设备服务器的自动重新供应期间适应不同大小的应用的方法和硬盘配置。 设备服务器的磁盘驱动器使用系统分区，网络操作系统（NOS）分区，浮动分区和映像分区进行分区。 当需要时，浮动分区用于向NOS分区和映像分区提供额外的空间。 提供重新配置实用程序，其启动创建映像实用程序和应用映像实用程序，由此创建当前应用程序和关联操作系统的映像文件，并且将第二应用程序的存储映像文件安装在设备服务器上 。 当应用映像实用程序启动时，如果第二个应用程序需要比NOS分区中提供的空间更多的空间，则NOS分区将动态扩展到浮动分区服务器。 类似地，当图像文件存储在图像分区中并且图像文件需要比图像分区中可用的更多的空间时，图像分区被动态地扩展到浮动分区。