Method and device for providing virtual machine management program for starting blade server

Abstract

The invention discloses a method and a device for providing a virtual machine management program for starting at least one blade server in a blade server system. The method comprises the following steps of: receiving a request for starting one of the at least one blade server; obtaining hardware characteristics of the blade server; determining the virtual machine management program corresponding to the hardware characteristics of the blade server according to the hardware characteristics of the blade server and the corresponding relationship between the hardware characteristics of the blade server and the virtual machine management program, wherein the determined virtual machine management program is stored in the blade server system; and remotely starting the blade server by using the determined virtual machine management program through a management bus. By the method, a hardware manufacturer easily provides support of the embedded virtual machine management program for a product of the hardware manufacturer; a user can select the suitable embedded virtual machine management program as required; and the safety and reliability in the starting process are guaranteed.

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technical field [0001] The present invention generally relates to the computer field, and specifically relates to a method and a device for providing a virtual machine management program for starting at least one blade server in a blade server system. Background technique [0002] Currently, server virtualization technology has been widely accepted by the IT industry as an advanced way for data centers to run various types of workloads. Server virtualization technology can combine multiple different, small-scale single-nature tasks into one server, thereby saving energy and enabling resource managers to manage resources flexibly. In server virtualization technology, a hypervisor is a software program located between server hardware and operating system software, which can provide hardware abstraction and resource distribution for the operating system, that is, virtualize server hardware. A server with a virtual machine program installed can install multiple different operat...

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Problems solved by technology

The embedded virtual machine management program is placed in the local hard disk of the server, which is the same as the usual virtual machine management program, which is very inconvenient for the update or patching of the embedded virtual machine management program; the embedded virtual machine management program is placed in the USB or CDROM Hypervisor, remote management is very inconvenient, and for high-density blade servers, access to USB and CDROM may also be very limited; and embedded hypervisors placed on remote servers need to support such as PXE Such remote boot protocols, but this solution requires the data center to install a fully functional, highly available PXE infrastructure, and requires a network connection between the server and the PXE infrastructure. In fact, not all data centers can achieve this conditions of

In addition, since PXE uses an external network connection to realize data transmission, there will also be problems with security stability during startup.

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