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System and method for host-based in-band/side-band firmware upgrades supporting I/O devices

A local file system and host technology, applied in the field of computer systems

Active Publication Date: 2019-05-07
ORACLE INT CORP
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[0004] With the introduction of larger cloud computing architectures, the performance and management bottlenecks associated with traditional networking and storage have become significant issues

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[0023] The invention is illustrated by way of example and not limitation in the accompanying drawings, in which like reference numerals indicate similar elements. It should be noted that in this disclosure, references to "one" or "some" embodiments are not necessarily to the same embodiment, such references mean at least one.

[0024] The following description of the invention utilizes an Infiniband (IB) network as an example of a high performance network. It will be obvious to a person skilled in the art that other kinds of high performance networks can be used without limitation.

[0025] Described herein are systems and methods capable of supporting controlled and secure firmware upgrades in a middleware machine environment.

[0026] InfiniBand (IB) Architecture

[0027] The IB architecture is a serial point-to-point technology. Each IB network, or subnet, may include a group of hosts interconnected by switches and point-to-point links. A single subnet can be scaled to ...

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Abstract

Systems and methods can support controlled and secure firmware upgrades in middleware machine environments. The system may provide a boot image of an operating system (OS) in a host node connected to a shared resource, such as a network fabric, through input / output (I / O) devices. The boot image is capable of receiving at least one of a firmware image and a firmware update from a host node and upgrading firmware in an I / O device associated with the host node. Furthermore, host-based firmware upgrades can be based on special boot images that are blocked from accessing local information on the host node, or normal boot images that are blocked from controlling I / O devices.

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[0001] Copyright Notice [0002] Portions of the disclosure in this patent document contain copyrighted material. The copyright owner has no objection to anyone's photocopying of the patent document or the patent disclosure as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent file or file, but reserves all copyright otherwise. technical field [0003] The present invention relates to computer systems, and more particularly to middleware machine environments. Background technique [0004] With the introduction of larger cloud computing architectures, the performance and management bottlenecks associated with traditional networking and storage have become significant issues. Deployment of InfiniBand (IB) technology has increased as the foundation of cloud computing fabrics. This is the general area that embodiments of the present invention are intended to address. Contents of the invention [0005] Described herein are systems and methods capable of supporting controll...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F21/57
CPCG06F21/572G06F21/575G06F8/654G06F21/00G06F21/57G06F21/629
Inventor B·D·约翰森M·P·梅赫阿德
Owner ORACLE INT CORP