Method and apparatus for secure scan of data storage device from remote server

HM Khosravi, DA Edwards, VR Gokulrangan… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND The data residing on data storage devices. Such as hard disk drives and
Solid state drives, by way of example, is subject to corruption and attack by malicious …

Automatically and securely configuring and updating virtual machines

M Natchadalingam, P Patel - US Patent 8,578,376, 2013 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method and program product for automatically and securely updating
software on a virtual machine (VM). AVM coming online in a virtualized server is detected. A …

Secure booting of virtualization managers

AN Liguori, B Wasserstrom - US Patent 10,318,737, 2019 - Google Patents
A multi-phase boot operation of a virtualization manager at a virtualization host is initiated at
an offload card. In a first phase of the boot, a security key stored in a tamper-resistant …

Workload management for heterogeneous hosts in a computing system environment

KY Srinivasan - US Patent 8,966,475, 2015 - Google Patents
By applying the principles and teachings associated with managing workloads in a
computing system environment with heterogeneous host devices, the foregoing and other …

System and method for routing traffic between distinct infiniband subnets based on fat-tree routing

B Bogdanski, BD Johnsen - US Patent 9,264,382, 2016 - Google Patents
A system and method can rout traffic between distinct subnets in a network environment. A
router that connects the distinct subnets, such as InfiniBand (IB) subnets, can receive a list of …

System and method for routing traffic between distinct InfiniBand subnets based on source routing

B Bogdanski, BD Johnsen - US Patent 9,231,888, 2016 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A system and method can rout traffic between distinct subnets in a network
environment. A router that connects the distinct subnets, such as InfiniBand (IB) subnets, can …

Method and system for firmware upgrade of a storage subsystem hosted in a storage virtualization environment

A Banerjee, PR Venkatesha, J Thomas - US Patent 8,745,614, 2014 - Google Patents
US8745614B2 - Method and system for firmware upgrade of a storage subsystem hosted in a
storage virtualization environment - Google Patents US8745614B2 - Method and system for …

Transparent update of adapter firmware for self-virtualizing input/output device

WJ Armstrong, CS Graham, AT Koch, KA Lucke… - US Patent …, 2013 - Google Patents
A firmware update process for a self-virtualizing IO resource such as an SRIOV adapter is
incorporated into a platform firmware update process to systematically update the resource …

In-band hypervisor-managed firmware updates

E Kuzmack, R Kalyanaraman, X Qian - US Patent 8,875,124, 2014 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A Software update manager running on an information han dling system
over a type 1 hypervisor operating system retrieves a virtual firmware update through a …

System and method for supporting sub-subnet in an infiniband (IB) network

BD Johnsen, L Holen, LP Huse, O Tørudbakken… - US Patent …, 2015 - Google Patents
A system and method can support multiple domains in an InfiniBand (IB) fabric. The IB fabric
can include one or more subnets, wherein each said subnet contains one or more switch …