Patent ID: 11900126
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 5:
6. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code, which when executed by a computer processor enables the computer processor to perform a method for managing information handling systems, the method comprising:
initiating, by a stackable system role (SSR) manager of an information handling system (IHS) of the information handling systems, a boot sequence;
making a first determination that the boot sequence does not specify a SSR of the information handling system;
based on the first determination:
performing a hardware evaluation to identify available hardware resources of the information handling system;
obtaining a hardware resource inventory based on the available hardware resources;
applying a hardware resource function to the hardware resource inventory to determine a SSR for the information handling system,
wherein the SSR comprises: a worker setting, a storage setting, a manage setting, an external access setting, and a SSR uncertainty field,
wherein the SSR is associated with a first ratio-based bucket,
wherein the first ratio-based bucket refers to a set of predetermined SSRs and a desired number of information handling systems to be applied to each of the predetermined SSRs in an information handling system environment,
wherein determining the SSR is based on:
an availability of assignment of the information handling system in the first ratio-based bucket, and
the SSR uncertainty field,

wherein the SSR comprises at least a four-bit data item,
wherein at least one bit in the at least four-bit data item corresponds to one of the worker setting, the storage setting, the manage setting, and the external access setting; and

continuing the boot sequence using the SSR.