Patent ID: 9304782
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: storing one or more boot images in non-volatile storage of a switching controller in a network computing device, the network computing device including a first server, a switch module, and the switching controller, wherein the switch module provides, to the first server, access to a network, wherein the switching controller is in local communication with the switch module; receiving, at the switching controller, a redirection service request for a boot image server; responding, by the switching controller, to the redirection service request with an address of the switching controller; receiving a request at the switching controller from the first server for a boot image for booting the first server; determining if the boot image is available from the non-volatile storage in the switching controller; forwarding the request to a second server when the boot image is absent from the non-volatile storage; and sending the boot image to the first server from the switching controller when the boot image is available from the non-volatile storage, wherein the boot image is sent without accessing the network outside of the network computing device, wherein operations of the method are executed by a processor.