Patent ID: 9244720
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: generating task definitions to configure respective ones of compute, storage, and network components of a converged infrastructure (CI) when invoked, each task definition including a task identifier (ID), one or more component configuration commands, and one or more task arguments through which one or more corresponding component configuration parameters are passed to corresponding ones of the one or more component commands; generating an ordered sequence of task identifiers (IDs) identifying corresponding ones of the task definitions that configure respective ones of the computer, storage and network components of the CI; and automatically invoking each of the task definitions by task ID according to the ordered sequence in order to configure the CI, wherein the automatically invoking includes providing the one or more component configuration commands and the corresponding one or more passed configuration parameters of each invoked task definition to the respective ones of the CI components, and wherein the automatically invoking further includes, for each invoked task definition: