Patent ID: 8938736
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for providing management redundancy in an information handling system, comprising: loading, by a hypervisor executing on a processor of a management controller, a first guest operating system; loading, by the hypervisor, a second guest operating system; loading, by the first guest operating system, one or more first management applications for managing one or more information handling resources communicatively coupled to the management controller; loading, by the second guest operating system, one or more second management applications for managing the one or more information handling resources communicatively coupled to the management controller; loading, by the second guest operating system, one or more redundancy monitoring applications for monitoring operability of the first guest operating system and the second guest operating system; after loading the one or more second management applications, sleeping, by the second guest operating system, the one or more second management applications; monitoring, by the one or more redundancy monitoring applications, the operability of the first guest operating system; waking, by the second guest operating system, the one or more second management applications, in response to an occurrence of an event related to the first guest operating system; providing to the second guest operating system, by the hypervisor, access to a memory where an operational parameter of the first guest operating system is stored; and resetting, by the second quest operating system, the first quest operating system, in response to the occurrence of the event.