Patent ID: 8972546
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system for booting a server from a storage system, the system comprising: a plurality of servers each comprising at least one processor; a storage system communicating with the plurality of servers through a switch fabric and comprising a plurality of boot volumes each corresponding to one of the plurality of servers and each server booting from a corresponding boot volume that comprises all boot files required by the server for booting an operating system configured for the server and each other server of the plurality of servers cannot access and see the boot volume and each of the boot volumes is accessible by one server of the plurality of servers; the switch fabric comprising at least one partitionable switch, the switch fabric partitioning a separate communication pathway between each server and a corresponding boot volume, the separate communication pathway isolating boot traffic from non-boot traffic and preventing the transmission of the non-boot traffic from a data storage volume to the corresponding server, the switch fabric being switchable between allowing transmission of the boot traffic from the boot volume to the corresponding server on the separate communication pathway and preventing the transmission of the non-boot traffic from a data storage volume to the corresponding server and between allowing transmission of the non-boot traffic from the data storage volume to the corresponding server and preventing the transmission of the boot traffic from the boot volume to the corresponding server.