Patent ID: 7895428
Filing Date: 2011-02-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of applying firmware updates to servers in a data center, the servers comprising one or more active servers and a standby server, each server mapped to separate remote computer boot storage, the method comprising: applying by a system management server the firmware updates to the standby server; selecting by the system management server an active server for firmware updating; powering off the selected active server by the system management server; remapping by the system management server the standby server to the remote computer boot storage for the selected active server; rebooting by the system management server the standby server from the remote computer boot storage for the selected active server, designating the standby server as an active server; remapping by the system management server the selected active server to the remote computer boot storage formerly mapped to the standby server; and rebooting by the system management server the selected active server from the remote boot storage formerly mapped to the standby server, designating the selected active server as a standby server.