Patent ID: 8825806
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: enabling a user to select a chassis from a list of one or more chassis using a graphical user interface (GUI), each chassis having one or more computing devices installed therein; after the user has selected the chassis, selecting a computing device from the computing devices installed in the chassis selected, each computing device connected to one or more switches within the chassis; after the computing device has been selected, selecting within the GUI a switch from the switches to which the computing device selected is connected, each switch connected to a storage-area network (SAN) encompassing one or more SAN storage devices, where just the switches to which the computing device selected is connected are displayed within the GUI, each switch connected to one SAN, the storage devices of each SAN connected to one switch; after the switch has been selected, selecting a SAN storage device from the SAN storage devices connected to the switch selected; after the SAN storage device has been selected, configuring network settings of one or more of the SAN storage devices selected for use by the computing device selected; after the networking settings have been selected, configuring the SAN storage device selected for use by the computing device selected; and, after the SAN storage device has been configured, selecting and deploying an operating system (OS) instance onto the SAN storage device selected for use by the computing device selected, wherein the method from enabling the user to select the chassis through and to selecting and deploying the OS instance onto the SAN storage device provides a programmatic manner by which each of the computing device and the SAN storage device is selected and configured for use with one another, such that the user is stepped through selection of the computing device and the SAN storage device via the GUI, and such that configuration of the computing device and the SAN storage device are automatically performed.