Patent ID: 8832369

Claim:
An information handling system configured as a RAID server, the RAID server comprising: a RAID controller circuit for controlling the transfer of data to and from RAID storage memory that includes an array of individual storage disk drives; one or more processing devices; persistent storage embedded within the RAID server and coupled to the one or more processing devices, and to the RAID controller circuit; and an embedded remote RAID configuration framework present on the persistent storage, the remote RAID configuration framework being configured to: receive a request for RAID configuration from a remote user, and provide the received RAID configuration request to the one or more processing devices for processing; where the one or more processing devices are configured to: process the received RAID configuration request in an out-of-band manner to create a RAID configuration job corresponding to the received request for RAID configuration, and then execute the created RAID configuration job in an in-band manner.