Patent ID: 8166166

Claim:
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform operations for distributing configuration parameters to storage devices, the operations comprising: communicating with a first Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (“DHCP”) server configured to process DHCP messages; receiving one or more DHCP responses from the first DHCP server, the one or more DHCP responses comprising DHCP configuration parameters, and an indication of a second DHCP server designated for non-DHCP configuration parameters communication; directing communications regarding non-DHCP configuration parameters to the second DHCP server in response to receiving the indication of the second DHCP server from the first DHCP server, wherein the non-DHCP configuration parameters are Internet Small Computer System Interface (“iSCSI”) parameters; receiving a response, in a DHCP message, comprising non-DHCP configuration parameters for a primary storage device from the second DHCP server; and providing the non-DHCP configuration parameters to the primary storage device.