Patent ID: 8880766

Claim:
A system comprising: a chassis configured to receive a plurality of modular information handling systems and a plurality of modular information handling resources; one or more chassis management controllers housed in the chassis and configured to: receive a user indication of a user desire to physically remove a modular information handling resource from the chassis; determine whether the modular information handling resource is shared or nonshared with respect to modular information handling systems present in the chassis; determine whether the modular information handling systems present in the chassis and associated with the modular information handling resource are powered on; receive at least one response to one query to the user regarding at least one user preference regarding removal of the modular information handling resource; and determine if the information handling resource may be safely removed from the chassis based at least on: (i) the determination of whether the information handling system resource is shared or nonshared, (ii) the determination of whether the modular information handling systems present in the chassis and associated with the modular information handling resource are powered on, and (iii) the at least one response.