Patent ID: 8793479

Claim:
A computer implemented method for enabling a plurality of appliances to be dynamically loaded onto a blade, said method comprising: during run-time on a blade, in response to receiving, at an appliance loading appliance, one or more sets of appliance loading instructions corresponding to one or more appliances, said appliance loading appliance performs the following: downloading said one or more appliances, each appliance of said one or more appliances having a capability different from each other; storing at a first set of locations on a data store said one or more appliances that are downloaded, each location of said first set of locations being different from each other; installing at a second location on said data store a first appliance of said one or more appliances that are stored, said first appliance having a first capability; booting on said blade, at said second location, said first appliance that is installed; and after said booting said first appliance at said second location, discontinuing, by an appliance loading appliance disabler, said run-time of said appliance loading appliance, such that said appliance loading appliance and an operating system of said appliance loading appliance is lying dormant while said first appliance continues to run on said blade.