Patent ID: 7127542

Claim:
An information handling system, comprising: a plurality of power supplies; at least one hot-pluggable node; a plurality of power switches for coupling the plurality of power supplies to the at least one hot-pluggable node; and control logic for controlling the plurality of power switches and detecting the at least one hot-pluggable node, wherein when a one of the at least one hot-pluggable node is detected by the control logic, at least one of the plurality of power supplies is isolated from other ones of the plurality of power supplies, and the isolated at least one of the plurality of power supplies is coupled to the detected one of the at least one hot-pluggable node, whereby when power to the one of the at least one hot-pluggable node has stabilized, the one of the at least one hot-pluggable node is coupled to the other ones of the plurality of power supplies.