Patent ID: 8010634

Claim:
A method comprising: displaying a drop-down list of one or more chassis, each chassis having one or more computing devices installed therein; selecting a chassis from the drop-down list of one or more chassis; after selecting the chassis from the drop-down list of one or more chassis, selecting a computing device from the computing devices installed in the chassis selected, separately from selecting the chassis from the drop-down list of one or more chassis, each computing device connected to one or more switches within the chassis; selecting a switch from the switches to which the computing device selected is connected, each switch connected to a storage-area network (SAN) encompassing one or more SAN storage devices; selecting a SAN storage device from the SAN storage devices connected to the switch selected; configuring network settings for the SAN storage device selected and/or the computing device selected, including configuring dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) settings for the computing device; configuring the SAN storage device selected for use by the computing device selected; and, selecting and deploying an operating system (OS) instance onto the SAN storage device selected for use by the computing device selected, wherein configuring the SAN storage device selected for use by the computing device selected comprises: determining whether the SAN storage device has been previously configured for use by the computing device; in response to determining that the SAN storage device has been previously configured for use by the computing device, displaying a volume of the SAN storage device, a logical unit of the volume of the SAN storage device, and a group binding the logical unit to the computing device; responsive to displaying the logical unit and the group, permitting a user to specifically and directly delete one or more of the logical unit and the group.