A method for controlling at least one setting of a basic input output system (BIOS) of at least one automated transaction machine (ATM) can include provisioning features of an active management technology system of a first computing device associated with an ATM. The method can also include establishing an initial trust between the first computing device and a second computing device that is remote from the first computing device, over a serial-over-lan (SOL) connection that is a feature of the active management technology system. The method can also include configuring the setting of the BIOS of the first computing device and storing a schedule for changing the setting of the BIOS. The method can also include reconfiguring the setting of the BIOS in response to the schedule stored on the database over the SOL.

A pre-boot screen can be accessed remotely. A remote access BIOS module can be employed on a computing system to logically split a GPU into a local screen rendering part and a remote access part and to logically split GPU memory into a local screen memory region and a remote access memory region. The remote access part of the GPU can access a pre-boot screen that has been copied to the remote access memory region and create network packets with payloads containing the pre-boot screen. The remote access part can then cause the network packets to be transferred to a NIC for delivery to a remote computing system. A remote access application on the remote computing system can extract and display the pre-boot screen. The remote access application can relay any user input back to the remote access BIOS module which can then cause the user input to be implemented locally.

This disclosure describes systems, devices, and techniques for migrating virtualized resources from outdated hosts during requested reboots of the virtualized resources, in order to update the outdated hosts. In an example method, a pending reboot a virtualized resource occupying a first host can be identified. At least one component of the first host may be determined to be outdated. In response to identifying the pending reboot and determining that the at least one component is outdated, the virtualized resource may be migrated to a second host. The first host may update the at least one component.

Example implementations relate to a logical rack controller. In an example, a logical rack controller receives an inventory of a plurality of physical computing racks. The logical rack controller receives a logical rack definition that indicates selected physical infrastructure from among the inventory to form a logical rack. The logical rack controller validates the logical rack definition by verifying network connectivity of the selected physical infrastructure. After validation of the logical rack definition, the logical rack controller provides, to a provisioning controller, an interface to the logical rack. The provisioning controller can utilize the interface to access the logical rack.

A blade server with an apparatus for configuring the blade server is disclosed. the blade server includes at least one data processor and the data processor is configured to determine presence of a response file at a remote management module, upon deployment of the blade server, in response to the response file being present, receive the response file from the remote management module, and retrieve an ISO of a desired operating system for the blade server in accordance with data stored in the response file, in order to install the desired operating system for the blade server.

A network device may obtain information concerning a virtual chassis that indicates that the network device and an additional network device are to be included in the virtual chassis. The network device may determine, based on the information concerning the virtual chassis, that the network device is connected to the additional network device, wherein the network device is connected to the additional network device via a link between a network interface of the network device and a network interface of the additional network device. The network device may cause the network interface of the network device to be converted to a virtual chassis interface and the network interface of the additional network device to be converted to a virtual chassis interface to enable the network device and the additional network device to be included in the virtual chassis to allow bootstrapping of the virtual chassis as a single logical device.

A storage system (400) includes a storage processor (420-1) such as a storage card resident in a host server (410-1) and coupled to the storage device (450-1). The storage processor (420-1) may be configured to create a virtual volume (428-1), store content derived from an image (492) downloaded from a URL storage corresponding to the virtual volume (428-1), and present the virtual volume (428-1) to the host server as a boot LUN. A management infrastructure (480) can be used to create a library (490) of images (492, 494) corresponding to different storage system characteristics and used to selected which URL is provided to the storage processor (420-1).

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for peer booting server nodes on an edge zone. For example, an edge zone may include data plane devices capable of hosting virtual machines and other cloud-based services thereon that provide low-latency services to customers of a cloud computing system. Systems described herein implement an operating system (OS) provisioning system that, in combination with a peer booting system on a server node, facilitates instantiation of an OS on the server node as well as enabling the server node to act as an OS provider service to other server nodes on the edge zone. The systems disclosed herein facilitate fast installation of OS services without overutilizing limited bandwidth resources of a virtual network that connects the server nodes with control plane devices remotely maintained at a datacenter.

An information handling system may include at least one processor; and a computer-readable medium having instructions thereon that are executable by the at least one processor for: prior to initialization of an operating system, executing a pre-boot environment; and within the pre-boot environment, downloading a universal filesystem driver from a first back-end server and loading the universal filesystem driver in the pre-boot environment, wherein the universal filesystem driver is a single pre-boot firmware volume that comprises drivers for a plurality of different filesystems.

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and apparatuses where a controller can automatically manage a physical infrastructure of a computer system based on a plurality of system rules, a system state for the computer system, and a plurality of templates. Techniques for automatically adding resources such as computer, storage, and/or networking resources to the computer system are described. Also described are techniques for automatically deploying applications and services on such resources. These techniques provide a scalable computer system that can serve as a turnkey scalable private cloud.