Patents by Inventor Edward F. Marchand

Edward F. Marchand has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Storage system with boot appliance for improving reliability/availability/serviceability in high density server environments
    Patent number: 8904158
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a boot appliance for a data storage system. The boot appliance is a self-contained, pre-configured device that serves as a boot device for multiple servers. The boot appliance contains multiple hard drives which are configured into one or more RAID volumes. Each volume is divided into multiple partitions, with each partition serving as the boot drive for any server connected to it. The boot appliance provides its own environmental controls and Ethernet connection which may be used for providing alerts regarding the health of the components of the boot appliance and/or data storage system to a monitoring system, such as a network management system. The boot appliance may provide a boot drive and operating system image to multiple servers at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: LSI Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory L. Huff, Timothy E. Hoglund, Brad D. Besmer, Mark J. Jander, Edward F. Marchand, Jason C. McGinley
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONSOLIDATING BOOT DRIVES AND IMPROVING RELIABILITY/AVAILABILITY/SERVICEABILITY IN HIGH DENSITY SERVER ENVIRONMENTS
    Publication number: 20130061029
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a boot appliance for a data storage system. The boot appliance is a self-contained, pre-configured device that serves as a boot device for multiple servers. The boot appliance contains multiple hard drives which are configured into one or more RAID volumes. Each volume is divided into multiple partitions, with each partition serving as the boot drive for any server connected to it. The boot appliance provides its own environmental controls and Ethernet connection which may be used for providing alerts regarding the health of the components of the boot appliance and/or data storage system to a monitoring system, such as a network management system. The boot appliance may provide a boot drive and operating system image to multiple servers at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: LSI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Gregory L. Huff, Timothy E. Hoglund, Brad D. Besmer, Mark J. Jander, Edward F. Marchand, Jason C. McGinley