Abstract: An improved technique for managing an electronic system suitable for providing users with information technology resources, such as compute, storage, and network resources, builds an object model instance of data center components to represent the data center components as a unified entity, which administrators can access as a single-point source for information about the components. In some examples, the object model instance also serves as a single-point for management control of the electronic system. The object model instance is populated with information obtained from a discovery process, where components are queried to report their actual configuration and state, as well as physical and logical relationships among them.

Abstract: Methods and/or systems for performing workload analysis within an arrangement of interconnected computing devices, such as a converged infrastructure, are disclosed. A prediction system may generate a workload associated with physical and/or logical components of the converged infrastructure that are utilized to execute a client resource. The prediction system may monitor the utilization behavior of the various logical and/or physical components associated with the workload over a particular period of time to generate a workload profile. Subsequently, the prediction system may execute a prediction workload analysis algorithm that accesses the workload profile to identify optimal physical resources in the converged infrastructure that may be available to execute other workloads.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for implementing role-based access control (RBAC) are disclosed. According to one method, the method includes authenticating a user for implementing RBAC across multiple components associated with one or more converged infrastructure systems, receiving, from the user, RBAC related information for implementing RBAC across the multiple components associated with the one or more converged infrastructure systems, and implementing, using the RBAC related information, RBAC across the multiple components associated with the one or more converged infrastructure systems.

Abstract: Methods and/or systems for performing workload analysis within an arrangement of interconnected computing devices, such as a converged infrastructure, are disclosed. A prediction system may generate a workload associated with physical and/or logical components of the converged infrastructure that are utilized to execute a client resource. The prediction system may monitor the utilization behavior of the various logical and/or physical components associated with the workload over a particular period of time to generate a workload profile. Subsequently, the prediction system may execute a prediction workload analysis algorithm that accesses the workload profile to identify optimal physical resources in the converged infrastructure that may be available to execute other workloads.

Abstract: An improved technique for managing an electronic system suitable for providing users with information technology resources, such as compute, storage, and network resources, builds an object model instance of data center components to represent the data center components as a unified entity, which administrators can access as a single-point source for information about the components. In some examples, the object model instance also serves as a single-point for management control of the electronic system. The object model instance is populated with information obtained from a discovery process, where components are queried to report their actual configuration and state, as well as physical and logical relationships among them.

Abstract: A self-testing storage system apparatus and method uses pre-recorded test sequences at a designated location within a storage system, so that a user interface task, residing in the controller of the storage system responds to a signal to initiate testing sent through a user interface device coupled to the controller. The user interface task causes the test sequences to be transferred into the controller. The user interface task also disables communications through the host interface, determines from parameters sent over the user interface which tests are to be run, and causes them to be executed as manufacturing self-test tasks from within the controller, using the controller's microprocessor and memory. Depending upon the parameters provided through the user interface device, each manufacturing self-test task executes sequential and random read/write/compare tests, data or command saturation tests, RAID evaluation tests, or other tests within the storage system.