Abstract: Example implementations relate to method and system for an action contextual grouping of servers for applying one or more actions to each group. The method includes analyzing data corresponding to a plurality of servers and a management system to generate a dataset including contextual data and server features. The method further includes obtaining a plurality of actions from the management system, and mapping each action to a plurality of criteria to generate an action criteria table. The plurality of criteria includes dynamic contextual criteria derived by the management system based on at least some of contextual data. The method further includes comparing the plurality of criteria for each action in the action criteria table to the contextual data and/or the server features for each server to tag a corresponding server to the action, and grouping the plurality of servers into a plurality of action contextual groups based on the tag.

Abstract: Techniques for on-demand remote diagnostics for hardware component/device failure and disk drive data recovery using embedded media are described. In one example embodiment, a hardware device failure event alert along with a unique ID and a hardware device configuration fingerprint is sent upon detecting a hardware component failure event associated with the hardware device in a datacenter to an image management framework. A recovery image associated with the hardware device failure event is then obtained using the unique ID and the hardware device configuration fingerprint. The recovery image is then stored in an embedded storage media associated with the failed hardware device. The embedded storage media is then configured as a bootable hardware device. The hardware component failure is then diagnosed using the stored recovery image and the bootable hardware device upon hardware device boot-up. Recovering from the hardware device failure based on diagnosing the hardware component failure.

Abstract: Techniques for on-demand remote diagnostics for hardware component/device failure and disk drive data recovery using embedded media are described. In one example embodiment, a hardware device failure event alert along with a unique ID and a hardware device configuration fingerprint is sent upon detecting a hardware component failure event associated with the hardware device in a datacenter to an image management framework. A recovery image associated with the hardware device failure event is then obtained using the unique ID and the hardware device configuration fingerprint. The recovery image is then stored in an embedded storage media associated with the failed hardware device. The embedded storage media is then configured as a bootable hardware device. The hardware component failure is then diagnosed using the stored recovery image and the bootable hardware device upon hardware device boot-up. Recovering from the hardware device failure based on diagnosing the hardware component failure.

Abstract: A source volume and a copy volume are stored, where the copy volume contains data that has been modified by writes to the source volume. In response to a write to a particular location and resource volume, a deduplication data structure is checked to determine whether the copy volume contains data that is the same as data in the particular location. In response to determining from the deduplication data structure that a copy volume contains the same data as the data in the particular location, a reference to the first location of the copy volume storing the same data is added instead of repeating storing of the data of the particular location in the copy volume.

Abstract: A source volume and a copy volume are stored, where the copy volume contains data that has been modified by writes to the source volume. In response to a write to a particular location and resource volume, a deduplication data structure is checked to determine whether the copy volume contains data that is the same as data in the particular location. In response to determining from the deduplication data structure that a copy volume contains the same data as the data in the particular location, a reference to the first location of the copy volume storing the same data is added instead of repeating storing of the data of the particular location in the copy volume.