Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for performing, by a processor of an information handling system, an inventory of updateable components of the information handling system. The system and method also includes retrieving an update path catalog for the updateable component and determining published updates between a current version and a target version of the updateable component according to the update path catalog. In addition, the system and method includes determining update recommendations based on the published updates between the current version and the target version. Finally, the system and method includes consolidating the update recommendations into the consolidated update recommendation according to a criterion.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for performing, by a processor of an information handling system, an inventory of updateable components of the information handling system. The system and method also includes retrieving an update path catalog for the updateable component and determining published updates between a current version and a target version of the updateable component according to the update path catalog. In addition, the system and method includes determining update recommendations based on the published updates between the current version and the target version. Finally, the system and method includes consolidating the update recommendations into the consolidated update recommendation according to a criterion.

Abstract: Systems and methods take into account the criticality of workloads, the warranty needs of workloads, the warranty available time, and the lifetime of a workload to provide an optimal solution that ensures servers are used to highest extent. The warranty health of servers is computed and categorized as critical, warning, or healthy based on the number of days remaining in warranty. Workloads are tagged as short-term or long-term workloads. Workloads are also classified based on criticality. The quarantine mode for proactive high availability of servers is divided into multiple modes, including a long-time, critical-workload quarantine mode, a critical-workload quarantine mode, and a standard quarantine mode. Servers that are in quarantine mode are assigned new workloads based upon the warranty health, workload term, and workload criticality.

Abstract: Systems and methods provide a logical-physical warranty that is applied to nodes at a logical grouping level, such as a cluster. A logical warranty is associated with the nodes in the logical group or cluster in addition to each node's original individual warranty. The logical warranty stretches the expiration dates for individual warranties to a worst-case date inside the logical group. Customers build, teardown and extend the clusters, and the logical warranty is assigned to nodes in the cluster. The logical warranty is associated with a cluster of a defined size, such as a number of nodes expected, which can be expanded in the future as needed. The logical warranty ensures that there is uniform Service Level Agreement (SLA) for the nodes in the cluster during the warranty lifetime thereby simplifying the support for the cluster.

Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for verification of software packages prior to deployment on an Information Handling System (IHS) are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include computer-executable instructions for identifying a version of a first software package that a second software package depends upon to operate on the client IHS, and updating a data structure to indicate the identified software package dependency to the first software package version. Later on, when the client IHS requests to be upgraded with the second software package, the instructions access the data structure to determine whether or not the first software package version meets the identified software package dependency, and either allow or inhibit upgrading of the second software package depending upon whether or not the first software package version meets the identified software package dependency.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for managing a plurality of edge devices based on a predicted network bandwidth utilization includes: identifying a plurality of management tasks associated with the plurality of edge devices, each of the plurality of management tasks associated with a priority; determining a management task of the plurality of management tasks to be assigned to an edge device of the plurality of edge devices; accessing a time series indicating the predicted network bandwidth utilization of the plurality of edge devices; generating a threshold value for the management task based on the time series, the threshold value corresponding to a percentage of the predicted network bandwidth utilization and including one or more available time slots; determining that the predicted network bandwidth utilization is less than the threshold value; and assigning the management task to the edge device.