Bracewell & Patterson LLP
Appliance server with a drive partitioning scheme that accommodates application growth in size
Disclosed is a method and hard disk configuration for accommodating different sizes of applications during an automatic re-provisioning of an appliance server. The disk drive of the appliance server is partitioned with a system partition, a network operating system (NOS) partition, a float partition, and an images partition. The float partition is utilized to provide additional space to the NOS partition and the images partition, when required. A re-provisioning utility is provided, which initiates both a create image utility and an apply image utility, whereby an image file of a current application and associated operating system is created and a stored image file of a second application is installed on the appliance server. When the apply image utility is initiated, the NOS partition is dynamically extended into the float partition server if the second application requires more space than is provided in the NOS partition. Similarly, when an image file is stored in the images partition and the image file requires more space than is available in the images partition, the images partition is dynamically extended into the float partition.
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John Michael David Michael Frank C. Peter Thomas Thomas William Richard Alan William Paul Paul Brian Peter Gerard Timothy J. William W. Akram Simon Karl Ross
Brantly Green Harwood Donovan Lange Dayan Zeggert Tippett Chin Green Buchanan, Jr. Abboud Chu Shultz