US 11,757,713 B1
Plug and play mechanism for adding nodes to a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) cluster
Rui Jiang, Shanghai (CN); Kui Hu, Shanghai (CN); and Bruce Bin Hu, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Oct. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/969,504.
Claims priority of application No. 202211205139.0 (CN), filed on Sep. 29, 2022.
Int. Cl. H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 41/0806 (2022.01); H04L 41/12 (2022.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); H04L 61/5007 (2022.01); H04L 61/4511 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/0809 (2013.01) [H04L 41/12 (2013.01); H04L 61/4511 (2022.05); H04L 61/5007 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
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1. A plug and play method for expanding a cluster comprised of a cluster manager and a plurality of configured nodes connected to a Layer 2 discovery network, the method comprising:
detecting a new node connecting to the cluster, wherein the new node is provisioned with a TCP/IP virtual adapter (TVA) configured to perform TVA operations including:
joining the Layer 2 discovery network; and
invoking an agent to:
collect TVA stack information; and
broadcast the TVA stack information to the Layer 2 discovery network;
responsive to detecting TVA stack information broadcast over the Layer 2 discovery network by the new node, storing the TVA stack information to a node pool store; and
configuring the new node based, at least in part, on the TVA stack information and information in the node pool store corresponding to one or more of the configured nodes.