Appliance server configuration recovery for a highly optimized server configuration profile image

摘要

A server includes a non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM), mechanical switches and a read only memory (ROM). The ROM includes code containing highly optimized server configuration profile images, code to detect a predetermined state of the NVRAM, code to reboot the server in response to detecting the predetermined state of the NVRAM, code to read state information from the mechanical switches following the reboot and code to write a highly optimized server configuration profile image to the NVRAM based on the state information. Using a utility, the server can be dynamically configured with a highly optimized server configuration profile image. The utility includes code to generate the profile image based on a current configuration of the server, code to store the profile image in the NVRAM, code to parse the profile image and code to write the profile image to the ROM.