TWI694327B - Low-power storage server - Google Patents

Abstract

A low-power storage server comprises: a power distribution board configured to receive a total power consumption sent from a power supply unit; a fan control board connecting with the power distribution board in a board-to-board connection mode configured to receive the total power consumption, a memory installing on a storage adapter of the low-power storage server, with the power consumption of the memory being sent through the fan control board; wherein the memory comprises 24 solid-state hard disks supporting hot-swappable; the low-power storage server is implemented as a 2U24 storage server through said 24 solid-state hard disks. The low-power storage server of the present disclosure achieves the low power consumption on the basis of low cost, that is, the 2U24 storage server is implemented with only 500W of the total power consumption.

Description

Low-power storage server

The invention belongs to the technical field of system hardware, and relates to a server, in particular to a low-power storage server.

With the continuous development of the server, the requirements for the server are getting higher and higher, which is manifested in higher security, more flexible configuration, more powerful storage capacity, better scalability and Lower prices etc. The general configuration can not meet the needs of customers, which requires the server to constantly update the configuration, continuous optimization and compatibility to continue to increase, and the cost must continue to decrease.

However, existing servers cannot achieve low power consumption on the basis of low cost. Therefore, how to provide a low-power storage server to resolve the defects that the existing technology cannot achieve low power consumption on the basis of low cost has become a technical problem that needs to be solved urgently by those skilled in the art.

In view of the above-mentioned shortcomings of the prior art, an object of the present invention is to provide a low-power storage server for solving the problem that the prior art cannot achieve low power consumption on the basis of low cost.

In order to achieve the above object and other related objects, the present invention provides a low-power storage server, including: a power distribution board for receiving the power consumption of the whole machine from the power supply unit; a fan control board, used with the power distribution board The board-to-board connection method is used to receive the power consumption of the whole machine; the memory is hung under the storage adapter of the low-power storage server, and the memory is delivered through the fan control board Required power consumption; wherein, the memory includes 24 solid-state hard drives that support hot swapping; through 24 solid-state drives, the low-power storage server is implemented as a 2U24 storage server.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the power consumption required by the power distribution board is the first power consumption of the power consumption of the whole machine.

In an embodiment of the invention, the fan control board is used to receive the remaining power consumption except the first power consumption among the power consumption of the whole machine.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the solid state drive is a 3.5-inch solid state drive, and 24 3.5-inch solid state drives that support hot swapping are hung under the storage adapter in two layers, upper and lower; wherein , Each layer of solid state drives are arranged in a 3×4 array.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the power consumption required by the 24 solid state drives is the second power consumption of the overall power consumption.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the fan control board is further connected to the motherboard, and delivers the power consumption required by the motherboard; the power consumption required by the motherboard is the third function of the overall power consumption Consume.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the motherboard is connected with a fast peripheral component interconnect card, a solid-state drive of the operating system, a dual-row memory module, and a central processor in parallel, and the power consumption is separately distributed to all The fast peripheral component interconnect card, the solid-state hard disk of the operating system, the dual-row memory module, and the central processor.

In an embodiment of the invention, the power consumption required by the fast peripheral component interconnection card is the fourth power consumption among the third power consumption; the power consumption required by the solid state drive of the operating system is the third power consumption The fifth power consumption in the power consumption; the power consumption required by the dual-row memory module is the sixth power consumption in the third power consumption; the power consumption required by the central processor is the seventh power in the third power consumption Consume.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the fan control board is further connected to the fan module, and delivers the power consumption required by the fan module; the power consumption required by the fan module is the power consumption of the whole machine Eighth power consumption.

In an embodiment of the invention, the fan module includes 4 sets of fans; each set of fans consumes the eighth power consumption on average.

As described above, the low-power storage server of the present invention has the following beneficial effects:

The low-power storage server of the present invention achieves low power consumption at the same time on the basis of low cost, that is, the 2U24 storage server is realized with only 500W of total power consumption.

The following describes the implementation of the present invention by specific specific examples. Those skilled in the art can easily understand other advantages and effects of the present invention from the contents disclosed in this specification.

It should be noted that the structure, ratio, size, etc. shown in the drawings of this specification are only used to match the content disclosed in the specification for those familiar with this technology to understand and read, not to limit the implementation of the present invention. Limited conditions, so it has no technical significance. Any modification of structure, change of proportional relationship or adjustment of size should still fall within the scope of the present invention without affecting the efficacy and purpose of the present invention. The disclosed technical content can be covered. At the same time, the terms such as "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "middle", and "one" cited in this manual are only for the convenience of description, not to limit this. The scope of the invention that can be implemented, and the change or adjustment of its relative relationship, without substantial changes in the technical content, should also be regarded as the scope of the invention.

The technical principle of the low-power storage server provided by the present invention is as follows:

The Kingler system is a 2U24 cold storage server used in data centers. The Kingler system uses the Motherboard of the Grangeville platform, which uses the Intel® Xeon® Processor D-1500 central processing unit (CPU). The system has dual 10G/25G network ports, two 800W power supply units (PSU) supporting redundancy, onboard SATA M.2 interface, two rear 2.5-inch SATA interfaces or solid state PCI Express interface solid state Hard disk, 100M/1000M management network port, 4 hot-swappable dual-rotor fans supporting redundancy. The Kingler system implements a 2U24 storage server by attaching 24 hot-swappable 3.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs) under the 3224 host bus interface (HBA) card to 12 hot-swappable hard drives (HDDs). Among them, the motherboard of the Kingler system uses an ultra-low power Broadwell-DE processor. The invention realizes the 2U24 storage server only by using the complete power consumption of 500W.

Example one

This embodiment provides a low-power storage server, including:

Power distribution board, used to receive the power consumption of the whole machine from the power supply unit;

The fan control board is connected to the power distribution board in a board-to-board manner, and is used to receive the power consumption of the whole machine;

The memory is hung under the storage adapter of the low-power storage server, and the power consumption required by the memory is distributed through the fan control board; wherein, the memory includes 24 supporting heat Plug-in solid-state hard drive; through 24 solid-state hard drives, the low-power storage server is realized as a 2U24 storage server.

The low-power storage server described in this embodiment will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. The low-power storage server described in this embodiment is suitable for data storage (cold storage) that does not require frequent reading and writing. Please refer to FIG. 1, which shows a schematic structural diagram of a low-power storage server in one embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, the low-power storage server 1 includes a power supply unit 10, a power distribution board 11, a fan control board 12, a memory 13, a motherboard 14, a fast peripheral component interconnect card 15, and a solid state operating system Hard disk 16, dual-row memory module 17, central processor 18 and fan module 19.

The power supply unit 10 is used to output power required by devices in the low-power storage server 1. In this embodiment, the power supply unit 10 (PSU) includes a first power supply unit 101 (PSU0) and a second power supply unit 102 (PSU1) for respectively supplying power

The power distribution board 11 (PDB) electrically connected to the power supply unit 10 is used to receive the power consumption of the whole machine from the power supply unit 10. In this embodiment, the overall power consumption is 500W. The power consumption required by the power distribution board 11 is the first power consumption of the overall power consumption. In this embodiment, the first power consumption is 19 watts (Watt, W).

A fan control board 12 (Fan control Board) connected to the power distribution board 11 in a board-to-board (Board to Board) connection is used to receive the power consumption of the whole machine, and divides the first power consumption of the whole machine into the first The remaining power consumption outside the power consumption is delivered (the remaining power consumption received by the power distribution board 11 is 481W in this embodiment) and distributed to the memory 13, the motherboard 14 and the fan module 19.

In this embodiment, the power supply of the main board 14 is provided by the fan control board 12, so that the fan control board 12/distribution board 11 can be used with a variety of different configurations of the main board to maximize its commonality and save other project development costs With resources.

The memory 13 electrically connected to the fan control board 12 is hung under the storage adapter of the low-power storage server 1, and the memory 13 needs to be delivered through the fan control board 12 Power consumption, that is, the power consumption required by the memory 13 is the second power consumption of the overall power consumption (the second power consumption is 240W in this embodiment), that is, the power consumption required by 24 solid state drives It is 240W in the overall power consumption.

Please refer to FIG. 2, which is a schematic structural diagram of the memory in one embodiment. As shown in FIG. 2, the memory 13 includes 24 solid-state drives 131 that support hot swapping. In this embodiment, the solid state drive is a 3.5-inch solid state drive.

Specifically, 24 hot-swappable 3.5-inch solid-state drives are mounted under the storage adapter in two layers: the solid-state drives 131 in each layer are arranged in a 3×4 array.

In this embodiment, the low-power storage server is implemented as a 2U24 storage server through 24 solid state drives.

The host board 14 connected to the fan control board 12 is used to receive the power consumption required by the host board 14 delivered by the fan control board 12. The required power consumption of the motherboard 14 is the third power consumption of the overall power consumption, that is, the third power consumption is 141W. In this embodiment, the motherboard 14 uses an ultra-low power Broadwell-DE processor.

In this embodiment, the motherboard 14 is paralleled with a fast peripheral component interconnect card 15, an operating system solid state drive 16 (SSD for OS), a dual-row memory module 17 (DIMM), and a central processor 18 (CPU), and deliver the third power consumption to the fast peripheral component interconnect card 15, the solid-state hard disk 16 of the operating system, the dual-row memory module 17, and the central processor 18, respectively .

In this embodiment, the power consumption required by the fast peripheral component interconnection card is the fourth power consumption among the third power consumption, that is, the fourth power consumption is equal to 38W;

The required power consumption of the solid-state drive of the operating system is the fifth power consumption among the third power consumption, that is, the fifth power consumption is equal to 18W;

The power consumption required by the dual-row memory module is the sixth power consumption among the third power consumption, that is, the sixth power consumption is equal to 20W;

The power consumption required by the central processor is the seventh power consumption among the third power consumption, that is, the seventh power consumption is equal to 65W.

In this embodiment, the fan control board 12 is further connected to the fan module 19 and delivers the power consumption required by the fan module 19. The required power consumption of the fan module is the eighth power consumption of the overall power consumption, and the eighth power consumption is 100W in practical applications. The fan module 19 includes four sets of fans (the four sets of fans are four hot-swappable dual-rotor fans that support redundancy), and each set of fans consumes the eighth power consumption on average.

In this embodiment, the overall power consumption is 500W = the first power consumption is 19W + the second power consumption is 240W + the third power consumption is 141W + the eighth power consumption is 100W.

The third power consumption 141W=the fourth power consumption 38W+the fifth power consumption 18W+the sixth power consumption 20W+the seventh power consumption 65W.

In summary, the low-power storage server of the present invention achieves low power consumption at the same time on the basis of low cost, that is, the 2U24 storage server is realized with only 500W of total power consumption. The invention effectively overcomes various shortcomings in the prior art and has high industrial utilization value.

The above-mentioned embodiments only exemplarily illustrate the principle and efficacy of the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention. Anyone familiar with this technology can modify or change the above embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, all equivalent modifications or changes made by those with ordinary knowledge in the technical field without departing from the spirit and technical idea disclosed by the present invention should still be covered by the claims of the present invention.

1: Low-power storage server 10: Power supply unit 11: distribution board 12: Fan control board 13: Memory 14: motherboard 15: Fast peripheral component interconnection card 16: Operating system solid state drive 17: Dual-row memory module 18: CPU 19: Fan module 101: the first power supply unit 102: second power supply unit 131: Solid State Drive

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a low-power storage server of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of the memory of the present invention.

1: Low-power storage server

101: the first power supply unit

102: second power supply unit

10: Power supply unit

11: distribution board

12: Fan control board

13: Memory

14: motherboard

15: Fast peripheral component interconnection card

16: Operating system solid state drive

17: Dual-row memory module

18: CPU

19: Fan module

Claims (10)

A low-power storage server includes: a power distribution board for receiving the power consumption of a whole machine from a power supply unit; a fan control board connected to the power distribution board in a board-to-board connection for receiving The power consumption of the whole machine; and a memory, which is hung under a storage adapter of the low-power storage server and delivers the power consumption of the memory through the fan control board; wherein, the memory Including 24 solid-state drives that support hot swapping; through the 24 solid-state drives, the low-power storage server is implemented as a 2U24 storage server. The low power consumption storage server according to claim 1, wherein the power consumption required by the power distribution board is a first power consumption among the power consumption of the whole machine. The low power consumption storage server according to claim 2, wherein the fan control board is used to receive the remaining power consumption of the whole machine power consumption except the first power consumption. The low-power storage server according to claim 3, wherein each of the solid-state drives is a 3.5-inch solid-state drive, and the 24 hot-swappable 3.5-inch solid-state drives are hung under two layers The storage adapter; where, each layer of solid state drives are arranged in a 3×4 array. The low-power storage server according to claim 4, wherein the power consumption required by the 24 solid state drives is a second power consumption among the power consumption of the entire machine. The low-power storage server according to claim 1, wherein the fan control board is further connected to a motherboard, and delivers the power consumption required by the motherboard; the power consumption required by the motherboard is the power of the whole machine A third power consumption. The low-power storage server according to claim 6, wherein a fast peripheral component interconnect card, an operating system solid state drive, a dual-row memory module and a central processing unit are mounted in parallel on the motherboard And distribute the power consumption to the fast peripheral component interconnect card, the solid-state hard disk of the operating system, the dual-row memory module and the central processing unit. The low-power storage server according to claim 7, wherein the power consumption required by the fast peripheral component interconnection card is a fourth power consumption of the third power consumption; the solid-state hard disk drive of the operating system The power consumption required is a fifth power consumption among the third power consumption; the power consumption required for the dual-row memory module is a sixth power consumption among the third power consumption; and the power required by the central processor The power consumption is a seventh power consumption among the third power consumption. The low-power storage server according to claim 8, wherein the fan control board is further connected to a fan module, and delivers the power consumption required by the fan module; the power consumption required by the fan module is The eighth power consumption in the overall power consumption. The low-power storage server according to claim 9, wherein the fan module includes 4 sets of fans; each set of fans consumes the eighth power consumption on average.

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