CN102778942A - Design method for off-peak electrification of hard disk - Google Patents

Design method for off-peak electrification of hard disk Download PDF

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CN102778942A
CN102778942A CN2012102197782A CN201210219778A CN102778942A CN 102778942 A CN102778942 A CN 102778942A CN 2012102197782 A CN2012102197782 A CN 2012102197782A CN 201210219778 A CN201210219778 A CN 201210219778A CN 102778942 A CN102778942 A CN 102778942A
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谷俊杰
滕学军
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The invention provides a design method for the off-peak electrification of a hard disk, which realizes the off-peak electrification of the hard disk in a mode of an externally-plug board card so as to achieve a purpose of lowering the maxim power consumption of the system electrification moment. Meanwhile, the board card is controlled to be plugged to serve as an optional module, and the flexibility and the maintainability are increased. An electrification sequence and an electrification interval are controlled by software, the software of the externally-plug board card can be refreshed by a computer, and therefore the externally-plug board card can be changed according to the practical situation. The off-peak electrification of the hard disk is realized in the mode of the externally-plug board card so as to achieve a purpose of lowering the maxim power consumption of the system electrification moment. Meanwhile, the board card is controlled to be plugged to serve as the optional module, and the flexibility and the maintainability are increased.

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The method for designing that a kind of hard disk is avoided the peak hour and powered on
Technical field
The present invention relates to computer server power management configuration technical field, the method for designing that specifically a kind of hard disk is avoided the peak hour and powered on.
Background technology
Along with the continuous development of science and technology, quantity of information is also increasing at a high speed, server performance is required also in continuous increase, especially to the requirement of server stores capacity.The capacity of the storage before the hard-disk capacity of at present a lot of servers has perhaps surpassed will reach this purpose, is the memory capacity that increases the monolithic hard disk on the one hand, is exactly the quantity that increases hard disk on the other hand.The capacity that increases the monolithic hard disk will certainly promote the power consumption of hard disk, and same accelerating must increase the power consumption of total system, especially the power consumption of start process moment.If this power consumption number has surpassed the ratings of power supply, to making a big impact in serviceable life of power supply.
Energy shortage is the present very real and cruel fact that we face; The delivery at a common data center is limited; And design when disposing machine room be with the server operation be power consumption as a reference, utilize the power supply of machine room to reach the standard grade to greatest extent, surplus is quite limited; This deployment way can reach the max cap. of machine room, and operation is to have to exceed specified machine room Power Limitation.But a very big problem is arranged; Be exactly this design deployment way be when normally moving according to server power consumption as a reference; According to long-time a large amount of test to the power consumption in the server start process; It is very big often to have obtained in start process the moment power consumption; Especially it is more obvious to dispose a fairly large number of system of hard disk, if when each rack powers in the machine room like this moment power consumption will be very big, thereby may surpass the specified situation that causes machine room tripping operation outage of machine room.The present invention proposes the method for designing that a kind of hard disk is avoided the peak hour and powered on, the hard disk that mainly uses the mode of extrapolation integrated circuit board to accomplish server (storage) is avoided the peak hour and is powered on, to reach the design that reduces the instantaneous power consumption in the start process.
Summary of the invention
The objective of the invention is to reduce server or storer start moment power consumption, to reach the protection system power supply and to make machine room powered on moment power consumption be no more than power-handling capability.Through modular design, a kind of washability and the versatility method for designing that very strong hard disk is avoided the peak hour and powered on is provided.
The objective of the invention is to realize by following mode; The hard disk that uses the mode of extrapolation integrated circuit board to accomplish server or storer is avoided the peak hour and is powered on; To reach the instantaneous power consumption that reduces in the start process; System adopts three modules to realize, is respectively hard disk backboard slot functional module, extrapolation control integrated circuit board functional module, Control Software functional module, wherein:
1) hard disk backboard slot functional module: on existing hard disk backboard, increase a slot splicing ear that connects each hard disk; This splicing ear is the media between a hard disk backboard and the control integrated circuit board; Be to realize the hard disk optional modular design of function that powers on of avoiding the peak hour; Determine whether to select for use this function according to the system disk configuring condition, realized that cost is controlled;
2) extrapolation control integrated circuit board functional module: it is controlled the hard disk electric sequence through top integrated MCU control module; The purpose that realization is avoided the peak hour and powered on; Why be designed to outside plug type, purpose is for the cost of the system that reduces configuration hard disk negligible amounts, also maintains easily work simultaneously;
3) Control Software functional module: this module is a software section that the control hard disk is avoided the peak hour and powered on; Consider digital control more convenient; Reduce peripheral circuit, reduce the volume of extrapolation control integrated circuit board, the convenient software of revising; According to the timely updating software of system configuration hard disk quantity and hard disk position, reach the purpose of quick research and development and quick upgrade-system configuration.
The invention has the beneficial effects as follows: principal feature of the present invention is that the mode through the extrapolation integrated circuit board has realized that avoiding the peak hour of hard disk powers on, and has reached the purpose that reduces the maximum power dissipation of system's powered on moment.Controlling integrated circuit board simultaneously can plug, as an optional module, has increased dirigibility and ease for maintenance.Control electric sequence and power on and realize through software that at interval external integrated circuit board can pass through the computer updating software, therefore can change external integrated circuit board according to actual conditions.Mode through the extrapolation integrated circuit board has realized that avoiding the peak hour of hard disk powers on, and has reached the purpose that reduces the maximum power dissipation of system's powered on moment.Controlling integrated circuit board simultaneously can plug, as an optional module, has increased dirigibility and ease for maintenance.
Embodiment
The method for designing that a kind of hard disk of the present invention is avoided the peak hour and powered on, invention can be divided into three modules and realize, are respectively hard disk backboard slot functional module, extrapolation control integrated circuit board functional module, Control Software functional module, wherein:
Hard disk backboard slot functional module: on existing hard disk backboard, increase a slot splicing ear that connects each hard disk; This splicing ear is the media between a hard disk backboard and the control integrated circuit board; Be to realize the hard disk optional modular design of function that powers on of avoiding the peak hour; Can determine whether to select for use this function according to the system disk configuring condition, realize that cost is controlled.
Extrapolation control integrated circuit board functional module: this module is the core of hardware among the present invention; It is controlled the hard disk electric sequence through the top MCU of being integrated into control module; The purpose that realization is avoided the peak hour and powered on; Why be designed to outside plug type, purpose is for the cost of the system that reduces configuration hard disk negligible amounts, also maintains easily work simultaneously.
The Control Software functional module: this module is a software section that the control hard disk is avoided the peak hour and powered on; Consider digital control more convenient; And peripheral circuit is unlikely too complicated, can reduce the volume of extrapolation control integrated circuit board, the most important thing is that software can conveniently revise; We can come updating software according to the hard disk quantity and the hard disk position of system configuration, reach the purpose of quick research and development and quick upgrade-system configuration.
On backboard, increase a slot, be used to connect the extrapolation integrated circuit board, the extrapolation integrated circuit board mainly is control hard disk electric sequence and powers on interval time that integrated circuit board is very narrow, can not influence placement and the system's power supply cabling and the system radiating etc. of backboard, and integrated circuit board is optional.
Principal feature of the present invention is that the mode through the extrapolation integrated circuit board has realized that avoiding the peak hour of hard disk powers on, and has reached the purpose that reduces the maximum power dissipation of system's powered on moment.Controlling integrated circuit board simultaneously can plug, as an optional module, has increased dirigibility and ease for maintenance.Control electric sequence and power on and realize through software that at interval external integrated circuit board can pass through the computer updating software, therefore can change external integrated circuit board according to actual conditions.
1) the present invention is a modular design; Under the situation that changes hard disk backboard hardly, realize; Only need on backboard, increase some circuits and a slot that is used for plug-in card; The function that powers on even system need not avoid the peak hour, this backboard remains operable, because its cost increase almost can be ignored;
2) implementation of the present invention mainly is the control module on the external integrated circuit board, can control between electric sequence and the hard disk of hard disk of each position and powers on interval time through control module being carried out software setting.Why use Digital Circuit Control,, can not cause too much influence like this on time of whole system exactly in order accurately to control power-on time.A same in addition system is if upgrade, only need to revise software just can, need not change backboard and external integrated circuit board;
3) the external integrated circuit board in this method for designing can plug, and is promptly convenient stable again, and producers and work of maintenance personnel are brought great convenience, and has very high maintainability;
4) for the configuration of hard disk negligible amounts, can select, but can increase this function again during dilatation, can reduce the operating cost at initial stage like this, thereby increase the competitiveness of product in market without this function.
Except that the described technical characterictic of instructions, be the known technology of those skilled in the art.

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1. method for designing that hard disk is avoided the peak hour and powered on; The hard disk that it is characterized in that using the mode of extrapolation integrated circuit board to accomplish server or storer is avoided the peak hour and is powered on; To reach the instantaneous power consumption that reduces in the start process; System adopts three modules to realize, is respectively hard disk backboard slot functional module, extrapolation control integrated circuit board functional module, Control Software functional module, wherein:
1) hard disk backboard slot functional module: on existing hard disk backboard, increase a slot splicing ear that connects each hard disk; This splicing ear is the media between a hard disk backboard and the control integrated circuit board; Be to realize the hard disk optional modular design of function that powers on of avoiding the peak hour; Determine whether to select for use this function according to the system disk configuring condition, realized that cost is controlled;
2) extrapolation control integrated circuit board functional module: it is controlled the hard disk electric sequence through top integrated MCU control module; The purpose that realization is avoided the peak hour and powered on; Why be designed to outside plug type, purpose is for the cost of the system that reduces configuration hard disk negligible amounts, also maintains easily work simultaneously;
3) Control Software functional module: this module is a software section that the control hard disk is avoided the peak hour and powered on; Consider digital control more convenient; Reduce peripheral circuit, reduce the volume of extrapolation control integrated circuit board, the convenient software of revising; According to the timely updating software of system configuration hard disk quantity and hard disk position, reach the purpose of quick research and development and quick upgrade-system configuration.
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