CN112946777A

CN112946777A - Server cabinet and data center

Info

Publication number: CN112946777A
Application number: CN202110175737.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张桂纲
Original assignee: Shandong Yingxin Computer Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shandong Yingxin Computer Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-02-09
Filing date: 2021-02-09
Publication date: 2021-06-11
Anticipated expiration: 2041-02-09
Also published as: CN112946777B

Abstract

The invention provides a server cabinet and a data center, wherein the server cabinet comprises: the cabinet body comprises a plurality of layers, and each layer is provided with different positioning units; the server box ears are provided with sensors corresponding to the positioning units, and the sensors are configured to deform based on contact with the positioning units under the condition that the servers are inserted into the cabinet body so as to generate electric signals representing the number of layers where the servers are located. By using the scheme of the invention, no additional operation or lighting guide is needed during server deployment and server maintenance, the misoperation probability is reduced, the completion time is accelerated, the system offline time is reduced, and the maintenance time and the labor cost are reduced.

Description

Server cabinet and data center

Technical Field

The field relates to the field of computers, and more particularly to a server rack and a data center.

Background

The whole cabinet is designed systematically to simplify operation and maintenance and easily realize service deployment, in order to realize data center resource management, a management center needs to manage servers on the whole cabinet in a centralized manner, and when a fault occurs, the fault position in the cabinet needs to be determined immediately to ensure the normal operation of the data center. In the prior art, each server resource on the whole cabinet is managed by depending on a management network IP (network position), the actual server position cannot be corresponding to through the network position, extra operation (such as lighting a lamp on the server) is needed to guide maintenance personnel to go to the position of the cabinet, maintenance is carried out according to lamp indication, if more than two servers are simultaneously lighted in the same cabinet, the maintenance content needed by each server cannot be determined, and time and labor cost are wasted.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, an object of the embodiments of the present invention is to provide a server rack and a data center, which can reduce the probability of misoperation, accelerate the completion time, reduce the offline time of the system, and reduce the maintenance time and the labor cost without additional operations or lighting guides when the server is deployed and maintained.

In view of the above object, an aspect of an embodiment of the present invention provides a server rack including:

the cabinet body comprises a plurality of layers, and each layer is provided with different positioning units;

the server box ears are provided with sensors corresponding to the positioning units, and the sensors are configured to deform based on contact with the positioning units under the condition that the servers are inserted into the cabinet body so as to generate electric signals representing the number of layers where the servers are located.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the positioning unit comprises a through hole positioning unit and a non-through hole positioning unit, and the arrangement of the through hole positioning unit and the non-through hole positioning unit corresponds to the number of layers where the servers in the cabinet are located.

According to one embodiment of the invention, a group of positioning units is arranged at a corresponding position of each layer of server in the cabinet body, and the group of positioning units at least comprises three positioning units.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the sensor comprises a set of signal generating units, the number and position of which are arranged in correspondence with a set of positioning units.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the signal generating unit is arranged to generate the electrical signal representing the number of layers where the server is located by contacting and deforming with the non-through hole positioning unit, and the through hole positioning unit enables the signal generating unit to pass through without deformation.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the server further includes a signal line connected to each signal generating unit in the sensor and transmitting the generated electric signal to the server in which the sensor is located.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the sensor is detachably mounted on a box ear of the server, and the positioning unit is detachably mounted on the cabinet.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, the signal generating unit includes a button switch, and the button generates the high voltage signal in a pressed state.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the sensor is bonded to the case ear of the server by an adhesive.

According to one embodiment of the invention, the sensors are assembled on the housing ears of the server by structural members. In another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, there is also provided a data center, where the data center includes a plurality of the above server cabinets. The invention has the following beneficial technical effects: according to the server cabinet provided by the embodiment of the invention, the cabinet body is arranged, the cabinet body comprises a plurality of layers, and each layer is provided with different positioning units; the server, be provided with on the server case ear with the sensor that the positioning unit corresponds, the sensor configuration is used for being in the state that inserts the cabinet body based on with the technical scheme of the contact deformation of positioning unit in order to produce the signal of telecommunication that shows the number of piles that the server is located, can need not extra operation or light a lamp to guide when server deployment and server maintenance, reduces the maloperation probability, and the completion time is with higher speed and the time of system off-line is reduced, reduces maintenance time and human cost.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art that other embodiments can be obtained by using the drawings without creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a front view of a server rack according to one embodiment of the invention;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of a positioning unit according to an embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

Embodiments of the present disclosure are described below. However, it is to be understood that the disclosed embodiments are merely examples and that other embodiments may take various and alternative forms. The figures are not necessarily to scale; certain features may be exaggerated or minimized to show details of particular components. Therefore, specific structural and functional details disclosed herein are not to be interpreted as limiting, but merely as a representative basis for teaching one skilled in the art to variously employ the present invention. As one of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate, various features illustrated and described with reference to any one of the figures may be combined with features illustrated in one or more other figures to produce embodiments that are not explicitly illustrated or described. The combination of features shown provides a representative embodiment for a typical application. However, various combinations and modifications of the features consistent with the teachings of the present disclosure may be desirable for certain specific applications or implementations.

In this document, when an element or portion is referred to as being "on," "engaged to," "connected to," or "coupled to" another element or portion, the element or portion may be directly on, engaged, connected, or coupled to the other element or portion, or intervening elements or portions may be present. In contrast, when an element is referred to as being "directly on," "directly engaged to," "directly connected to" or "directly coupled to" another element or component, there may be no intervening elements or components present. Other words used to describe the relationship between elements should be interpreted in a similar manner.

In view of the above objects, a first aspect of embodiments of the present invention proposes an embodiment of a server rack. Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of the server rack.

As shown in fig. 1, the server cabinet 1 may include:

the cabinet body 2, the cabinet body 2 contain the multilayer, and every layer is provided with the positioning unit 3 that differs each other, and the cabinet body 2 is ordinary rack, can select the size of the cabinet body 2 according to actual demand, and the server 4 of different quantity can be assembled to the size of the different cabinet bodies 2, therefore the also corresponding increase of quantity of positioning unit 3. In some embodiments, the positioning unit 3 is provided on the front face of the cabinet 2 in contact with the case ears of the servers 4 loaded in the cabinet 2. In some embodiments, a set of positioning units 3 is disposed in each layer of the cabinet 2 where the servers 4 are disposed, and the positioning units 3 are disposed at positions of fixing holes for fixing lugs of the servers 4. In some embodiments, a group of fixed units comprises at least three positioning units 3, preferably six positioning units 3, and the number of positioning units 3 is appropriately adjusted according to the data of the servers 4 that can be carried by the cabinet 2. In some embodiments, a set of positioning units 3 is arranged on average on both sides of the cabinet 2. In some embodiments, a set of positioning units 3 is provided on one side of the cabinet 2.

The server 4 is provided with a sensor 5 on a box ear of the server 4, and the sensor 5 is in contact deformation with the positioning unit 3 when the server 4 is inserted into the cabinet body 2, so that the sensor 5 generates an electric signal indicating the number of layers where the server is located. The sensor 5 that sets up on every server 4 case ear all includes a plurality of signal generation unit, the quantity and the position that set up of signal generation unit correspond with the quantity and the position of the positioning unit 3 that set up on the cabinet body 2, for example all be provided with 6 positioning unit 3 on every layer of the

cabinet body

2, 3 of them set up in the left side of the

cabinet body

2, 3 sets up in the right side of the cabinet body 2 in addition, then set up 3 signal generation units on the case ear of server 4 left side, every signal generation unit contacts a positioning unit 3 respectively when server 4 installs on the cabinet body 2, set up 3 signal generation units on the case ear of right side, every signal generation unit contacts a positioning unit 3 respectively when server 4 installs on the cabinet body 2. The signal generating unit can generate a high-voltage electric signal after contacting the positioning unit 3, according to different settings of the positioning unit 3, when the server 4 is installed on the box body, a group of signal generating units on the server 4 can obtain a group of signals with different voltages, so that the layer on which the server 4 is installed on the cabinet can be obtained according to a preset mode, the position of the server can be found without extra operation or lighting guidance during server deployment and server maintenance, the completion time is accelerated, the offline time of the system is reduced, and the maintenance time and the labor cost are reduced.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the positioning unit 3 includes a through-hole positioning unit 6 and a non-through-hole positioning unit 7, and the arrangement of the through-hole positioning unit 6 and the non-through-hole positioning unit 7 corresponding to the server 4 is set based on the layer number in which the server 4 is located in the rack. In some embodiments, the through hole positioning unit 6 is a hole drilled at the position of the positioning unit 3, and the size and depth of the hole are set to accommodate the signal generating unit in contact with the hole without deforming the signal generating unit. In some embodiments, the non-through hole positioning unit 7 is provided as a protrusion such that when the server 4 is inserted into the cabinet 2, the signal generating unit on the server 4 comes into contact with the protrusion, and the protrusion presses the signal generating unit to deform (close) it to generate a high voltage signal. The arrangement of the through hole positioning units 6 and the non-through hole positioning units 7 is set according to the number of layers in the cabinet body 2, for example, 6 positioning units 3 are arranged at the position of each layer of the server 4 on the

cabinet body

2, 6 signal generating units are arranged at the corresponding positions on the ears of the server 4, the 6 positioning units 3 correspond to the 6 signal generating units one by one, the 6 positioning units 3 are numbered from left to right in sequence, according to the binary counting rule, the first layer is 000001, then the arrangement of the 6 positioning units 3 in the first layer in the cabinet is that the left 5 are arranged as the through hole positioning units 6, the sixth is arranged as the non-through hole positioning units 7, then when the server 4 is arranged at the first layer, the left 5 signal generating units can pass through the through holes without generating high voltage signals, the sixth signal generating units can contact with the non-through hole positioning units 7 and close to generate high voltage signals, the transmission of these 6 signals to the server 4 generates a voltage signal of 000001, so that it is possible to obtain in the server 4 where the server 4 is installed, and so on for the other levels.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a group of positioning units 3 is disposed at a corresponding position of each layer of servers 4 in the cabinet 2, and the group of positioning units 3 at least includes three positioning units 3. According to the above description, three positioning units 3 can represent 8 layers, the number of the positioning units 3 in each layer can be increased according to the size of the actual cabinet 2, and the number of the signal generating units on the box ear of the server 4 can be correspondingly increased. In some embodiments, a set of positioning units 3 is arranged on average on both sides of the cabinet 2. In some embodiments, a set of positioning units 3 is provided on one side of the cabinet 2.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the sensor 5 comprises a set of signal generating units, the number and position of which are arranged in correspondence with a set of positioning units 3. The number and the arrangement positions of the signal generating units correspond to the number and the arrangement positions of the positioning units 3 arranged on the cabinet body 2, for example, 6 positioning units 3 are arranged on each layer of the cabinet body 2 and arranged on the left side of the

cabinet body

2, 6 signal generating units are arranged on the left side of the server 4, and each signal generating unit contacts one positioning unit 3 when the server 4 is installed on the cabinet body 2.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the signal generating unit is arranged to generate an electrical signal representing the number of layers in which the server is located by deforming in contact with the non-via positioning unit 7, and the signal generating unit can be passed through the via positioning unit 6 without deforming the signal generating unit. The signal generating unit does not generate any signal under normal conditions (non-closed and non-deformation), and generates a high voltage signal when the signal generating unit is closed due to extrusion deformation, and can generate voltage signals with different heights according to different settings of the positioning unit 3, so that the signal generating unit can generate a group of signals according to different arrangements of the non-through hole positioning unit 7 and the through hole positioning unit 6, and the reading corresponding to the signals is used for indicating the number of layers where the current server 4 is located.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the present invention further comprises a signal line connected to each signal generating unit in the sensor 5, and the electric signal generated by each signal generating unit is transmitted to the server 4 in which the sensor 5 is located through the signal line. The signal is transmitted to the server 4 and stored in the BMC, or may be stored in a corresponding memory.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the sensor 5 is removably mounted on the ear of the server 4 and the positioning unit 3 is removably mounted on the cabinet 2. The sensor 5 comprises a plurality of signal generating units which can be manufactured into a module and pasted on the box ear of the server 4. Several positioning units 3 may be combined together to form a module, which is glued to the cabinet 2. The modules formed by the signal generating unit and the modules formed by the positioning unit 3 need to be in one-to-one correspondence, namely, the parameters such as the number, the position, the size and the interval are matched.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the sensors 5 are removably mounted on the lugs of the server 4, the positioning unit 3 being introduced directly during the production of the cabinet 2 to create through holes and non-through holes. The sensor 5 comprises a plurality of signal generating units which can be manufactured into a module to be assembled on the box ear of the server 4. The modules formed by the signal generating units in the sensors 5 and the modules formed by the positioning units 3 need to be in one-to-one correspondence, namely, the parameters such as the number, the positions, the sizes and the intervals are matched.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the signal generating unit includes a button switch, and the button generates the high voltage signal in a pressed state. The invention is not limited to the implementation of other sensors 5, and other sensors 5 generating corresponding signals by the cooperation of the cabinet 2 part and the server 4 part are within the protection scope of the invention.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the sensor 5 is glued to the box ear of the server 4 by means of an adhesive.

In view of the above object, according to a second aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a data center is provided, where the data center includes the above server rack.

By the technical scheme, extra operation or lighting guide is not needed during server deployment and server maintenance, misoperation probability is reduced, completion time is accelerated, system offline time is reduced, and maintenance time and labor cost are reduced.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been shown and described, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made in these embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined in the appended claims and their equivalents.

In this application, the use of the conjunction of the contrary intention is intended to include the conjunction. The use of definite or indefinite articles is not intended to indicate cardinality. In particular, references to "the" object or "an" and "an" object are intended to mean one of many such objects possible. Furthermore, the conjunction "or" may be used to convey simultaneous features, rather than mutually exclusive schemes. In other words, the conjunction "or" should be understood to include "and/or". The term "comprising" is inclusive and has the same scope as "comprising".

The embodiments described above, particularly any "preferred" embodiments, are possible examples of implementations and are presented merely to clearly understand the principles of the invention. Many variations and modifications may be made to the above-described embodiments without departing from the spirit and principles of the technology described herein. All such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of this disclosure and protected by the following claims.

Claims

1. A server rack, comprising:

the server box lug is provided with a sensor corresponding to the positioning unit, and the sensor is configured to deform based on contact with the positioning unit under the state that the server is inserted into the cabinet body so as to generate an electric signal representing the number of layers where the server is located.

2. The server cabinet according to claim 1, wherein the positioning units include through-hole positioning units and non-through-hole positioning units, and the arrangement of the through-hole positioning units and the non-through-hole positioning units corresponds to the number of layers in which the servers in the cabinet are located.

3. The server cabinet according to claim 2, wherein a group of the positioning units is disposed at a corresponding position of each layer of the servers in the cabinet, and the group of the positioning units comprises at least three positioning units.

4. The server cabinet of claim 3, wherein the sensor comprises a set of signal generating units, the number and location of the signal generating units corresponding to the set of positioning units.

5. The server cabinet of claim 4, wherein the signal generating unit is configured to contact the non-through hole positioning unit to deform to generate an electrical signal indicating the number of layers of the server, and the through hole positioning unit passes through the signal generating unit without deforming.

6. The server cabinet according to claim 1, further comprising a signal line connected to each of the signal generating units in the sensors and transmitting the electric signal generated by each of the signal generating units to the server in which the sensor is located.

7. The server cabinet of claim 1, wherein the sensor is removably mounted on a box ear of the server and the positioning unit is removably mounted on the cabinet body.

8. The server cabinet of claim 4, wherein the signal generating unit comprises a button switch, the button being depressed to generate the high voltage signal.

9. The server cabinet of claim 7, wherein the sensor is bonded to the box ears of the server by an adhesive.

10. A data center, characterized in that the data center comprises a plurality of server cabinets according to any one of claims 1-9.