High speed storage array based on the SATA interface solid hard disk
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of high speed solid storage array, particularly, realize data interconnect by Fibre Channel optical fiber interface and server based on the SATA interface solid hard disk array of RAID technology.
Background technology
Disk array (RAID) technology is one of effective ways that solve Computer I/O bottleneck, and vast potential for future development is arranged.Spreading all over day by day of the develop rapidly of computing machine and correlation technique thereof and computer utility, more and more higher requirement has been proposed computer memory technical.Therefore, this capacity of disk array is big, reliability is high, respond rapidly memory technology is more and more paid attention to by people.
At present, the main memory device of disk array is a mechanical hard disk.The hard disk that flies to change collides with slightly just as the automobile of running at high speed, and consequence will be very serious, and poor reliability and power consumption are big.In the field such as industry, military affairs, space flight that with wide temperature, antivibration, economize on electricity is the high reliability of requirement, this storage medium has become the most difficult requirement even the insurmountable problem of reaching.
As the best way that overcomes the above problems, become a kind of trend of replacement mechanical hard disk as the solid state hard disc of storage and control carrier with semiconductor.Do not have mechanical hook-up, semiconductor transformation completely makes solid state hard disc form the characteristics of oneself: antidetonation, wide temperature, do not have make an uproar, low consumption, reliable.
The storage array that with the solid state hard disc is storage medium has been gathered the various advantages of solid state hard disc and the advantage of array management, has expanded the use field and the life-span of storage array greatly.The transmission cable of optical fiber interface enlarges transmission range simultaneously, makes data can grow the distance High-speed transmission.
Summary of the invention
Limited and make disk array use limited present situation at the suitable application area of existing disk array, propose to replace traditional mechanical hard disk with solid state hard disc, improve the I/O characteristic and the reliability of existing disk array.The SATA RAID card of the utility model is integrated band Fibre Channel optical fiber interface and adopt the high-speed high capacity SATA interface solid hard disk of FLASH array, compact conformation, wide temperature, antivibration, low-power consumption have improved capacity, read or write speed and the stability of storage array greatly.
Technical scheme of the present invention is: the structure based on the high speed storage array of SATA interface solid hard disk adopts the SATA interface solid hard disk of being made up of NAND FLASH array, control module 6 and SATA interface protocol 41 to do disk array, the RAID disk array of standard rack structure is connected with SATA RAID controller 2, the Fibre Channel interface 3 that meets fibre channel specification is connected with SATARAID controller 2, realizes the high speed solid storage array.
The structure of the solid state hard disc of SATA interface is: Nand Flash array 7 is connected with Flash controller 6, and Flash controller 6 connects MPU (microprocessor) 5, and MPU 5 connects SATA interface protocol 4, and SATA interface protocol 4 connects SATA interface 8.
Control module 6 is realized hardware ECC (bug check and correction) verification and Flash bad block management by FPGA (field programmable logic array (FPLA)), guarantees that data storage is lasting.By the FPGA field programmable logic device, adopt IP to realize SATA2.0 STD bus agreement, can realize the transmission speed of 3.0Gb/s.Adopt the mode of NAND type FLASH array 2 management, the expansion of realization capacity and speed, maximum can reach the capacity of 512GB and the storage speed of 300MB/s.
The SATARAID jig is equipped with a plurality of SATA interfaces, can connect a plurality of SATA interface solid hard disks.The SATA control chip that the RAID controller adopts, the carry of support SATAII interface protocol hard disk, the data rate of each port can reach 300MB/s.The RAID rank of RAID controller support is RAID 0,1, and 5,10 wait each RAID mode, can the better protect storage card in the safety of data.
RAID card hard disk hot-plug support can be rebuild mirror image queue automatically.Monitoring and storage administration based on gui software are provided, have operated very simply, greatly facilitated operator's management.FlashBIOS on the integrated circuit board supports upgrading in addition, the expansion more function.
Optical-fibre channel has characteristics such as high bandwidth, low delay, suitable long-distance transmissions, can realize 20 meters to the transmission range of 10 kms and the transmission speed of 100MB/S-1GB/S.
The present invention has following advantage:
1: select the SATA interface solid hard disk for use, when inheriting the versatility of mechanical hard disk, the excellent physical characteristics and the environmental characteristics that provide mechanical hard disk not have, and the field of storage of hard disk expanded to fields such as industry, military affairs, space flight.
2: adopt the RAID technology, expanded memory capacity and speed greatly, simultaneously can the better protect storage card in the safety of data.
3:RAID controller and server interconnect adopt optical fiber technology, high bandwidth, the low long-distance transmissions that postpones, suits.
4: adopt NAND type FLASH as storage medium, have the power down data and do not lose characteristics such as long service life.
5: the advantage of solid state hard disc and above-mentioned architectural feature make the high speed storage array based on the SATA interface solid hard disk have features such as high reliability, high-performance, low-power consumption, environment for use are extensive.
Description of drawings
Fig. 1: based on the high speed storage array structured flowchart of SATA interface solid hard disk
Fig. 2: SATA interface solid hard disk structured flowchart
Embodiment
The embodiment of the invention comprises: SATA interface solid hard disk, SATARAID controller, Fibre Channel interface, SATA interface protocol, MPU, FLASH controller and FLASH array.
SATA interface solid hard disk model is RDS SATA-128G.SATA interface protocol and Flash controller are realizing that with a slice microprocessor internal microprocessor is selected FPGA for use.By realizing system management at the inner MicroBlaze of embedding of FPGA soft-core processor.The SATA interface realize with main frame connect and the transmission of data the i.e. biography of data and conversion.The Flash controller is realized reading and storing of data.Processor is partly realized the compatibility order of SATA, distribution, array management and the Flash File System of data stream.Flash is as the final memory bank of data.The function of total system is simulated mechanical hard disk fully.
Adopt the SATA serial line interface, compatible SATA1.0 and SATA2.0 standard can realize the transmission speed of 3.0Gb/s, the advantage that this interface also has is simple in structure, support hot plug.FPGA is a kind of programmable logic device (PLD), contains abundant memory resource, trigger resources, interconnection resource, clock distribution and abundant supervisor's type and quantity on the sheet.Realize each layer protocol of SATA by the hardware description language programming.The SATA controller adopts ahb bus directly to be connected with embedded soft-core processor.And the integrated DMA controller improves data transmission efficiency.The FPGA design of optimizing reduces system power dissipation.
The controller core process chip of SATA RAID controller is Intel IOP-333, and built-in SATA connector is supported various RAID grades, and the storage mode of safer and elastification is provided.Fibre Channel interface adopts Xilinx FPGA to realize that wherein Fibre Channel Interface design channel protocol IP (XilinxFibreChannel LogiCORE) and passage Physical layer IP (Xilinx RocketIO GTP) finish.
Present embodiment adopts following configuration:
Programmable logic device (PLD): Virtex4FX60-11FF672
Embedded soft-core processor: Xilinx MicroBlaze 4.0
SATA interface: Virtex-4RocketIO MGT
Clock management: ICS844001
SATA RAID controller core process chip: Intel IOP-333
Optical fiber (FibreChannel) channel protocol IP:Xilinx FibreChannel LogiCORE
Optical fiber (FibreChannel) passage Physical layer IP:Xilinx RocketIO GTP
Case study on implementation
The high-speed data storage of on-board server
As everyone knows, on-board server is different with common server, and service condition is very harsh, take off and the acceleration that lands big, particularly require very high to the anti-seismic performance of server at the atrocious weather environment.High speed solid storage array configuration SATA interface solid hard disk, physical characteristics is superior, satisfies various environments for use.Simultaneously, high-speed transfer and the storage that utilizes optical fiber to realize data up to the magnanimity capacity of 10TBytes up to transmission speed and the SATA solid state hard disc array of 1GBytes/s.