Fault tolerant network server having multiple slideably-mounted processing elements sharing a redundant array of independent disks through SCSI isolators
US6618821B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 12, 2000 |
| Grant date | Sep 9, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 12, 2020 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/2089
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A fault tolerant network server is described. This server has a pair of processing units, each processing unit has at least one CPU, system memory, an interface for a RAID system, at least one disk drive, a network interface, a cluster network interface, a power supply, and a case. The cases of both processing units are slideably mounted in a rack-mountable server case. The server also has a RAID system mounted in the server case and powered by two, redundant, power supplies and coupled to the processing units through isolators for blocking transactions when a processing unit has insufficient power or is being serviced.
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