Independent drive enclosure blades in a blade server system with low cost high speed switch modules
US7787482B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 17, 2006 |
| Grant date | Aug 31, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 21, 2028 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L49/45
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A high speed fabric is provided and is partitioned into sub-fabrics for host adapter traffic and device adapter traffic. A high-speed switch includes an expander for host adapter traffic and an expander for device adapter traffic. The high-speed switch also includes a plurality of connectors, where each connector is partitioned into dual interfaces. For each connector, one interface is connected to the host adapter traffic expander and the other interface is connected to the device adapter traffic expander. Blades are provided with one or more connectors, where each connector is partitioned into dual interfaces for host adapter traffic and device adapter traffic. The blades may be any combination of processor blades, boot drive enclosure blades, switched bunch of disks enclosure blades, and/or integrated RAID controller disk enclosure blades.
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