CN214846518U

CN214846518U - Storage blade and blade server

Info

Publication number: CN214846518U
Application number: CN202120937129.0U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 叶操; 杨思明; 袁媛; 曹桢; 冯永生; 祖安; 夏超; 唐彦夫; 陈丛笑
Original assignee: Beijing Navistar Cloud Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Navistar Cloud Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-04-30
Filing date: 2021-04-30
Publication date: 2021-11-23
Anticipated expiration: 2031-04-30

Abstract

The utility model discloses a storage blade and blade server, public storage blade include central processing unit, system solid state hard drive, solid state hard drive controller, encryption/decryption daughter card, storage daughter card, network card, substrate management controller, power conversion module, proruption outage protection module, back panel connector and front panel, network card, substrate management controller and power module link to each other with high-speed back panel connector, and system solid state hard drive, network card, solid state hard drive controller pass through the PCIE interface and are connected with central processing unit, and encryption/decryption daughter card is installed from the front panel, is connected with solid state hard drive controller through the XAUI interface, and proruption outage protection module links to each other with the storage daughter card. The blade server comprises a computing blade, a storage blade and a management blade, and the safety of data storage and use of the storage blade is improved by adopting the storage blade.

Description

Storage blade and blade server

Technical Field

The utility model relates to server technical field especially relates to a storage blade. The utility model discloses still relate to the blade server that has above-mentioned storage blade.

Background

In the age of continuous development of modern information technologies such as internet, cloud computing, big data and the like, the demand for the storage capacity of a computer is more and more obvious. The storage blade is a type of blade in a blade server, and further includes a compute blade, a switch blade, a management blade, and the like. The blade server can greatly reduce the number of required external cables, reduce hidden dangers caused by the fault of cable connection and further improve the reliability of the system. At present, the storage blade mostly adopts a relatively mature chip and a scheme abroad, such as a processor of X86, a tera network card of intel, a solid state hard disk controller of Marvell and the like; most of the large-capacity storage destruction modes adopt logic destruction, so that the reliability cannot be ensured; high-bandwidth data encryption is rare because it is difficult to guarantee the read-write bandwidth of data. Due to increasingly outstanding information security problems, the thirteen-five planning has promoted autonomous controllability and localization to a new height, and the localization of the blade server has become an urgent need of important industries such as national defense, military, enterprises and the like.

Therefore, how to improve the security of storing and using the data of the storage blade becomes a problem to be solved urgently by those skilled in the art.

Disclosure of Invention

Based on above-mentioned technical problem, the utility model provides a storage blade has improved storage blade data storage and the security of using. On the basis of providing the storage blade, a blade server comprising the storage blade is also provided.

The utility model provides a storage blade, including central processing unit, system solid state hard drives, solid state hard drives controller, encryption/decryption daughter card, storage daughter card, network card, base plate management controller, power conversion module, proruption outage protection module, high-speed back panel connector and front panel, wherein:

the system solid state disk, the network card and the solid state disk controller are connected with the central processing unit through a PCIE interface;

the encryption and decryption daughter card is installed from the front panel and is connected with the solid state hard disk controller through an XAUI interface;

the solid state hard disk controller is connected with the memory daughter card through an ONFI interface;

the burst power-off protection module is connected with the memory daughter card;

the network card, the substrate management controller and the power supply module are connected with the high-speed backplane connector;

wherein XAUI is a communication interface of an encryption and decryption daughter card, and ONFI is an open NAND flash memory interface.

Preferably, the solid-state hard disk controller comprises a PCIE controller, an intelligent buffer management, a microprocessor, an SRAM, an ONFI storage protocol controller, an ONFI interface, an XAUI interface, and a PCIE interface, the PCIE controller, the microprocessor, the SRAM, and the ONFI storage protocol controller are connected to the intelligent buffer management, the microprocessor is connected to the ONFI storage protocol controller, the ONFI storage protocol controller is connected to the memory daughter card through the ONFI interface, the intelligent buffer management is connected to the encryption/decryption daughter card through the XAUI interface, and the PCIE controller is connected to the central processing unit through the PCIE interface, where PCIE is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, and the SRAM is a static random access memory.

Preferably, the encryption and decryption daughter card XAUI interface adopts a hot plug interface, the interface is located on the front panel, and the encryption and decryption daughter card and the solid state disk controller are connected through the hot plug interface.

Preferably, the storage blade further comprises a physical destruction module, the physical destruction module comprises a destruction control circuit and a power switching circuit, the destruction control circuit is connected with the high-speed backplane connector and the power switching circuit, and the power switching circuit is connected with the storage daughter card.

Preferably, the storage blade further comprises a CPLD, the CPLD is connected with the baseboard management controller through an I2C interface, and is connected with the front panel through a control interface, wherein the CPLD is a complex programmable logic device.

Preferably, the baseboard management controller comprises two gigabit ports, and the gigabit ports are connected with the high-speed backplane connector.

Preferably, the network card comprises two trillion network ports, and the trillion network ports are connected with the backplane connector through the trillion network ports.

Preferably, the central processing unit adopts FT1500A, and the domestic solid state disk adopts GK 2101.

Preferably, the burst power-off protection module includes a power-off detection circuit module and a write preemption circuit module, the power-off detection circuit module is connected with the write preemption circuit module, and the write preemption circuit module is connected with the memory daughter card.

The utility model discloses further solve the technical scheme that its technical problem adopted and be, provide on the basis of storage blade, the utility model discloses still provide an adoption the blade server of storage blade.

Preferably, the blade server includes computing blades, storage blades and switching/management blades, i computing blades, N-i storage blades and 2 switching/management blades are configured on the N slot blade servers, and the switching/management blades are respectively connected to the computing blades and the storage blades of the N slots through a backplane bus.

The utility model has the advantages that: the autonomous control of the information system is realized by independently developing a domestic CPU, an operating system, a tera network card, a solid state disk controller and a solid state disk, the integrity of data storage is ensured by the burst power-off protection module, and the safety of data storage is ensured by the encryption and decryption daughter card and the physical destruction module. The blade server obviously has all the advantages of blade storage, and can realize the autonomous control of the information system and ensure the information safety.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a storage blade according to the present invention;

fig. 2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a structure of a solid state hard disk controller according to the present invention;

fig. 3 is a block diagram schematically illustrating the structure of the physical destruction module provided by the present invention;

fig. 4 is a block diagram schematically illustrating the structure of the emergency power-off protection module provided by the present invention;

fig. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a structure of a blade server according to the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical solution of the present invention better understood by those skilled in the art, the present invention will be further described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a structure of a storage blade according to the present invention. The utility model provides a pair of storage blade, including central processing unit 101, system solid state hard drive 102, solid state hard drive controller 130, encryption/decryption daughter card 104, storage daughter card 109, network card 103, base plate management controller 105, power conversion module 108, burst power-off protection module 150, back panel connector 106 and front panel 107, wherein:

the system solid state disk 102, the network card 103 and the solid state disk controller 130 are connected with the central processing unit 101 through a PCIE (peripheral component interconnect express, high speed serial computer expansion bus standard) interface;

the encryption and decryption daughter card 104 is installed from the front panel, and is connected with the solid state hard disk controller 130 through XAUI interface (encryption and decryption daughter card communication interface), and the communication with the solid state hard disk controller 130 is realized by using a self-defined protocol;

the solid state hard disk controller 130 is connected with the memory daughter card 109 through an ONFI interface;

the burst power-off protection module 150 is connected with the memory daughter card 109;

the network card 103, the baseboard management controller 105 and the power conversion module 108 are connected to the backplane connector 106.

Further, referring to fig. 2, the solid-state hard disk controller 130 includes a PCIE controller 131, an intelligent buffer management 132, a microprocessor 133, an SRAM134 (static random access memory), an ONFI (Open Nand Flash Interface), a storage protocol controller 135, an ONFI Interface 136, an XAUI Interface, and a PCIE Interface, the PCIE controller 131, the microprocessor 133, the SRAM134, and the ONFI storage protocol controller 135 are connected to the intelligent buffer management 132, the microprocessor 133 is connected to the ONFI storage protocol controller 135, the ONFI storage protocol controller 135 is connected to the storage daughter card 109 through the ONFI Interface, the intelligent buffer management 132 is connected to the encryption/decryption daughter card 104 through the XAUI Interface, and the PCIE controller 131 is connected to the central processing unit 101 through the PCIE Interface. The domestic solid state disk control 130 is realized by an FPGA (field programmable gate array), and currently supports mounted 8TB high-capacity storage through an ONFI interface.

Further, the encryption/decryption daughter card 104 employs a XAUI interface, which is located on the front panel 107 and connected to the solid state hard disk controller 130 through the XAUI interface, after the encryption/decryption daughter card 104 is inserted, the encryption/decryption daughter card 104 performs encryption/decryption to allow reading/writing of the data of the storage blade, and after the encryption/decryption daughter card 104 is pulled out, the reading/writing of the data of the storage blade is prohibited.

Further, referring to fig. 3, the storage blade further includes a physical destruction module 110, where the physical destruction module 110 includes a destruction control circuit and a power switching circuit, the destruction control circuit is connected to the high-speed backplane connector 106 and the power switching circuit, and the power switching circuit is connected to the memory daughter card 109. When the memory blade normally works, the power switching circuit 142 provides a forward voltage to supply power to the memory daughter card 109; when the high-speed backplane connector 106 sends a one-key destruction signal to the destruction control circuit 141, the destruction control circuit 141 sends a destruction control instruction signal to the power switching circuit 142, and the power switching circuit 142 generates a reverse voltage signal to the memory daughter card 109 to destroy data in the memory daughter card 109.

Further, the memory blade further includes a CPLD (complex programmable logic device) 120, the CPLD120 is connected to the baseboard management controller 105 through an I2C interface, and is connected to the front panel 107 through a control interface, and the CPLD120 is used to control power-up and power-down, reset and related logic control of the memory blade.

Further, the baseboard management controller 105 includes two gigabit network ports, and is connected to the high-speed backplane connector 106 through the network ports, and the baseboard management controller 105 supervises the voltage, the temperature, the power, the serial port, and the CPLD120 of the blade.

Further, the network card 104 includes two gigabit ports, and the network card is connected to the high-speed backplane connector 106 through the two gigabit ports, and load balancing can be achieved by binding the two gigabit ports, and the network card 104 is implemented by using an FPGA and is connected to the central processing unit 101 through a PCIE interface.

Furthermore, the central processing unit 101 adopts FT1500A, the CPU is a 64-bit ARM processor, the highest dominant frequency is 2GHZ, the CPU has 4 PCIE3.0 channels, the CPU is connected to various high-speed PCIE devices through PCIE channels, the CPU has 4 DDR3 channels, the CPU supports 64GB memory to the maximum extent, the CPU adopts domestic kunlun firmware and a standard kylin operating system, the domestic solid state disk 102 adopts GK2101, and is a solid state disk of a PCIE interface, and the CPU 101 is connected through PCIE to serve as a local system disk for storing blades, and supports NVMe (standard and open collection and storage system for information) protocol.

Further, the memory daughter card 109 is NAND FLASH (NAND flash memory) granules.

Further, the storage blade further includes a CPLD120(Complex Programmable Logic Device), the CPLD120 is connected to the baseboard management controller 108, the baseboard management controller 108 supervises the CPLD120, and the CPLD120 is used for controlling power-on and power-off, reset and Logic control of the storage blade.

Further, referring to fig. 4, the burst power-off protection module 150 includes a power-off detection circuit module and a write preemption circuit module, the power-off detection circuit module monitors the power supply condition of the memory sub-card 109 in real time, and once the power supply is detected to be suddenly changed, the write preemption circuit module is started, at this time, all other operations are interrupted, and simultaneously, data in the data channel is quickly written into the memory sub-card 109.

Referring to fig. 5, the present invention further solves the technical problem of providing a blade server with the storage blade 100, and provides a blade server with the storage blade.

Preferably, the blade server includes a compute blade 200, a storage blade 100, and a management blade 300, and N slot blade servers are configured with 200i compute blades, 100N-i storage blades, and 2 management blades 300. The storage blade provides a data storage function, the computing blade provides a computing function for stored data, the management blade provides monitoring and management functions for the storage blade and the computing blade, the management blade adopts 2 blades to realize redundant backup, and stable operation of a blade server is guaranteed. Communication between compute blade 200, storage blade 100, and management blade 300, data goes through a gigabit network (10Gbps), and monitoring goes through a gigabit Ethernet (1 Gbps).

It is right above that the utility model provides a storage blade and blade server introduces in detail. The principles and embodiments of the present invention have been explained herein using specific examples, and the above descriptions of the embodiments are only used to help understand the core concepts of the present invention. It should be noted that, for those skilled in the art, without departing from the principle of the present invention, the present invention can be further modified and modified, and such modifications and modifications also fall within the protection scope of the appended claims.

Claims

1. The utility model provides a storage blade, its characterized in that includes central processing unit, system solid state hard drives, solid state hard drives controller, encryption/decryption daughter card, memory daughter card, network card, base plate management controller, power conversion module, proruption outage protection module, high-speed back plate connector and front panel, wherein:

2. The storage blade of claim 1, wherein the solid state disk controller comprises a PCIE controller, an intelligent buffer management, a microprocessor, an SRAM, an ONFI storage protocol controller, an ONFI interface, an XAUI interface, and a PCIE interface, the PCIE controller, the microprocessor, the SRAM, and the ONFI storage protocol controller are connected to the intelligent buffer management, the microprocessor is connected to the ONFI storage protocol controller, the ONFI storage protocol controller is connected to the storage daughter card through the ONFI interface, the intelligent buffer management is connected to the encryption/decryption daughter card through the XAUI interface, and the PCIE controller is connected to the central processing unit through a PCIE interface, where PCIE is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard, and SRAM is a static random access memory.

3. The storage blade of claim 2, wherein the encryption/decryption daughter card XAUI interface is a hot plug interface, and the interface is located on the front panel, and the encryption/decryption daughter card and the solid state disk controller are connected through the hot plug interface.

4. The storage blade according to claim 3, further comprising a physical destruction module, wherein the physical destruction module comprises a destruction control circuit and a power switching circuit, the destruction control circuit is connected to the high-speed backplane connector and the power switching circuit, and the power switching circuit is connected to the memory daughter card.

5. The storage blade of claim 4, further comprising a CPLD connected to the baseboard management controller via an I2C interface and connected to the front panel via a control interface, wherein the CPLD is a complex programmable logic device.

6. The storage blade of claim 1, wherein the baseboard management controller comprises two gigabit ports through which to connect to a high-speed backplane connector.

7. The storage blade of claim 1, wherein the network card comprises two tera ports through which the backplane connector is connected.

8. The storage blade as claimed in claim 1, wherein the central processor employs FT1500A and the domestic solid state disk employs GK 2101.

9. The memory blade of claim 1, wherein the burst power-off protection module comprises a power-off detection circuit module and a write preemption circuit module, the power-off detection circuit module is connected with the write preemption circuit module, and the write preemption circuit module is connected with the memory daughter card.

10. A blade server, comprising the storage blade of any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein the blade server includes i computing blades, i storage blades, N-i storage blades, and 2 switching/management blades, and the switching/management blades are respectively connected to the computing blades and the storage blades of the N slots through a backplane bus.