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US 10,034,407 B2Granted
Storage sled for a data center
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsSteven C. Miller, Michael Crocker, Aaron Gorius, Paul Dormitzer
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Abstract
Examples may include a sled for a rack of a data center including physical storage resources. The sled comprises mounting flanges to enable robotic insertion and removal from a rack and storage device mounting slots to enable robotic insertion and removal of storage devices into the sled. The storage devices are coupled to an optical fabric through storage resource controllers and a dual-mode optical network interface.
Claims28
A data center sled, comprising:
- a frame to couple to a rack of a data center, the frame comprising a plurality of removable storage device mounting slots arranged to receive a plurality of storage devices;
- a substrate coupled to the frame;
- a multi-purpose connector module (MPCM) disposed on the substrate, the MPCM arranged to couple to a corresponding connector module of the rack;
- a plurality of storage device MPCMs disposed on the substrate, each of the plurality of storage device MPCMs coupled to the MPCM arranged to couple to a corresponding one of the plurality of storage devices;
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- a dual-mode optical network interface disposed on the substrate, the dual-mode optical network interface operably coupled to the MPCM and the storage device MPCMs.
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A data center rack, comprising:
- a plurality of mounting brackets arranged to form at least one sled space;
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- a plurality of rack side multi-purpose connector modules (MPCMs) coupled to an optical fabric;
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- at least one sled, each of the at least one sleds comprising:
- a frame to couple to ones of the plurality of mounting brackets, the frame comprising a plurality of removable storage device mounting slots arranged to receive a plurality of storage devices;
- a substrate coupled to the frame;
- a sled side MPCM disposed on the substrate, the sled side MPCM arranged to couple to a corresponding one of the rack side MPCMs;
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- a plurality of storage device MPCMs disposed on the substrate, each of the plurality of storage device MPCMs coupled to the sled side MPCM and arranged to couple to a corresponding one of the plurality of storage devices to communicatively couple the plurality of removable storage devices to the optical fabric.
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An apparatus for a sled of a data center, comprising:
- a frame comprising a first portion and a second portion to mechanically couple to a removable storage device tray, the first and the second portion arranged to form mounting flanges to mechanically couple to a rack of a data center;
- the removable storage device tray comprising a plurality of removable storage device mounting slots arranged to receive a plurality of storage devices;
- a substrate coupled to the frame;
- a multi-purpose connector module (MPCM) disposed on the substrate, the MPCM arranged to couple to a corresponding connector module of the rack;
- a plurality of storage device MPCMs disposed on the substrate, each of the plurality of storage device MPCMs coupled to the MPCM arranged to couple to a corresponding one of the plurality of storage devices;
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- a dual-mode optical network interface disposed on the substrate, the dual-mode optical network interface to operably couple to the MPCM and the storage device MPCMs.
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An apparatus for a sled of a data center, comprising:
- a frame to couple to a rack of a data center, the frame comprising a plurality of removable storage device mounting means arranged to receive a plurality of storage devices;
- a substrate coupled to the frame;
- a connector means disposed on the substrate, the connector means to couple to a corresponding connector means of the rack;
- a plurality of storage device connector means disposed on the substrate, each of the plurality of storage device connector means to couple a one of the plurality of storage devices to the connector means;
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- a dual-mode interface means disposed on the substrate, the dual-mode interface means operably coupled to the connector means and the storage device connector means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.