US 2022/0066890 A1Published application

Centralized Server Management For Shadow Nodes

AssigneeSoftiron Limited

InventorsRobert Drury, Andrew McNeil, Harry Richardson, Stephen Hardwick, Phillip Edward Straw, Alan Ott

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Abstract

An apparatus includes a communications interface and a management server. The management server is configured to access servers through the interface, determine that additional resources are needed for execution by a system, and determine that one of the servers is in a standby mode. In the standby mode, the server is powered down and a baseboard management controller (BMC) therein is only powered through a connection from the apparatus or another server of the network. The management server is configured to determine that additional resources for execution by the system from the server are to be activated and cause a wake-up signal to be sent to the BMC, wherein the wake-up signal is configured to cause the BMC to wake and provision the operating environment of the server.

Claims18

Dependent claims

An apparatus, comprising:

a communications interface;
and
a management server comprising circuitry configured to:
access a first server and a second server through the communications interface, wherein:
the first server is to include a first baseboard management controller (BMC) and a first operating environment including a first motherboard and a first processor;
and
a second server is to include a second BMC and a second operating environment including a second motherboard and a second processor;
determine that additional resources are needed for execution by a system including the servers;
determine that the first server is in a standby mode, wherein the first operating environment is powered down and the first BMC is powered only through a connection from the apparatus;
determine that additional resources for execution by the system from the first server are to be activated;
and
cause a wake-up signal to be sent to the first BMC, the wake-up signal configured to cause the BMC to wake the first operating environment and to provision the first operating environment.

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A method, comprising, at a management server:

accessing a first server and a second server on a network, wherein:
the first server is to include a first baseboard management controller (BMC) and a first operating environment including a first motherboard and a first processor;
and
a second server is to include a second BMC and a second operating environment including a second motherboard and a second processor;
determining that additional resources are needed for execution by a system including the servers;
determining that the first server is in a standby mode, wherein the first operating environment is powered down and the first BMC is powered only through a connection from the apparatus;
determining that additional resources for execution by the system from the first server are to be activated;
and
causing a wake-up signal to be sent to the first BMC, the wake-up signal configured to cause the BMC to wake the first operating environment and to provision the first operating environment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/410,290Filed 24 Aug 2021
Priority: 25 Aug 2020
Published: 3 Mar 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification19 codes

G06F 1/3209
Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality: monitoring remote activity, e.g. over telephone lines or…
G06F 11/2025
Failover techniques: using centralised failover control functionality
G06F 1/28
Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof: supervision thereof, e.g. detecting power-supply failure by out of limits supervision
G06F 1/30
Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof: means for acting in the event of power-supply failure or interruption, e.g. power-supply fluctuations