Out-of-band ethernet interface switching apparatus, multi-node server system and server device
AssigneeSuzhou Metabrain Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
InventorBin YANG
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Abstract
An out-of-band Ethernet interface switching apparatus, a multi-node server system, and a server device are provided by the present application. In the present application, the out-of-band management switch may be directly connected via one cable, thereby the quantity of ports of the out-of-band management switch is released, the hardware resource utilization of the server system is improved, the quantity of cables required for connection is reduced and the operation and maintenance cost of the system are helped to be reduced.
Claims21
An out-of-band Ethernet interface switching apparatus applied to a multi-node server system, wherein the multi-node server system comprises at least two computing nodes, and each of the at least two computing nodes comprises a central processing unit (CPU) subsystem and a baseboard manager controller (BMC) subsystem;
- the out-of-band Ethernet interface switching apparatus comprises a first switching controller, and the first switching controller has a first switch interface and at least two communication interfaces;
- the first switch interface is configured to be connected to an out-of-band management switch, and the at least two communication interfaces are configured to be connected to BMC subsystems, wherein each of the at least two communication interfaces is connected to one of the BMC subsystems;
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- a first out-of-band channel is formed from each of the BMC subsystems to the out-of-band Ethernet interface switching apparatus and the out-of-band management switch for a remote user to access out-of-band information of the each of the BMC subsystems.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.