With in the digital economy, computing power has become an important factor for future industry development. The generation of massive data makes the workload of the data center more complex and changeable, and it also leads to stricter requirements for hardware performance and efficiency. In this context, Inspur, as the world's leading provider of computing solutions, began to devote itself to the construction of open infrastructure, and to provide enterprises and users with comprehensive solutions to deal with new challenges.
A few days ago, OpenRMC, an open computing project led by Inspur, has made the latest progress. The OCP community announced OpenRMC Design Specification v1.0 (Open Rack Management Design Specification Version 1.0), which stipulates the northbound management interface of the entire rack. Preliminarily clarified the information collection scope, data presentation method and hardware deployment options of the collection module in the equipment management, providing a reference architecture for the unified management of the entire cabinet, and laying a foundation for the further realization of the intelligent operation and maintenance of the data center.
OpenRMC is based on an open device-level management controller, which collects and controls the firmware operating status of various devices in the entire cabinet. Among them, with the BMC chip of the equipment in the cabinet as the boundary, it is divided into south management and north management. The south management collects data on the hard disk, power status, and power consumption inside the server through the components connected to the BMC; even includes top-of-rack switches Information about the working status of cabinet equipment; Northbound management presents the collected equipment working information in a unified standard, forming a standardized user interface and management method, and plans to meet new services demand such as security, encryption technology, and resource pooling in the future.
In this specification 1.0, the physical equipment required to collect southbound information includes power supplies in the cabinet, fans, and internal components of the server; the collected information includes the serial number of each node, the power status of the cabinet and the node (voltage, current value), and power supply. Switch status information, node temperature, node operating status (CPU, memory, LED), alarm log, firmware version, remote firmware refresh and server FRU information; the RMC management specification also recommends the hardware deployment of the information collection module, which can be deployed in Power distribution units, top-of-rack switches, and server nodes serve as dedicated RMC management consoles. In terms of northbound data presentation, OpenRMC integrates with the next-generation data center management standard Redfish, which can present all kinds of server data through a browser, which is more friendly than the binary display mode. At the same time, firmware can be remotely refreshed to facilitate operation and maintenance. Personnel control. For this reason, GUO Hong chang, senior technical director of Inspur, said that the first step of management is to have consistent statistics. By defining north and south specifications, the read data format and parameters are unified, so that users can realize all the whole machines in one interface. Cabinet management. At present, OpenRMC can control firmware updates. In the future, it will realize remote power on and off, online and offline hot-plugging of components, and open all links from data collection, reading, presentation to control.
In order to meet the overall operation and maintenance requirements of the data center, Inspur has also built a physical infrastructure management platform ISPIM, which provides functions such as unified asset management, real-time equipment monitoring, accurate alarm push, automatic equipment inspection, stateless firmware management, and intelligent energy consumption analysis , To realize the unified intelligent monitoring operation and maintenance of servers, storage, and network equipment in the data center.
At present, all walks of life are paying attention to the development of 5G and AI, but the application of new technologies such as 5G and AI cannot be separated from open computing. Because open source software and open hardware are constantly merging, it is changing the global IT industry division of labor and cooperation mode. As a common member of the three global open computing standards organizations of OCP, Open19 and ODCC, Inspur has been working hard for the development of open computing and has continuously promoted the industrialization and innovation of AI technology.
The digital economy is coming, and computing power has become an important factor for future industry development. The generation of massive data makes the workload of the data center more complex and changeable, and it also leads to stricter requirements for hardware performance and efficiency. In this context, Inspur, as the world's leading provider of computing solutions, began to devote itself to the construction of open infrastructure, and to provide enterprises and users with comprehensive solutions to deal with new challenges.
A few days ago, OpenRMC, an open computing project led by Inspur, has made the latest progress. The OCP community announced OpenRMC Design Specification v1.0 (Open Rack Management Design Specification Version 1.0), which stipulates the northbound management interface of the entire rack. Preliminarily clarified the information collection scope, data presentation method and hardware deployment options of the collection module in the equipment management, providing a reference architecture for the unified management of the entire cabinet, and laying a foundation for the further realization of the intelligent operation and maintenance of the data center.
OpenRMC is based on an open device-level management controller, which collects and controls the firmware operating status of various devices in the entire cabinet. Among them, with the BMC chip of the equipment in the cabinet as the boundary, it is divided into south management and north management. The south management collects data on the hard disk, power status, and power consumption inside the server through the components connected to the BMC; even includes top-of-rack switches Information about the working status of cabinet equipment; Northbound management presents the collected equipment working information in a unified standard, forming a standardized user interface and management method, and plans to meet new services demand such as security, encryption technology, and resource pooling in the future.
In this specification 1.0, the physical equipment required to collect southbound information includes power supplies in the cabinet, fans, and internal components of the server; the collected information includes the serial number of each node, the power status of the cabinet and the node (voltage, current value), and power supply. Switch status information, node temperature, node operating status (CPU, memory, LED), alarm log, firmware version, remote firmware refresh and server FRU information; the RMC management specification also recommends the hardware deployment of the information collection module, which can be deployed in Power distribution units, top-of-rack switches, and server nodes serve as dedicated RMC management consoles. In terms of northbound data presentation, OpenRMC integrates with the next-generation data center management standard Redfish, which can present all kinds of server data through a browser, which is more friendly than the binary display mode. At the same time, firmware can be remotely refreshed to facilitate operation and maintenance. Personnel control. For this reason, GUO Hong chang, senior technical director of Inspur, said that the first step of management is to have consistent statistics. By defining north and south specifications, the read data format and parameters are unified, so that users can realize all the whole machines in one interface. Cabinet management. At present, OpenRMC can control firmware updates. In the future, it will realize remote power on and off, online and offline hot-plugging of components, and open all links from data collection, reading, presentation to control.
In order to meet the overall operation and maintenance requirements of the data center, Inspur has also built a physical infrastructure management platform ISPIM, which provides functions such as unified asset management, real-time equipment monitoring, accurate alarm push, automatic equipment inspection, stateless firmware management, and intelligent energy consumption analysis , To realize the unified intelligent monitoring operation and maintenance of servers, storage, and network equipment in the data center.
At present, all walks of life are paying attention to the development of 5G and AI, but the application of new technologies such as 5G and AI cannot be separated from open computing. Because open source software and open hardware are constantly merging, it is changing the global IT industry division of labor and cooperation mode. As a common member of the three global open computing standards organizations of OCP, Open19 and ODCC, Inspur has been working hard for the development of open computing and has continuously promoted the industrialization and innovation of AI technology.
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