公开(公告)号：US10684928B1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-16

申请号：US15856948

申请日：2017-12-28

Applicant: SOFTIRON LIMITED

Inventor： Phillip Straw ,  Harry Richardson ,  Robert Drury ,  Martin Raumann ,  David Anders

IPC: G06F11/30 ,  G06F11/20 ,  G06F11/32

Abstract: A storage server receives a control signal indicating that a specific storage device of a plurality of storage devices housed by a specific storage media tray has failed. The storage media tray is in turn housed by the specific storage server, which can house many such trays. In responsive to receiving the control signal, the server activates a visual fault indicator on an external display panel, indicating that the storage server contains a storage media tray housing a failed storage device. An external visual indicator on the specific storage media tray is activated to indicate that the specific storage media tray houses a failed storage device. The specific storage media tray activates an internal visual indicator identifying the specific storage device which has failed in the specific storage media tray. When the specific failed storage device has been replaced with a working storage device, the indicators are deactivated.

公开(公告)号：US12182587B2

公开(公告)日：2024-12-31

申请号：US17683690

申请日：2022-03-01

Applicant: SOFTIRON LIMITED

Inventor： Robert Drury ,  Andrew McNeil ,  Harry Richardson ,  Stephen Hardwick

IPC: G06F9/4401 ,  G06F1/3206 ,  G06F21/56 ,  G06F21/57

Abstract: A system includes servers, each server including a baseboard management controller (BMC) and operating environments including motherboards and processors. One of the BMCs includes circuitry to determine that the other server is in a standby mode. In a standby mode, the operating environment including the motherboard and processor is powered down and the BMC is powered only through a connection between the BMCs. The first BMC determines that additional resources for execution by the system from the other server are to be activated, and send a wake-up signal to the other BMC. The other BMC includes circuitry configured to receive the wake-up signal, wake the operating environment, and provision the operating environment, without power from the operating environment.

公开(公告)号：US20220121373A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-21

申请号：US17505890

申请日：2021-10-20

Applicant: SOFTIRON LIMITED

Inventor： Lionel Corbet ,  Phillip Edward Straw ,  Steve Hardwick ,  Harry Richardson

IPC: G06F3/06

Abstract: An apparatus includes a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, an acceleration framework circuit communicatively coupled to the memory and the processor, and a device driver. The device driver is configured to receive a request for data manipulation by a software defined storage (SDS) application. The device driver is configured to determine whether the request for data manipulation can be offloaded from the processor to the acceleration framework circuit. The device driver is configured to, based upon the determination of whether the request for data manipulation can be offloaded from the processor to the acceleration framework circuit, selectively cause the request to be executed by the acceleration framework circuit or the SDS application through execution on the processor.

公开(公告)号：US20220066890A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-03

申请号：US17410290

申请日：2021-08-24

Applicant: SOFTIRON LIMITED

Inventor： Robert Drury ,  Andrew McNeil ,  Harry Richardson ,  Stephen Hardwick ,  Phillip Edward Straw ,  Alan Ott

IPC: G06F11/20 ,  G06F9/4401

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.