RACK SERVER DEVICE

• US 20120137148A1
• Filed: 02/22/2011
• Published: 05/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: LIU, Shen-Hsien, HE, Jian-Hua
• Application Number:
  US13/032,617
• Publication Number:
  US 20120137148A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/310
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/26 Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof for memories G11C
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3209 Monitoring remote activity, e.g. over telephone lines or network connections
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3246 by software initiated power-off
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4416 Network booting; Remote initial program loading [RIPL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/10 Current supply arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting

Abstract

A rack server device includes a plurality of servers and at least one control board of rack server device. Each of the servers includes a baseboard management controller (BMC). The BMC is operable to receive a power-on controlling signal so that the BMC can turn on the server. The control board of rack server device is connected to the servers through a management network and outputs the power-on controlling signal based on an input command. The control board of rack server device outputs the power-on controlling signal to the BMC of one of the servers so that the BMC turns on the server.

Claims

1. A rack server device, comprising:

a plurality of servers, each of the servers comprising;

a baseboard management controller for receiving a power-on controlling signal so that the baseboard management controller can turn on the server; and

at least one control board of rack server device connected to the servers through a management network for outputting the power-on controlling signal according to an input command;

wherein the control board of rack server device outputs the power-on controlling signal to the baseboard management controller of one of the servers so that the baseboard management controller turns on the server.

2. The rack server device of claim 1, wherein a power restore state of a basic input/output system (BIOS) of each of the servers is set to be always OFF.

3. The rack server device of claim 1, wherein after the control board of rack server device outputs the power-on controlling signal to the server for a predetermined period, the control board of rack server device outputs the power-on controlling signal to another server to realize a random power on of each of the servers.

4. The rack server device of claim 1, further comprising:

a switch for providing the management network.

5. The rack server device of claim 1, wherein the input command is an intelligent platform management interface (IPMI) command.

6. The rack server device of claim 1, further comprising:

a user interface electrically connected to the device control board of rack server, wherein the input command is generated by the user interface.

7. The rack server device of claim 6, wherein the user interface generates the input command so that the control board of rack server device sequentially outputs the power-on controlling signal to the servers respectively according to the input command, such that the servers are sequentially turned on.

8. The rack server device of claim 1, wherein the control board of rack server device comprises a storage element, the storage element is operable to store a command sequence, and the command sequence is operable to provide the input command.

9. The rack server device of claim 8, wherein the command sequence provides the input command so that the control board of rack server device sequentially outputs the power-on controlling signal to the servers respectively according to the input command, such that the servers are sequentially turned on.

10. The rack server device of claim 8, wherein the command sequence is composed of intelligent platform management interface commands.

11. The rack server device of claim 1, wherein the control board of rack server device extracts a media access control address or a rack management address of the baseboard management controller of the servers and randomly generates a plurality of delay periods according to the media access control address or the rack management address so that the baseboard management controller of the servers sequentially turns on the servers according to the delay periods.