DISTRIBUTED MANAGEMENT

• US 20140149785A1
• Filed: 10/25/2011
• Published: 05/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Bunker, M. Scott, White, Michael, McCree, Timothy A.
• Application Number:
  US14/233,407
• Publication Number:
  US 20140149785A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 714/6.2
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/2089 Redundant storage control functionality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/14 Handling requests for interconnection or transfer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/385 for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 23/02 Containers; Storing means both adapted to cooperate with the recording or reproducing means

Abstract

A distributed management system comprises a backplane and a plurality drive assemblies communicatively coupled to the backplane via a communication channel. Each of the plurality of drive assemblies includes a computing device, and each of the computing devices is to provide drive environmental data and control a light source.

Claims

1. A distributed management system, comprising:

a backplane; and

a plurality of drive assemblies communicatively coupled to the backplane via a communication channel,

wherein each of the plurality of drive assemblies includes a computing device, and

wherein each of the computing devices is to provide drive environmental data and control a light source.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the computing devices is located on a substrate affixed to a drive carrier of each of the plurality of drive assemblies.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the computing devices does not include the same feature set.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein, if the computing device of one of the plurality of drive assemblies fails, the computing device of the other of the plurality of drive assemblies continues to operate.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein, if one of the plurality of drive assemblies is removed, the backplane and the other of the plurality of drive assemblies continue to operate.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the computing devices is further to provide drive assembly location information.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the computing devices is further to provide bay presence information.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the environmental data comprises measured temperature information, measured airflow information, or measured vibration information.

9. A distributed management system, comprising:

a backplane; and

a plurality of drive assemblies communicatively coupled to the backplane via a communication channel,

wherein each of the plurality of drive assemblies includes a computing device,

wherein, if the computing device of one of the plurality of drive assemblies fails, the computing device of the other of the plurality of drive assemblies continues to operate, and

wherein, if one of the plurality of drive assemblies is removed, the backplane and the other of the plurality of drive assemblies continue to operate.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein each of the computing devices does not include the same feature set.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein each of the computing devices is to provide drive environmental data and control a light source

12. A drive carrier for use in distributed management system, the drive carrier comprising:

a substrate;

a light source located on the substrate; and

a computing device located on the substrate and communicatively coupled to the light source,

wherein the computing device is to provide drive environmental data and control the light source.

13. The drive carrier of claim 12, wherein the environmental data comprises measured temperature information, measured airflow information, or measured vibration information.

14. The drive carrier of claim 12, wherein computing device is further to provide assembly location information.

15. The drive carrier of claim 12, wherein the computing device is further to provide bay presence information.