Hardware Management

Project Leads

Hemal Shah, Bob Stevens

• Incubation Committee Representative John Leung

Scale computing requires a small and stable set of tools to remotely manage machines. The hardware management specification incorporates a set of existing tools and best practices and leverages existing tools for remote machine management.

Scope

The activities of the Hardware Management Project will be in the following areas.

• Manageability Interface & Capabilities
  • Standard manageability interfaces, which include the following capabilities
  • Resource discovery
  • Configuration and update
  • Telemetry
  • Control
  • Asynchronous eventing and notification
  • Composition
• Baseline manageability capabilities across the following Open Compute projects:
  • Server
  • Storage
  • Networking
  • Telco
  • Data center facility
  • Rack and power
• Provide guidance and feedback to other Open Compute projects extending the baseline manageability capabilities
• Overseeing the OCP’s repository for OCP Profiles
• Baseboard Management Controller
  • Baseboard management controller (BMC)
  • Out-of-band manageability interface to the BMC
  • In-band (system or host interface) manageability interface to the BMC
• Rack Management Firmware
  • A rack manager manages OCP platforms installed on one or more racks, and
  • exposes that manageability to the rest of the datacenter
  • The rack manager is the combination of open-source rack management firmware executing on a contributed rack management controller
  • The rack management firmware will expose an interface which conforms to an OCP prescribed interface.
  • The activities for this area are in the purview of the Open RMC subproject
• Management Controller Module
  • The management controller module separates the common platform management hardware and places them behind a connector.
  •  The module is specified by its connector pin-out
  • The module may have one or more form-factors
  • The activities for this area in the purview of the Hardware Management Module subproject

• Hardware Fault Management
  • Requirements for hardware fault management
  • Standardizing system behavior under hardware failures
  • Define key baseline requirements of managing HW errors to achieve target service
    level
  • Provide reference and guidance on system hardware failure management
  • The activities for this area are the purview of the Hardware Fault Management subproject
     

Regular Project Calls

This project meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 11am ET 

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