Hardware Management

- Project Leads
- Bob Stevens, Hemal Shah
- 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