Disk array device
View Patent ↗A disk array device including a logic mounting unit which mounts a cache memory which temporarily stores data transferred from a high-level device and performs control to write the data stored in the cache memory to a plurality of memory devices at the time of power failure. The power supply from the battery mounting unit to the plurality of memory devices is sequentially stopped in an order of memory device to which data writing from the cache memory has been completed at a time of the power failure, and even after the power supply to the hard disks in which the destage has been completed is stopped, the power supply into the cache memory from the battery is continued.
1. A disk array device connected to a higher-level device, comprising:
a memory device mounting unit which mounts a plurality of memory devices;
a logic mounting unit which is connected to said memory device mounting unit and receives a read request and/or write request from said high-level device to control data read and/or write from/to any one of said plurality of memory devices; and
a battery mounting unit which mounts a battery, stores a part of electric power supplied to said logic mounting unit and said memory device mounting unit, and supplies said stored electric power to said logic mounting unit and said memory device mounting unit at the time of a power failure,
wherein:
said logic mounting unit mounts a cache memory which temporarily stores data transferred from said high-level device and performs control to write the data stored in said cache memory to said plurality of memory devices at the time of power failure,
the power supply from said battery mounting unit to said plurality of memory devices is sequentially stopped in an order of memory device to which data writing from said cache memory has been completed, and
even after the power supply to the hard disks in which the destage has been completed is stopped, the power supply into the cache memory from the battery is continued.
2. A disk array device according to claim 1 , comprising:
a fan for cooling each of said logic mounting unit and said memory device mounting unit; and
a case body accommodating each of said logic mounting unit and said memory device mounting unit,
wherein said logic mounting unit mounts: a channel controlling unit to which the higher-level device is connected and that performs data transfer control; a disk controlling unit to which a memory device is connected and that performs data transfer control; a shared memory into which control information communicated by said channel controlling unit and said disk controlling unit is stored; and a connecting unit to which said channel controlling unit, said disk controlling unit, said cache memory, and said shared memory are connected,
said battery mounting unit is disposed at a lower portion of said case body, and includes a nickel hydrogen battery disposed at the lower portion of said case body, which is cooled by natural convection of air inside said case body by said fan.
3. A disk array device according to claim 2 ,
wherein said battery mounting unit carries out connection in said case body, by a board feed connection using a connector.
4. A disk array device according to claim 2 ,
wherein said battery mounting unit mounts a capacitor that supplies a backup power source at the time of an instantaneous power failure.
5. A disk array device according to claim 2 ,
wherein said battery mounting unit has a slit for making air come through an inside of said battery mounting unit.
6. A disk array device according to claim 2 ,
wherein said battery mounting unit has, on a front surface thereof, a display unit indicating a condition of said battery mounting unit and a charge condition of said nickel hydrogen battery.
7. A disk array device according to claim 1 , comprising:
a storage controlling unit with said logic mounting unit;
a storage driving unit with said memory device mounting unit;
a fan for cooling each of said logic mounting unit and said memory device mounting unit; and
a first case body for accommodating said storage controlling unit and a second case body accommodating said storage driving unit,
wherein said logic mounting unit mounts: a channel controlling unit to which the higher-level device is connected and that performs data transfer control; a disk controlling unit to which a memory device is connected and that performs data transfer control; a shared memory into which control information communicated by said channel controlling unit and said disk controlling unit is stored; and a connecting unit to which said channel controlling unit, said disk controlling unit, said cache memory, and said shared memory are connected,
said battery mounting unit is disposed at each lower portion of the case body of said storage controlling unit and the case body of said storage driving unit, and includes a nickel hydrogen battery which is disposed at each lower portion of the first case body of said storage controlling unit and the second case body of said storage driving unit, and is cooled by natural convection of air created inside the first case body of said storage controlling unit and the second case body of said storage driving unit by said fan.
8. A disk array device according to claim 7 ,
wherein said battery mounting unit carries out connection in the first case body of said storage controlling unit and the second case body of said storage driving unit, by a board feed connection using a connector.
9. A disk array device according to claim 7 ,
wherein said battery mounting unit mounts a capacitor for supplying a backup power source at a time of an instantaneous power failure.
10. A disk array device according to claim 7 ,
wherein said battery mounting unit has a slit for making air come through an inside of said battery mounting unit.
11. A disk array device according to claim 7 ,
wherein said battery mounting unit has a display unit for indicating each of a condition of said battery mounting unit and a charge condition of said nickel hydrogen battery, on a front surface thereof.
12. A disk array device according to claim 1 , wherein said battery is a nickel hydrogen battery.