System And Method For Flexible Storage And Networking Provisioning In Large Scalable Processor Installations
A system and method for provisioning within a system design to allow the storage and IO resources to scale with compute resources are provided.
1 . A printed circuit board, comprising:
one or more PCIe connectors through which power is routed;
one or more regulators connected to the printed circuit board that are powered by the one or more PCIe connectors and generate a regulated voltage;
one of a SATA, mSATA and miniSATA connector connected to the printed circuit board that are powered by the regulated voltage; and
wherein a storage component can be connected to the connector to power the storage component.
2 . The printed circuit board of claim 1 , wherein the storage component is one of a 2.5″ cased SATA drive, caseless SATA solid state device and an mSATA solid state device.
3 . The printed circuit board of claim 1 further comprising one of a SATA connector, mSATA connector and a miniSATA connector connected to the storage component through which a set of SATA signals from the storage component are communicated.
4 . The printed circuit board of claim 1 further comprising one of a SATA connector, mSATA connector and a miniSATA connector connected to the storage component through which a set of SATA signals from the storage component are communicated and the set of SATA signals are routed on the printed circuit board to the PCIe connectors.
5 . The printed circuit board of claim 3 further comprising a compute component connected to the printed circuit board using a SATA connector and the set of SATA signals are communicated to the compute component.
6 . The printed circuit board of claim 1 further comprising one or more digital enables that are routable through the PCIe connectors to allow external control of the one or more regulators.
7 . The printed circuit board of claim 1 further comprising one or more of a power good signal and an acknowledge signal are routable through the PCIe connectors from the one or more regulators.
8 . The printed circuit board of claim 6 further comprising a compute component connected to the printed circuit board and the compute component controls the digital enables.
9 . The printed circuit board of claim 1 further comprising a temperature sensor attached to the printed circuit board and a temperature sensor interface is routed through the PCIe connector.