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Introduction to MegaRAC® PM Product Overview

Thursday, June 10, 2010

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Why to Choose AMI?

• Flexible development team focused on OEM needs

• A history of successful accomplishments in server management

• Complete server management offerings with rich development

tools means AMI is a one-stop-shop for management and

firmware: AMI understands platform porting

• First-class technology, always one step ahead of the market

• A solid company with more than 20 years of experience in

hardware and firmware

• Vast experience in system management and firmware leads to

innovative solutions which can be applied to remote

management of server, storage, client or embedded platforms

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Multiple System Management

Challenges

FRU,Asset.SDR

Sensor&

Status

ConsoleRedirection

(SOL)

RecoveryConsole

Alerting

SystemEventLog

IPMI responds to an essential set of

server management challenges





Flexible Software Solutions

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Essential Platform Management• Board level Management

• Highly integrated solution

• All necessary instrumentation (“plumbing”) provided

MegaRAC-PMBasic Remote Management

Complete Out-of-service Management• Complete Remote Management

• Proper for Management of Servers, Storage Servers and Cluster Servers

• Centralized management for multiple number of BMCs & System/Chassis/Rack wide provisioning

MegaRAC-SPAdvanced Remote Management

AMI offers two flexible firmware solutions for

dealing with system management challenges





Platform Management Technologies

SMASH/CLP

PCIMgmt. Bus

CIM / WSMAN

SMBus

SMBIOS

Sensors ControllersTests

& Tools

ACPI

IPMI

Software

Platform

Infrastructure

Component





What is IPMI?

• Integrated Server Management

• Platform independent

• Common, abstracted, message based

• Sensor monitoring, health alerts, side-band access

• Side-Band access to the platform

• Promoters: Intel, HP, NEC, Dell

IntelligentPlatformManagementInterface





Promoters, Adopters, & Contributors of the

IPMI Specification

• Published adopters list includes 210 companies and

counting

• AMI is among the earliest adopters / promoters

ABIT Computer Corp. Acer Incorporated Acxiom Corporationα Adaptecα ADTRON Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.Agilent Technologies GmbHβ Alberta Microelectronic Corporation Alliance Semiconductor Corporationα Allion Computer Inc. Altiris, Inc.American Megatrends IncorporatedAmphus Inc. Ample Communications Inc.Arima Computer Corp. Artesyn Communication Products, Inc. ASIS LTD. ASPEED Technology Inc.ASUSTek Computer Incorporated ATEN International Co., Ltd.Aventail Corporation Avian Communications Avocent Corporation Axil Computer, Inc. Blue Wave Systems Bull S.A. C&D Technologies, Inc. California Digital Corp.

Celestica ColoWATCH, Inc Communication Automation Corporation Compellent Technologies, Inc.Concurrent Technologies PLCConvey Computer CorporationCorEdge Networks Inc.C-MAC Engineering CyberGuard Corporation Cyclades CorporationData General Corporation Decru, Inc. Dell Computer CorporationDegree Controls, Inc.Demac Associates Digi International Egenera, Inc. ElanVital Corporation Ericsson UAB ESO Technologies Eurosoft (UK) Ltd.Evans & Sutherland Eversys Corporation Exabyte Corporation Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. (XES) Fabric7 Systems, Inc. First International Computer, Inc. Flextel SpAFlextronics International

FORCE Computers GmbH Forward Technologies Freedom Technologies Corporation (FreeBSD Systems) FreeIPMI Core Team Fujitsu LimitedFujitsu Siemens Computers Gambit Communicationsα Gluon Networks, Inc. GNHSoft, Inc.α GoAhead Software, Inc. HADCO Corporation HCL Infosystems Ltd. Hewlett-Packard CompanyHewlett-Packard GmbH Hitachi Ltd.Hybricon Corporation IBM Corporationα I-Bus/Phoenix Corporation ICP Electronics Inc. INLINE CorporationInnoMediaLogic Inc ………………………

…and your company!





MegaRAC PM vs. SP-X

• AMI main software solutions provide our Customers the ability to be flexible in their designs and product offerings:

– MegaRAC-PM - Platform Manager (known as PM) is currently ported to uCOS-II & ThreadX. Consists of a compact IPMI 2.0 -compliant software stack with Serial Over LAN (SOL) functionality. Offers OEMs an entry-level solution primarily targeted towards high-volume servers and embedded appliances.

– MegaRAC-SP - Service Processor (known as SP, or SP-X in the newestimplementation) is a Linux based software offering scalable remote managementfeatures such as IPMI 2.0, vMedia (Virtual Media), vKVM (Virtual KVM),WSMAN, SMASH, CIM and other. The SP software is primarily utilized by OEMsthat are shipping mid-range to high-end systems, such as servers, storage, andblade and cluster server solutions.

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MegaRAC Software

OS Type IPMI 2.0Serial over

LANvMedia vKVM SMASH WSMAN CIM DCMI PDK PMCP

MegaRAC Development

Studio

PM UCOS-II & ThreadX √ √ √ √ √

SP Linux √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √ √

Please note this is a limited feature set utilized for comparison only.

MegaRAC-PM and MegaRAC-SP High Level Comparison Chart





What is MegaRAC-PM

• A compact IPMI Stack running on uCOS Real Time

OS (requires 256 KB; may reach 1MB with

extended features )

– IPMI 2.0 support

– Software Development Kit (SDK)

– Flash Update Utilities

• Support for BMCs from Renesas & others

– Renesas H8S 2166/67/68

– Renesas H8S 2462/63/72

– Renesas H8S 2164

– PowerPC/ RISC/ MIPS

– Easily ported to other BMCs

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Why to Choose MegaRAC PM?

• Reduced footprint (256k to 1MB)

• Defined features at a predictable cost

• OEMs can use the MegaRAC HM880 reference kit,

including design schematics, to speed up

integration

• Complete IPMI 2.0 infrastructure provides sensor

management, alert and remote serial console (SOL)

• Extensions and customizations are possible

• Great tools for platform porting with

PMCP and PDK

• High Return Of Investment (ROI)

• Low TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)

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MegaRAC PM 4.0 Block Diagram

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BMC

Southbridge, Super IO

LPC Bus

SMBus

Serial Port

Switching Logic

Super IO

SideBand

Serial Port

Connector

IPMI & OEM Signals

Southbridge, Super IO,

Switches, LEDs etc.

I2C Bus IPMB, HW Monitor,Power Supply, DIMM, Chipset, PCI Slots etc.

RMII

Dedicated LAN





Sensor Management Advantage

• Graphical interface to draw the sensor configuration

• Auto generate necessary „code‟ required for sensor

management

• Project merge capability– Multiple engineers can work simultaneously

– Tool can merge the changes to a master project

• XML based

– All project information is saved as XML based data

• Support for batch mode

– This can be integrated to the main “MAKE” environment

• Backward compatibility– Migration from the old project to the new format

– No redrawing of the old schematic is required

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MegaRAC-PM Sensor Support List

ADM1024.ddfADM1026.ddfADT7463.DDFBladeEntity.ddfBp.ddfChassisIntrusion.ddfCurrent.ddfDigital.ddfDigitalE.ddfDIMM.ddfDiscrete.ddfEntity.ddfEntityAssociation.DDFEntityPresence.ddfEpilog.asmEventRecord.ddfFAN.DDFFANModuleEntity.ddfFRUDevicelocator.ddfFRUDevicelocatorE.ddfGeneralDeviceLocator.ddfGeneralDeviceLocatorE.ddf

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Pins.cfgPowerSupply.ddfPowerUnit.ddfProcessor.ddfProcessorEntity.ddfProlog.asmPSEntity.ddfregPLD.ddfRemoteSCEntity.ddfSMM150.ddfTemp.DDFTempE.ddfTunnelEntity.ddfVoltage.DDFVoltageE.ddfW83782D.ddf….

H8.ddfLED.ddfLM75.ddfLM81.ddfLM84.ddfLM85.ddfLM86.ddfLM87.ddfLM93.ddfLTC4260.ddfMax1608.ddfMgntCtrDevice.ddfMPC8245.ddfMPC8248.ddfPCA9544.ddfPCA9545.ddfPCA9553.ddfPCA9555.ddfPCF8575.ddfPEMEntity.ddf Addition of new

sensors is effortlesswith PMCP





PM Feature Focus: IPMI 2.0 & beyond

Side-band Manageability over Board LAN NIC, Intel 82541/82574/82576

System Interface

Event Log (SEL)

Sensor Support

Detailed System Information

SDR Repository

FRU Information

Health Monitoring, Watchdog Timer

LAN Alerting

Event Generation

PEF, Event Action

Serial over LAN

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Firmware Upgrade over all interfaces

Firmware update via HPM.1 (PICMG)

Dual Firmware Image Support

Optional tools for platform porting

Remote Power Control

Encryption

Enhanced authentication

DCMI 1.0

Customization Options:





PM-LITE: Ideal for Embedded

• Supports Renesas H8S 2168 BMC only

• Compact Code Requires only 40KB RAM + 16K EPROM

– Side-band Manageability over Board LAN NIC

– Supports dedicated LAN NIC

– Implements IPMI 2.0 Specification• System Interface, Event Log (SEL), Sensor Support, Detailed System Information

• SDR Repository

• FRU Information

• Health Monitoring, Watchdog Timer, LAN Alerting, Event Generation, Serial over

LAN

• Remote Power Control: Reset, Power On/Off, Power Cycle, Graceful Shutdown

• Remote Management Control Protocol

• Encryption

• Enhanced authentication

– Supports PMCP Graphical Porting Utility with “Drag-n-

Drop” Interface for Sensor Configuration

– Supports PDK Utility for OEM Extension and Customization

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SP-X IPMI Stack – Quick Comps

• Proven, very robust, now at version 4.0

• Based on a Linux 2.6 based Kernel

– It‟s a challenge to optimize timings for the Linux OS instead

of an RTOS, but AMI obtained great results

• Small footprint, focus on performance

– SoL performance: 4KB (32Kbits) throughput with AES encryption

– Fast KCS timing: response time ≈1ms

• Gathers sensor info in a faster, more efficient way. The

compilation of the SDR table is almost instantaneous

• Advanced fan control algorithms

• Supports DCMI

• Optional porting tools revolutionize platform porting with

easy GUI, code reuse

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MegaRAC PM & SP Feature

Comparison

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IPMI 2.0

BMC

IPMI 2.0Management

KVM

Virtual

Media

Firewall

SSH/SSL

Web

Interface

SNMP (v3)

Email Alert

Event Log

SDKDevelopment

Kit

IPMI 2.0

BMC

IPMI 2.0Management

KVM

Virtual

Media

Firewall

SSH/SSL

Web

Interface

SNMP (v3)

Email Alert

Event Log

SDKDevelopment

Kit

IPMI 2.0

BMC

IPMI 2.0Management

KVM

Virtual

Media

Firewall

SSH/SSL

Web

Interface

SNMP (v3)

Email Alert

Event Log

SDKDevelopment

Kit

IPMI 2.0

BMC

IPMI 2.0Management

KVM

Virtual

Media

Firewall

SSH/SSL

Web

Interface

SNMP (v3)

Email Alert

Event Log

SDKDevelopment

Kit

SMASH/

CLP

SMASH/

CLP

SMASH/

CLP

IPMI 2.0

BMC

IPMI 2.0Management

KVM

Virtual

Media

Firewall

SSH/SSL

Web

Interface

SNMP (v3)

Email Alert

Event Log

SDKDevelopment

Kit

SMASH/

CLP

eDMF eDMF eDMF eDMF

WS-MAN WS-MAN WS-MAN

Multiple BMC

Management

Multiple BMC

Management

CIM

IPMI 2.0

BMC

IPMI 2.0Management

KVM

Virtual

Media

Firewall

SSH/SSL

Web

Interface

SNMP (v3)

Email Alert

Event Log

SDKDevelopment

Kit

SMASH/

CLP

eDMF

WS-MAN

Multiple BMC

Management

CIM

Web

Services

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What is DCMI?

• Still based on the Intelligent Platform Management

Interface

• Addresses High Density Data Centers (HDDCs)– Locations where tens of thousands of blade servers are deployed have unique

needs in terms of manageability. The use of power is a major component of

HDDC costs, both capital and operational. DCMI strengthens sensing and

management of power consumption and temperature control.

• DCMI defines a concise sub-set of IPMI commands– Years of deployment have shown that some IPMI commands and interfaces are

most frequently used, such as in-band management tools; while commands that

are not necessary have been purged to reduce footprint & costs.

• Adds a few new commands to augment manageability

of HDDCs– In DCMI, instrumented power supplies report primary power usage on a per-

server basis to understand how a given application performs for the power that its

host server consumes. Centralized Management consoles have a richer sensor

info basis to aggregate or process power data.

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PMCP

• Platform Management

Configuration Program

• A vital centerpiece around which

AMI‟s IPMI stack is built

• Used by porting engineers and

OEMs to customize IPMI

firmware

• Complete Graphical Interface

• One-stop tool for project

management to sensor porting

management

• Very easy to use, augments

engineers productivity

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