Sanmina Corporation

Ritesh Kumar

Franz Michael Schuette

Charles C Hill

Odie Banks Killen, Jr

Matthew Phillip Mitchell

Lawrence Allan Freymuth

Matthew T Bowman

Eugene McCabe

Daniel M Gale

Donald Chong Lee

An input/output module (IOM) for use within a network storage system mounted within a rack enclosure. The IOM includes a switching component configured to provide top-of-rack (TOR) switching for data to be routed from input connectors to data storage devices within the rack enclosure. The IOM also includes a protocol interface configured to convert a protocol of the data from an input data protocol (e.g., Ethernet, Fibre Channel or InfiniBand™) to a protocol for use with the storage devices (e.g., nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) and Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe)). Among other features, the IOM allows switching to be dis-aggregated from a TOR switch and distributed throughout the data network of the rack.

Dis-aggregated switching and protocol configurable input/output module

A network-attached storage device is provided comprising a network card with an embedded operating system that provides autonomous operation of the network card, the network card including a network port to communicate with an external device and a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) interface to couple to a first PCIe device in the absence of a system host processor.

Modular non-volatile memory express storage appliance and method therefor

One feature pertains to cooling of a high density array of non-volatile memory mass storage devices within a computer enclosure. A coolant is moved through the enclosure through two separate air paths, each serving approximately half of the mass storage devices. The two air paths are interleaved in a central duct ported to a frontal and a rear plenum. The central duct contains two groups of fans with a flow axis perpendicular to the plane of the server enclosure but with opposite flow direction with the two groups vertically offset relative to each other. The two paths are separated from each other through dividers. Both paths intake coolant from the cold isle and exhaust the coolant to the hot isle. The non-volatile memory mass storage devices include electromechanical and solid state devices.

Apparatuses and methods for cooling high density arrays of non-volatile memory mass storage devices

One feature pertains to an advanced computer device configured for storing data on a plurality of non-volatile memory mass storage devices. The mass storage devices may interface with the computer device through a plurality of base boards mounted in an enclosure that are configured to couple with at least one non-volatile memory storage drive. Each base board may further be configured to couple with a high speed interconnect cable to exchange data to be loaded or stored with the computer device. According to one aspect, the high speed cable transfers Serially Attached SCSI (SAS) or PCIe data packets or frames.

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Ritesh Kumar