Local management console for storage devices

Abstract

A local management console includes: a communication interface to connect to a baseboard management controller (BMC) of a chassis in a data storage rack; and a display that displays information associated with one or more data storage devices included in the chassis. The information includes at least one of configuration, control, debugging, or status data associated with at least one of the one or more storage devices. The local management console connects to the BMC through the communication interface, and responsive to receiving a first interaction associated with the display, performs at least one of a configuration, control, debugging, or status acquisition operation on at least one of the one or more data storage devices.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A local management console comprising:
 a communication interface to connect to a baseboard management controller (BMC) of a chassis in a data storage rack; and   a display that displays information associated with one or more data storage devices in the chassis, the information comprising at least one of configuration, control, debugging, or status data associated with at least one of the one or more storage devices;   wherein the local management console connects to the BMC through the communication interface, and responsive to receiving a first interaction associated with the display, performs at least one of a configuration, control, debugging, or status acquisition operation on at least one of the one or more data storage devices.   
     
     
         2 . The local management console of  claim 1 , wherein the data storage devices are nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) over fabrics (NVMe-oF) devices. 
     
     
         3 . The local management console of  claim 1 , wherein the communication interface is a wired communication interface selected from system management bus (SMbus), a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe), and Ethernet. 
     
     
         4 . The local management console of  claim 1 , wherein the communication interface is a wireless communication interface selected from wireless local area network (WLAN), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). 
     
     
         5 . The local management console of  claim 1 , wherein the display shows data, a message, a graph, a service light indicating a status of the data storage devices to a local administrator. 
     
     
         6 . The local management console of  claim 5 , wherein a remote administrator connects to the local administrator and sets up permissions and restrictions on functionalities to the local management console. 
     
     
         7 . The local management console of  claim 1 , wherein data that the local management console sends to the BMC include configuration commands of the data storage devices. 
     
     
         8 . The local management console of  claim 7 , wherein the configuration commands include commands for configuring a new data storage device or removal of an existing data storage device, and updating existing features for the data storage devices. 
     
     
         9 . The local management console of  claim 7 , wherein the configuration commands are commands to configure accessibility to the data storage devices including an IP address, an Ethernet address, and switch configuration of the chassis. 
     
     
         10 . The local management console of  claim 1 , wherein the local management console sends an instruction to the BMC to monitor performance, capacity, or remaining life for the data storage devices. 
     
     
         11 . The local management console of  claim 1 , wherein data that the BMC sends to the LMC include statistical data, status, logs, input/output (I/O) performance, health status, remaining life, alerts, network statistics, vendor-defined parameters of the data storage devices and the chassis. 
     
     
         12 . The local management console of  claim 1 , the display shows data of a desirable granularity including data per data storage device, data per chassis, data per rack, data for a set of data storage devices across the chassis or the data storage rack, data for a set of chassis, and data for an entire datacenter. 
     
     
         13 . A data storage system comprising:
 a host computer including an application;   a data storage rack including one or more chassis, wherein each chassis includes an Ethernet switch, a baseboard management controller (BMC), and one or more data storage devices; and   one or more local management consoles,   wherein each of the local management consoles includes:
 a communication interface to connect to a baseboard management controller (BMC) of a chassis in a data storage rack; and 
 a display that displays information associated with one or more data storage devices included in the chassis, the information comprising at least one of configuration, control, debugging, or status data associated with at least one of the one or more storage devices, 
   wherein each of the local management consoles connects to the BMC of each chassis through the communication interface, and responsive to receiving a first interaction associated with the display, performs at least one of a configuration, control, debugging, or status acquisition operation on at least one of the one or more data storage devices.   
     
     
         14 . The data storage system  claim 13 , wherein the application running on the host computer accesses data storage in the data storage devices via Ethernet, and the data storage devices are nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) over fabrics (NVMe-oF) devices. 
     
     
         15 . The data storage system  claim 13 , wherein the display of each of the display management consoles shows data, a message, a graph, a service light indicating a status of the data storage devices to a local administrator. 
     
     
         16 . The data storage system  claim 13 , wherein a remote administrator connects to the local administrator and sets up permissions and restrictions on functionalities to the local management console. 
     
     
         17 . The data storage system  claim 13 , wherein data that each of the local management consoles sends to the BMC include configuration commands of the data storage devices. 
     
     
         18 . The data storage system  claim 17 , wherein the configuration commands include commands for configuring a new data storage device or removal of an existing data storage device, and updating existing features for the data storage devices. 
     
     
         19 . The data storage system  claim 17 , wherein the configuration commands are commands to configure accessibility to the data storage devices including an IP address, an Ethernet address, and switch configuration of the chassis. 
     
     
         20 . The data storage system  claim 13 , wherein the one or more local management consoles connect to a central local management console, and wherein the one or more local management consoles and the central local management console have a different level of permissions and restrictions on functionalities to manage the chassis and the data storage devices.