The research of heartbeat detection technique for blade server

Abstract

The blade servers have been widely used in the telecommunications, financial and other big data processing fields as for the high efficiency, stability and autonomy. This study takes the hot redundancy design for dual-BMC management of blade servers as the research project, and puts forward a heartbeat detection program utilizing I2C for transmission of IPMI commands. And it’s successfully applied to the blade servers to achieve a hot redundancy, monitor and management of master/slave BMC management module, which is more standardized, reliable, and easy to implement.