Description

The VadaTech VT018 is VadaTech next generation Shelf Manager (previous generation VT008) which is form, fit and functionally compatible to the Intel® Model MPCMM0002. The VT018 is a 5W module. The VT018 can also run as a protocol analyzer to monitor, inject, capture and validate I2C traffic on the Intelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB) on all the radial busses. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) validates and displays the IPMI packets or schedules IPMI messages for injection into the shelf. The GUI application communicates with the VT018 through the Ethernet port.

The VT018 has true radial bussing with dual FPGAs for redundancy. Each IPMI bus has a 64-byte FIFO to allow for a full IPMI packet on each I2C bus so there is no packet loss during operation.

When two VT018s are in the system, they operate in redundant active/standby mode. During operation one VT018 is active while the second one is synchronized in hot standby mode. The VT018 is fully hot-swappable to minimize service down time.