Bringing the disruption of OCP to the land of orange John Laban 14 Feb 2017 Netherlands

John Laban European Representative OCP Foundation @rumperedis Must be seen to be green because Johns wife is the Sustainability strategic planner for the City of London Square Mile!!

Ancient Carrot Hoorn Long Dutch Orange Carrot

But not all things orange Belong to the Dutch Orange are active OCP Member Tell the story about openCORD and the OCP Telco Project …….poetic licence because Orange are French. Orange are active OCP members.

Opportunities as smaller enterprise data centres evaporate Telcos & openCORD Opportunities as smaller enterprise data centres evaporate Tell the story about openCORD and the OCP Telco Project …….poetic licence because Orange are French. Orange are active OCP members.

Lets look at some company share price trends Lets look at some company share price trends.. preparing the audience for graphs

Bloomburg share price trend for proprietary hardware and open hardware vendor

What does OCP kill in Data Centres ? Centralised UPS and Batteries and those rooms that house them Access Floors Intelligent Power Strips Tools Power Supply Units in ICT gear 20th Century Stupidity Complexity Hardware redundancy Support Technicians Money, energy and material waste Low quality – open source provides better products Proprietary hardware and user lock-in

Get ready for a 21st century roller coaster bare knuckle ride at Data Centre World I might be killing off your babies in the nest fifteen minutes!

Example of simplicity or is it complexity Example of simplicity or is it complexity. Thanks to XKCD for ink drawings throughout these slides

Discrediting 20th Century Data Centres Why 19 inch racks ? Why cabling interfaces on the rear of servers ? Why access false floors in computer rooms ? Why tight control on relative humidity and temperature ? Why centralised UPS and battery rooms and mechanical chillers ? Why rapid break fix and hardware redundancy ? Discrediting the traditional 20th century computer room practices ......a few teaser  questions.... From the point of view of the 21st century what we did in the 20th century is lamentable and oh, oh, oh so wasteful and downright stupid.

Why 19 inch relay racks ? 19ich width great for telegraph and railway electromechanical relays. Show of hands …how many of you are fitting relays like these into your data centre computer room racks…yes a big no! Module Container

Why 19 inch racks… are not sacrosanct Module Container (note Green Touch Points) OCP wide uses cabinet allows 25% increase in in HDDs . Width was more than optimising for 4inch wide HDD….see Amir email with reasons relating to the Freedom server. See the OCP third width servers on display outside of this room. Open Vault (old name Knox) offers high disk densities, holding 30 drives in a 2U chassis. Increasing rail widths does not increase overall width of rack so they would still fit a 2ft floor grid http://www.opencompute.org/blog/introducing-the-open-rack/

This human design makes sense Module Container See my “screws screws screws why we do the things we do” presentation from Data Centre Conference South at the Barbican in 2015. This presentation takes it to a Monty Pyhonist level of ridiculous humour with candles and chickens. When people laugh there mindsets become malleable Barbican presentation available on request from john.laban@jrlaban.com

or perhaps 19inches is related to bee hives TOS = Terms Of Service

Why are cabling interfaces on the rear of servers ? LAN on front OCP server value engineering Cables on rear because started as a desk top PC befor being placed in a rack on a shelf.

OCP server value engineering Cables on rear because started as a desk top PC befor being placed in a rack on a shelf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHer0URWUQI&t=77s

Server fans and rack Unit innovations 40 mm Fans EIA “U” 80 mm Fans OCP “OU” Cube Law is the relationship between a centrifugal pump or fans speed and its energy need is known as Cube Law. ... A pump or fan running at half speed consumes only one eighth of the power compared to one running at full speed.

Why access false floors in computer rooms ? Used for water pipes and not air cooling. Water pipes below so when they leaked the mainframe did not go pop! Air buoyancy means its better practice to pour cool denser air down into warmer room, and not blow it up from the bottom. Note printers and seat/desk positions for people in room. Back then people did not use black racks!!!!

Why tight control on relative humidity and air temperature ? Paper curls and jams printers in computer room if wide range of humidity. Paper today still has an up and down and should be placed in printers the right way up.

3D graphic and next few slide provided by OCP_US2015_KushagraVaid_Microsoft_Keynote_final.pdf Available from John Laban or the OCP web site wiki and YouTube channel Thanks to Microsoft & Kushagra Vaid for graphics

Thanks to Kushagra Vaid for graphics

Thanks to Kushagra Vaid for graphics

LES uses Li-ion BBU (Battery Backup Unit) in white space rack/chassis LES = Local Energy Store Thanks to Kushagra Vaid for graphics

Why rapid break fix and hardware redundancy ? 20th Century 21th Century Screws x nuts x washers = tools x tools Complex = infinite rack configurations Complex = maximum materials Resilience = hardware redundancy Green Touch points = no tools Simple = just six rack configurations Simple = minimal materials Resilience = software & chaos monkey proof

Tooless gear in white space …wow no screw drivers!!

non-profit Foundation Discrediting the traditional 20th century computer room practices ......a few teaser  questions.... Nothing to do with resetting proprietary cisco catalyst switches

Questions?

Appendix

OCP Web Links and more information Website - http://www.opencompute.org/ Wiki - http://www.opencompute.org/wiki Mailing Lists - http://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists Ask John Laban +44 7710 124487 john.laban@opencompute.org @rumperedis

Kubler-Ross Change Curve So where are you now ? Acceptance of the death does not occur until one has been through the earlier emotions. Reset Catalyst ….resetting peoples 20th century data centre mindsets so they can move on into the 21st century’s open source data centres