1. New Zealand Data Centres & Telcos turned upside-down by OCP
New Zealand Data Centres & Telcos turned upside-down by OCP to remove 20th century dross
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John Laban March Wellington New Zealand

2. John Laban Reset Catalyst OCP Foundation john. laban@opencompute
John Laban Reset Catalyst OCP Foundation @rumperedis
Must be seen to be green because Johns wife is the Sustainability strategic planner for the City of London Square Mile!!

3. And thanks to you all for coming and taking part because talking to an empty room is not so much fun !
I always try to make my audiences laugh out loud at least once.
My favourite standup comedian is Stewart Lee, watch him on YouTube

4. Had my eureka OCP moment when working at the Facebook data centre in Lulea Sweden.
My mission is to tell the data centre industry about OCP solutions and be a Reset Catalyst to move the 20th century data centre industry into the 21st century.

5. www.opencompute.org What is OCP ?
The Open Compute Project Foundation is a non profit open source hardware community which since its formation in 2011 has been disrupting the 20th Century Data Century Industry
Ask me afterwards for more details about OCP and getting involved in the community

6. Yes and OCP gear is available in NZ now

9. Cartoon representation of simplicity and complexity
Cartoon representation of simplicity and complexity. Thanks to XKCD for ink drawings throughout these slides.
Thanks to XKCD for ink drawings throughout these slides. Please by stuff from him as a thankyou
Not for profit use by John Laban and also to promote my favourite cartoonist

10. Frank says: Openness always wins in the end
OCP joint founder Frank F.
Embedded Youtube video in slide.

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

12. Share Prices
Proprietary hardware vendor
Open source hardware vendor
Bloomburg share price trend for proprietary hardware and open hardware vendor.

13. Patent Pools a habit of declining vendors in the ICT space.
See the case against Patents.
No Patents on Tesla Motors

15. Patent Pools a habit of declining vendors in the ICT space.
See the case against Patents.
No Patents on Tesla Motors

17. Disruptions from a five year duration OCP earthquake
in a single rack with 40 servers
20th Century Dross removed by OCP :
2 x TOR Switches
4 x Pluggable optics
86 x PSU’s
208 x 40mm Fans
4 x AC Power Strips
86 x IEC rear power cords
120 x RJ45 rear patch cords
N+1 CRAC units
Access Floor
Cables in floor
Based on 40 traditional one u servers in rack compared to the OCP equivalent

18. 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

19. 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.

20. 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

21. 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 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

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

23. 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

24. OCP server value engineering
Cables on rear because started as a desk top PC before being placed in a rack on a shelf.

25. Open Rack Unit innovations - Server fans “Cube Law”
40 mm
Fans
EIA
“U”
80 mm
Fans
OCP
“OU”
Fan Cube Law …halving the fan speed uses one eight the power.
Remember to include the fans in the dual power supply units. 25

26. Open Rack Unit innovations – large CPU heat sinks
Fan Cube Law …halving the fan speed uses one eight the power.
Remember to include the fans in the dual power supply units.
This is not an OCP heat sink 26

27. 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.

28. OCP v2 rack explainer video short

29. OCP v2 rack explainer video short by Menno at CircleB in Amsterdam Holland

30. Why access false floors in computer rooms ?
Δ Warning: Do not use access floors in seismic hazard zones Δ
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!!!!

31. 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.

32. 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

33. Thanks to Kushagra Vaid for graphics

34. Thanks to Kushagra Vaid for graphics

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

36. 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

37. Tool-less gear in white space …wow no screw drivers!!
See those green touch points.

38. A different approach to resilience @scale when using combination of software and hardware

39. The trickle down effect of vanity free open source OCP gear
OTT’s
Telcos
Enterprises

40. OCP Telco Project & openCORD

41. Open source unbundling
Source SK telecom

42. CE0 of a Black Box proprietary hardware solutions that lock-in the user and benefit the few at the expense of the majority

44. Kubler-Ross Change CurveSo
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

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

46. Questions?

47. Appendix

49. Technology Contribution Process
Member makes a contribution
Including technical documents
Reviewed by community
Voted by incubation committee
Posted on opencompute.org
Available to the public

50. Nine OCP Projects & Technologies
Incubation Committee
Project Leads
Storage
Data Centre
Open Rack
Server
Networking
HPC
HW Mgmt.
Interoperability
Telco

51. OCP Technology Principles
Efficiency - performance, cost, conversion & cooling
Scale out - Tool-less design, OCP compliant management tools and documentation
Openness - Open Source, Open Interface, OCP Compatible
Impact - Efficiency gains, simplicity and new technology, leverage/empower prior contributions and enhance supply chain

52. OCP Web Links and more information
Website -
Wiki
Mailing Lists -
Ask
John Laban
@rumperedis

53. 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!

54. Simplification of Components