1. Positive Disruption to the Data Centre Hardware Eco System in the 21st Century
Initially developed for Oct 2016 Frankfurt which was the first OCP event in Germany
John Laban 20th Oct V2

2. John Laban European Representative Reset Catalyst OCP Foundation @rumperedis
Discrediting the traditional 20th century computer room practices a few teaser  questions....
Reset Catalyst has …..Nothing to do with resetting proprietary cisco catalyst switches..its about mindsets

3. & Special thanks Ciara please stand up!
And thanks to you all for coming ..talking to the rear wall is not so much fun !

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

5. Email from Paulo (not his real name
from Paulo (not his real name!) six days before the Frankfurt OCP event. Scribbled out his details to protect him.
Paulo sells down flow CRAC cooling systems for enterprise data centres.
He called his “willfull blindness”

6. Subject title for Paulo’s email was
Wilful Blindness !!
Read the book willful blindness….you will then understand what Paulo means!

7. Kubler-Ross Change Curve
Hold tight and get ready for my 21st century roller coaster bare knuckle ride
at the
OCP Data Centre World
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!
Laban’s job title is Reset Catalyst

8. 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.

9. 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!
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10. Why 19 inch racks… are not sacrosanct
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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

11. This human design makes sense
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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

12. 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.

13. 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!!!!

14. Why tight control on relative humidity and temperature ?
Heat aging and constrained air flows with 40mm fans
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.

15. Why centralised UPS and battery rooms and mechanical chillers ?
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 Kushagra Vaid for graphics

16. Thanks to Kushagra Vaid for graphics

17. Thanks to Kushagra Vaid for graphics

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

19. Slide taken from Kushagra’s OCP Summit 2015 keynote.
LES = Local Energy Storage ; UPS in the computer room rack. MS OCP solutions puts Li-ion in server and storage chassis and other OCP solutions collocate with rectifier shelves in OCP open V2 racks.
Thanks to Kushagra Vaid for slide

20. 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

21. Open Source Ethernet Clos Fabrics & SDN These remove the need for urgent break fix maintenance ask these guys why I can fix the component next week ?
Leads into their presentations at the Frankfurt event
Mention impact of ocp on support staffing levels in data centres …a 99% reduction compared to 20th century designs and practices

22. 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
Laban’s job is to Reset Mindsets

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

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

25. Questions?

26. Appendix

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

28. CORD in Linux Foundation + TIP in OCP Foundation
Past
Future
This is a primer for the following presenters who will cover CORD and the telco transformation to OCP virtualised data centres
………..2019