1. Bringing the disruption of OCP to the land of orange
John Laban Feb Netherlands

2. 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!!

3. Ancient Carrot
Hoorn Long Dutch Orange Carrot

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

7. Bloomburg share price trend for proprietary hardware and open hardware vendor

8. 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

9. 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!

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

11. 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.

12. 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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13. Why 19 inch racks… are not sacrosanct
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(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

14. 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

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

16. 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.

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

18. 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.

19. 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!!!!

20. 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.

21. 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

22. Thanks to Kushagra Vaid for graphics

23. Thanks to Kushagra Vaid for graphics

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

25. 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

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

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

28. Questions?

29. Appendix

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

31. 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