1. How the Open Compute hardware community gets rid of all the traditional overkill in Enterprise Datacenters
John Laban

2. John Laban
Reset Catalyst
OCP Foundation
@rumperedis
Who am I

3. Agenda What is OCP Resetting intuitive mindsets
Traditional Data Centre
Traditional server rack
Software eats hardware
OCP optimised Data Centre
Thought for the day
Agenda

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 positively disrupting the 20th Century Data Century Industry
What is OCP
Ask me afterwards for more details about OCP and getting involved in the community

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

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

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

9. OCP vanity free server

10. OCP Platinum Members Ask the audience if they know QCT, Wiwynn
Emphasis Delta during the presentation and how big a player they are in OCP power systems globally

11. Emphasise the telcos and Rittal
See Rittal YouTube video

14. Resetting intuitive mindsets
Open source collaboration is a better way
Construct Data Centre facilities at half the cost of traditional
Servers that use 30% less energy
Software that eats 80% of the physical server nodes
Data Centre PUE’s better than 1.1
99% reduction in server support technicians
Resetting intuitive mindsets

15. Traditional Enterprise Datacenter
Enterprise data centre located in UK
Uptime Institute Tier III
Centralised UPS with 15min VRLA batt autonomy
Split DX down flow CRACs into access floor
144 racks totalling 6,480 EIA rack Units
70% of U’s filled with servers = 4,536 nodes
Average 5 kW load per rack
PUE = 1.8
IT Load = 720 kW
Total facility load = 1,296 kW
Annual kW hrs = 11,352,960
Annual electricity kW hr = £1,135,296
Annual UK CO2e = _________ kg (see slide notes)
24 racks
Traditional Enterprise Datacenter
Assume all rack units used to 100% capacity with 70% servers; 20% storage ; 10% network
Emission Factor, kgCO2e / kWh =
See table page 22 at

16. Traditional Server Rack

17. 20th Century Gear 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.
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18. Software eats hardware
€ 5,500 per year for 38 million cars in France (10% of French GDP)
96% time stopped
0.5% in traffic jams
0.8% looking for parking
2.7% travelling from A to B (its Function)
3 out of 4 journeys have one person in car
Asset efficiency is very low!
Software eats hardware
Radio 4 In Business interview
Frederic Mazzella
CEO & Founder
Bla Bla Car
OCP V1 18

19. Software eats hardware
What is the ICT asset efficiency in traditional enterprise data centre ?
Software eats hardware

20. Software eats hardware
Virtual Machines
33% less
66%
less
Software eats hardware
No VMs
Heavy weight VMs
2008
Light weight VMs
2018

21. Software eats hardware
Hack & Hip Hop Virtual Machines
Software eats hardware
80% less web server nodes
No HHVMs
With HHVMs

22. OCP optimised datacenter
Some of the over kill removed from a
traditional enterprise data centre
OCP optimised datacenter

23. OCP optimised datacenter
Traditional
OCP
Mechanical Cooling
yes no
Access Floors
Centralised UPS
Intelligent PDU’s
450
Racks
144
110
Server nodes
4,536
2,994
Server AC/DC PSU’s
9,072
110 rack rectifier shelves
PUE
1.8
Better than 1.3
DC Facility construction cost
$10,000,000
Reduces by > 50%
Annual Electricity Cost
£1,135,296
Reduces by >£500,000
OCP optimised datacenter
A traditional server AC/DC power supply weighs about 1 kg . We have removed almost one tonne of these.
DC facility construction cost approximately $10 million per MW.

24. Thought for the day Colo space in Europe expanded by 20%
whilst global server market shrinks 5%
Thought for the day

25. John Laban Reset Catalyst OCP Foundation European Region
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