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Open Compute Project (OCP) Awareness Course- a one day holistic overview of OCP and its transformational and disruptive impacts on traditional enterprise data centres

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Taster Session 19th November 2015

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Course prerequisites

• An interest in data centres

• A good secondary level education

• A working knowledge of the English language

• A willingness to participate in active classroom learning

• An open mind that is receptive to new design ideas and practices

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Course Sessions

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0. Introductions

1. OCP background

2. OCP Data Centre Subsystems & Technologies

3. OCP Network Technology

4. OCP Server Technology

5. OCP Storage Technology

6. OCP Hardware Management & Metrics

7. OCP disruptive impacts for enterprise data centres – course rolling workshop

8. Pre & Post course knowledge assessment quiz online

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Introductions

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0. Introductions

1. OCP background

2. OCP Data Centre Technology






8. Post course knowledge assessment quiz online

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Classroom Introductions

• Name• Organisation• Job title • What are your job tasks• What do you hope to take away from the course

five burning questions please from each person

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Personal learning outcomes

After attending this one day classroom course you will:

know what the OCP (Open Compute Project) and Open Hardware terms mean with respect to micro, small, medium and large enterprise data centres, and hyper-scale utility data centres

know the background to OCP and why and how it started know why OCP and Open Hardware will be a disruptive

transformational force for conventional enterprise data centres both in terms of capital and operational expenditure

know the global market intelligence in terms of investment comparisons between conventional and OCP data centres

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Personal learning outcomes …cont

know why the world’s largest manufacturers of servers, storage and network equipments are concerned about the impacts of OCP and how they are restructuring their corporations to meet the disruptive challenge posed by OCP and Open hardware data centres

know the importance of holistic design and appreciate how data centre subsystems are closely coupled and as such why a subsystem should not be treated in isolation

know the fundamental hardware components that make up an OCP data centre and the role of each of these components and how synergy is achieved between the ICT subsystems and the data centre power, cooling and environmental facilities and other subsystems including software

know the key differences between a conventional Enterprise Data Centre and a vanity free OCP data centre

be able to describe some examples of OCP data centres know the pros and cons between conventional enterprise data centres and

OCP data centres

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know why the Open community develops hardware products significantly faster than the conventional vendors

know why OCP data centres can achieve energy efficiencies with PUE’s better than 1.08 and why conventional enterprise data centres cannot

know why network topologies are so fundamentally different between conventional and OCP data centres

know how to design and plan for future transformation from conventional enterprise data centre to OCP data centre

know why large USA Banks are rapidly adopting OCP know why homogeneous OCP data centres can achieve data centre

operational staffing levels that are one hundred times better than conventional heterogeneous enterprise data centres

know the principles of simplicity know all of the data centre subsystems and be able to mind map them

graphically in the pursuit of simplification

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know how hardware efficiencies can be achieved through the use of software and lightweight virtual machines such as Linux Containers

know the fundamentals of SDN (Software Defined Networks) and why this technology is reducing the cost of Ethernet switches by 50%

know why the new OCP racks are so space efficient and do not follow the legacy 19inch fixing practice developed in 1911 for railway signalling systems

know the fundamentals of the Value Management Method and be able to execute a basic systematic Function Analysis

know why OCP data centres use significantly less resources compared to conventional enterprise data centres

know how to plan enterprise data halls to ease migration towards OCP

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Personal learning outcomes … cont

know why OCP servers are so much more energy efficient and lower cost than conventional servers

know the differences in data hall ICT equipment power and network interfacing and why OCP equipment cord interfaces are all on the front

know why modern OCP servers do not include conventional AC/DC power supply units

know why OCP data centres do not require generator backup for 100% capacity

know why OCP data centres do not use centralised UPS know why OCP data centres do not require refrigeration cooling

systems and the benefits of this approach know why OCP data centres do not need to operate within the

constraints of the ASHRAE temperature envelopes……………

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OCP background

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0. Introductions

1. OCP background

2. OCP Data Centre Technology






8. Post course knowledge assessment quiz online

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ICT costs at scale unaffordable

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OCP Background – Frank Frankovsky

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OCP Background – OCP Foundation

http://www.opencompute.org/about/organization-and-board/

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OCP Background – what is value?

Does a $3,000 to $5,000 server need to look expensive ?

What function does the server’s looks contribute to its use ?

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Five HDD and three servers wide for OCP

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ServerOne thirdOpen rack wide

Storagefive HDD Open rack wide

Large CPUHeat sinks

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End for now …..

……. to be continued shortly at a class near you

• OCP Awareness Course launches Istanbul 7th December 2015

• Hope to meet you again on a future OCP awareness course

• For further information

– Email [email protected]

– Mobile + 44 (0) 7710 124487

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