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Fabric-defined Datacenters at Cloud-scale David Gauthier

Sr. Director, Datacenter Architecture

Microsoft Corporation

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50+ billion minutes of connections handled

each month

18+ billion Microsoft Azure Active Directory

authentications per week

2.4+ million emails per day

200+ Cloud Services 1+ billion customers · 20+ million businesses · 90+ markets worldwide

7+ billion worldwide queries each month

30+ trillion objects in Windows Azure

storage

3.5+ million subscribers

48+ million users in 41

markets

50+ million active users

400+ million

active users

250+ million

active users

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Datacenter evolution

Server

Capacity

20 year Technology

2.0+ PUE

Colocation

Generation 1

Density Rack

Density & Deployment

Minimized Resource Impact

1.4 – 1.6 PUE

Generation 2

2012 2009 1989-2005 2007

Containment

1.2 – 1.5 PUE

Containers, PODs

Scalability & Sustainability

Air & Water Economization

Differentiated SLAs

Generation 3

Modular

1.12 – 1.20 PUE

ITPACs & Colocations

Reduced Carbon Right-Sized

Faster Time-to-Market

Outside Air Cooled

Generation 4

Integrated

1.07 – 1.19 PUE

Integrated System

Resilient Software

Common Infrastructure

Operational Simplicity

Flexible & Scalable

Generation 5

Future

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Fabric Integration

SDDC for the cloud operator • Server, Network, Datacenter and Workflow

designed together

• Innovation at the boundaries

• Shared development roadmap

• Simplified infrastructure, resilient services

• Deep runtime telemetry & big data analytics

• Extreme efficiency

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Efficient by design Big data analytics • One million device sample pool

Server Optimization • Remove unnecessary components

• Smart power choices

• 415 volt distribution

• High efficiency DC conversions

Elevated Supply Temperatures • 10˚C – 32˚C; Time Weighted Average < 24˚C

Outside air cooling • Chiller-less adiabatic cooling

• Extremely low energy consumption

S. Sankar, K. Vaid, M. Shaw “Impact of Temperature on Hard Disk Drive Reliability in Large

Datacenters” Microsoft, IEEE, 2011

HDD Case Temp Relative AFR HDD Case Temp Relative AFR

10 C 50 F 11 C 100% 30 C 100%

15 C 59 F 16 C 100% 34 C 100%

20 C 68 F 21 C 100% 38 C 100%

25 C 77 F 26 C 100% 41 C 106%

30 C 86 F 31 C 100% 45 C 131%

35 C 95 F 36 C 100% 49 C 153%

40 C 104 F 41 C 106% 53 C 189%

45 C 113 F 46 C 138% 56 C 231%

50 C 122 F 51 C 179% 60 C 281%

HDD's in Front, ΔT 1˚CBuried HDDs Des ign, ΔT 20˚C

cold de-rated to ΔT 10˚C hotInlet Temp

Inlet Temperature and Impact on Hard Disk Failure Rates

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In-rack fuel cell research

• Natural gas converted directly to electricity to power servers

• Wastewater treatment methane recovery pilot

Dramatic improvement in holistic efficiency

• Beyond PUE – removes losses inherent in energy production and delivery

• Efficient energy supply chain from source to motherboard

Increased datacenter reliability

• Fewer moving parts, fewer potential points of failure. Increased global commonality

Lower infrastructure costs

• Elimination of electrical distribution, power conditioning, and back-up infrastructure

Energy innovation

Fuel Cell

Substation Substation

Server

Datacenter

CPU

Server

Datacenter

CPU

Radically simplified supply chain delivers more data with less resources

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Think, design, deliver differently at cloud-scale

Cloud-Scale IS… Resilient services

Solving hardware problems in software

Self-healing solutions that route around failures

Enabling the business

Cloud-Scale is NOT…

Brittle software or networks

Relying on redundancy or special purpose hardware

People watching screens and responding to alerts

Reacting to the business

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Microsoft Datacenter Resources

Microsoft Datacenters Web Site & Team Blogs microsoft.com/datacenters

Windows Azure Trust Center windowsazure.com/trustcenter

Office 365 Trust Center trustoffice365.com

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