MIG 5th Data Centre Summit 2016 PTS Presentation v1

Opening Keynote – 2020 and Beyond: Enterprise Data Centre Trends and Prediction

Barry Lewington – Head of Data Centre Service Practice 6th December 2016

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Setting the Scene The Future of IT and Data Centres

CUSTOMERS IT SERVICE PROVIDER DATA CENTRE

SERVICE PROVIDER


The Challenges THE WORLD OF IT THE WORLD OF THE DATA CENTRE

DC REQUIREMENTS/ BRIEF Build for 15 to 20 years =

IT REQUIREMENTS = Build for 3 to 5 years

CONCEPT DESIGN Is IT evolution considered? Usually focused on power per rack =

SCHEMATIC DESIGN

DETAILED DESIGN

Focused on Space and Lay Out re Design Brief =

DESIGN / ARCHITECTURE

= Usually based on current / known technologies

CONSTRUCTION

MEP FIT OUT

Space / Power / Cooling / Security =

TEST (IST) Does it work as designed ? =

BUILD

FUNCTIONAL / SIT TEST

MODIFY

USER ACCEPTANCE

RELEASE

= Has IT considered the future DC requirements for the system

INFRA FIT OUT IT now involved – now reality sets in =

‘IF THERE IS ROOM IN THE RACK IT CAN BE HOUSED IN THE DC’ ‘I HAVE PLENTY OF POWER AND COOLING IN THE DC – THEY WILL NEVER USE MORE THAN ‘x’KW PER RACK! ’


What is the maximum power density (in kW) per rack in your Data Centre now and in two years?

Options 2kW or less >2 – 4 kW >4 – 8kW >8 – 12kW >12 – 16 kW >16 – 20 kW >20 – 24 kW > 24 kW Unsure Average

Now 2

2% 5

4% 45

35% 25

19% 19

15% 11 8%

3 2%

5 4%

15 12%

10.41kW

In Two years

0 0%

3 2%

20 15%

29 22%

32 25%

16 12%

5 4%

6 5%

19 15%

12.80kW

What is the average power density (in kW) per rack in your Data Centre now and in two years?

Options 2kW or less >2 – 4 kW >4 – 8kW >8 – 12kW >12 – 16 kW >16 – 20 kW >20 – 24 kW > 24 kW Unsure Average

Now 5

4% 41

32% 49

38% 13

10% 4

3% 2

2% 0

0% 1

1% 15

12% 5.83kW

In Two years

1 1%

13 10%

43 33%

33 25%

14 11%

6 5%

1 1%

2 2%

17 13%

8.9kW

Average Power per Rack

PER RACK (kW) HKCOLO NTT

TOWER 2 DRT /

CENTURYLINK iADVANTAGE

MEGA+ EQUINIX

HK2 TOWNGAS

HKTGN2 PCCW

MCX10

Avg. 4kW 7kW 3.6kW 4.2kW 2.3kW 3.6kW 4.1kW

Max. N/A 10kW N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

‘Data Center User Group (DCUG) Survey October 2014’

Survey of Hong Kong Data Centres – Average and Maximum Rack Power Densities


How does IT & DC see the Future THE WORLD OF IT THE WORLD OF THE DATA CENTRE

• Higher Density systems (Compute/Storage)

• Access to everything, everywhere, anytime

• Removal of systems locked to specific infrastructure (Virtualisation)

• Less reliance on a single Data Centre – systems running across multiple Data Centres – the demise of the DR facility (Active/Active)

• The Network is an integral part of the Data Centre – bandwidth cheaper, more available

• Multi-Providers delivering a single system (Cloud services)

• Its about the service not the infrastructure

• The demise of the Corporate customer to the Cloud/Infrastructure Service Provider

• Number of customers reducing

• The IT Service Provider growing in importance between the traditional ‘Colo’ Customer and DC Provider

• Space take up increasing

• Customers more demanding (pushing the limits on power density)

• Corporate clients taking shorter contracts (3 years rather than 7 years)

• The Data Centre is now a market place – colocation alone is not enough

• Its still about space / power / cooling / security


The IT Explosion

MOBILITY

CLOUD SERVICES

CYBER SECURITY

AGILITY

FLEXIBILITY

REDUCED COSTS

INTERNET OF THINGS

ALWAYS AVAILABLE

SOCIAL MEDIA

TECH SAVVY USERS

DATA ANALYTICS VIRTUAL

DESKTOPS

WEB BASED APPS

BIG DATA

BYOD /CYOD

WEARABLES

CASHLESS PAYMENTS

OPENSOURCE

NEW ENTRANTS

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE


IT Technology Infrastructure Evolution COMPUTE

STORAGE

‘PIZZA BOX’ SERVERS CHASSIS & BLADE SERVERS

DISK ARRAYS NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE & STORAGE AREA NETWORKS


The continued evolution of IT – Software and Infrastructure development in leaps continues

The concept of not just Virtual Machines but Containers too

IT will look to virtualise everything - this TODAY!

Virtualisation leads to the entrance to move to Cloud Services

Public / Private / Hybrid Cloud Services

Cloud Services encourages the implementation of Orchestration software to manage Cloud Services

Over 50 products on the market including leading software providers, IBM, HPE, Dell and OpenSource products

The Future of IT

The move away from Production and Disaster Recovery Data Centres to Primary/Secondary, Active/Active

Explosion in Cyber Security investment

Infrastructure Technology – already here

STORAGE Increase take up on Flash Storage and Solid State Drives

Move from physical tape backups to Virtual Tape

Continued increase in disk density per drive

COMPUTE Increased number of Physical servers per Chassis

Chip processing maintains course with Moores Law


The Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC)

Software Defined Compute (SDC) Software Defined Network (SDN)

Software Defined Storage (SDS) Software Defined Security (SDSec)

• Is not just a Virtual Machine also includes, Containers, Bare Metal Servers (Legacy)

• Is not just VMware, but also Hyper-V, Xen, KVM etc. • Ability to flex the processing/memory requirements as

demand dictates • Flexible services, can start up/shut down services as and

when needed

• A single dataset no longer needs to be located in one location

• Can link datasets across multiple storage devices (even in multiple locations) (SAN/NAS) to appear as a single dataset

• Virtualised Datasets are mapped to systems just like physical data

• Available today from HDS, EMC etc.

• Firewalls in their current mode as Appliances replaced by virtual Firewalls

• Allows Security services to move should they come under attack making it harder to penetrate

• Can increase processing power to key security systems when required

• Suppliers include Cloudpassage, vArmour etc.

• Allows SDN Applications to define their networking requirements for Storage and interaction with other SDN Apps

• The SDN App will tell the SDN Controller what its networking requirements are

• The SDN Controller sets out the networking paths required for the App to work including bandwidth and fastest connections

• Breaks the traditional fixed route paths


The evolution of Hyperconvergence Systems

• Nutanix • SimpliVity • Scale

Computing

• Pivot3 • Maxta • Nimboxx • Vmware

EVO:RAIL

• Gridstore • Stratoscale

(Software) • Atlantis

Computing Source - Nutanix

What is a Hyperconvergence system?

Typically an appliance that combines: Hypervisor

Compute

Storage

Provides storage switching with other IT services

When combined with additional building blocks, provides a single, scalable resource pool (seamlessly scales)

Leading suppliers:


In assessing the power of new infrastructure items used in the Data Centre - example

HP C7000 Chassis

with 13 Blade Servers with a plate value of 6.7kVA and an expected utilisation of 5.0kVA/4.96kW (80% plate value)

Chassis size is 10U / standard 42U rack could accommodate 4 chassis = 19.8kW

Nutanix – NX3060-G5 Appliance

Plate value – 1.764kW / Typical – 1.15kW

Appliance Height – 2U / standard 42U rack could accommodate 20 chassis = 23kW

There are Many More Examples

Future IT will have an impact on Data Centres

Source - HPE


The trend for IT is higher density – 10kW/20kW/30kW……. 60kW

New Data Centres being built with an average rack density of 5kW – 7kW

Traditional cooling methods in Data Centres become generally ineffective when average rack utilisation hits 10kW

Specific cooling is required to effectively dissipate the concentrated heat areas

Air is not the most effective medium for cooling

Bringing fluid cooling back as close to the heat source is required

New products now available to address the issue of high density cooling

The Challenge Ahead for IT and Data Centre Operators


Cooling Today

Downflow Cooling Cold Aisle Containment

Front-flow with Hot Aisle Containment

In Row Cooling


Examples of cooling products for High Density Racks

In rack cooling – two racks as a sealed unit cooled by a single cooling system server by chilled water. Air is circulated within the sealed racks. A single CRAH can cool racks up to total of 35kW

Source – Emerson Network Power

Fluid baser Server chip cooling is returning as an option for those brave enough.

Source – CoolIT

Source – Emerson Network Power


How will Data Centres continue to provide sufficient cooling to power hungry IT Systems?

There is a need to provide greater cooling capacity

The ratio of rack space to MEP space will change

The need to introduce new cooling methods – the cooling source must get closer to the heat source

Fluids will continue to be introduced back into the Data Hall as the need for greater densities continue

If IT power densities continue to increase as they are now then the Data Centres being built today will need to be quickly modified to keep pace.

Can the Data Centre Operators really keep pace with the IT evolution?

Final Thoughts

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