mig 5th data centre summit 2016 pts presentation v1
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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
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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! ’
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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
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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
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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
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IT Technology Infrastructure Evolution COMPUTE
STORAGE
‘PIZZA BOX’ SERVERS CHASSIS & BLADE SERVERS
DISK ARRAYS NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE & STORAGE AREA NETWORKS
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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
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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Cooling Today
Downflow Cooling Cold Aisle Containment
Front-flow with Hot Aisle Containment
In Row Cooling
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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
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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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