This ignite describes a fully open source datacenter, from open source hardware, firmware, and software. While a full stack developer may be an exception, a fully open source datacenter should not be. By using OpenPOWER hardware with open source designs, combined with open source firmware and open source software. It describes the hardware platform, the firmware choice and operating systems.

1. POWER your DC

2. BYOD
Build Your Own Datacenter

3. Open Source Software
⇔
Open Source Hardware

4. OpenPOWER
OpenCAPI

5. POWER8 platform
RISC ↔ CISC

6. Endian
ppc64le ⇔ ppc64
Little ⇔ Big Endian

7. Threading
SMT8
S : 2s x 12c x 8t = 192
E : 4s x 12c x 8t = 384

8. Open Firmware
OPAL : hostboot
IPL with nvram

9. Open Bootloader
skiboot + petitboot

10. Open Baseboard Management Controller
openbmc

11. Industry Standard Rack Server
Scale OUT and Scale UP
1U, 2U, 4U rack machines
1, 2, 4 socket machines

12. Manufacterers
• IBM
• SuperMicro
• Tyan
• Raptor Engineering
• Google
• Rackspace
• . . .

13. Open Source Distributions
• Red Hat (ppc64 and ppc64le)
• SuSE (ppc64 and ppc64le)
• Ubuntu (ppc64le)
• CentOS (ppc64 and ppc64le)
• PowerEL (ppc64 and ppc64le)
• FreeBSD (ppc64le)

14. Virtualization
KVM Qemu, Docker, LXC, . . .
LibVirt, OpenStack,
OpenNebula, . . .
1 host machine = 1000 vm

15. Commonly used OSS available
Porting applications is easy

16. Application Servers
Apache HTTP, Nginx, Tomcat,
Passenger, . . .

17. Databases
PostgreSQL,
MariaDB/MySQL, MongoDB,
Redis, . . .
MariaDB upto 1 billion TPS

18. Languages
C, C++, Golang, Java, . . .
Perl, Python, Ruby, . . .

19. Support for major open source
programming languages

20. May the POWER be with you
Toshaan Bharvani - <toshaan@vantosh.com>