Open Compute has started the open sourcing of servers and data centers. Storage is another big area, and Netflix has shared its design.
The home page is here.
Netflix Open Connect Content Delivery Network
Around the world, people are enjoying nearly a billion hours per month of movies and TV shows from Netflix. Now, Netflix is enabling ISPs to get Netflix video data directly from Open Connect, a single-purpose content delivery network we've established.
Most of you want to see the HW.
Objectives
When designing the Open Connect Appliance Hardware, we focused on these fundamental design goals:
- Very high storage density without sacrificing space and power efficiency. Our target was fitting 100 terabytes into a 4u chassis that is less than 2' deep.
- High throughput: 10 Gbps throughput via an optical network connection.
- Very low field maintenance: the appliance must tolerate a variety of hardware failures including hard drives, network optics, and power supply units.
- Simple racking and installation. Front mounted power and network ports are the only things to connect at install time.
Here is the BOM for the HW.
Bill of Materials
Description Vendor & Model Quantity Chassis TST custom 1 Motherboard Supermicro X9SCM-F 1 Processor Intel E3-1260L 1 Memory 8GB ECC 1333MHz 4 Hard Drive Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 3TB 36 Hard Drive (alternate) Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB 36 Controller LSI SAS 9201-16i 16 port 2 Network card Supermicro AOC-STGN-i2S 1 Redundant Power Supply Unit (AC/DC options) Zippy MRW-5600V4V/DMRW-5600V4V 1 Misc. 2U active CPU Heatsink, SATA Cables, NIC optics
Then design has AC and DC power supplies.
There is 1 TB of flash.
We also add 1 TB of flash storage (2 solid state drives) for system files, logs and popular content.
You can get more details on the site.
Open Connect