Hardware Fault Management

The Hardware Fault Management Sub-Project operates under the direction of the OCP Hardware Management Project. It defines requirements for hardware fault management and works to standardize system behavior under hardware failures, so operators can rely on consistent, predictable responses across OCP platforms. The sub-project sets key baseline requirements for managing hardware errors to achieve target service levels, and provides reference material and guidance on system hardware failure management for the wider Open Compute community.

Hardware Fault Management

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John Leung

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About This Sub-Project

The Hardware Fault Management Sub-Project is under the direction of the OCP Hardware Management Project Group.

Scope

The Hardware Fault Management Sub-Project focuses on the following areas:

Requirements — requirements for hardware fault management
System Behavior — standardizing system behavior under hardware failures
Baseline Requirements — define key baseline requirements of managing hardware errors to achieve target service level
Reference & Guidance — provide reference and guidance on system hardware failure management

Resources

Welcome to the OCP Hardware Fault Management Sub-project. This is a sub-project of the OCP Hardware Management Project This Project is open to the public and we welcome all those who would like to be involved. Disclaimer: Please do not submit any confidential information to the Project Community. All presentation materials, proposals, meeting minutes and/or supporting documents are published by OCP and are open to the public in accordance to OCP’s Bylaws and IP Policy. This can be found on the OCP OCP Policies page. If you have any questions please contact OCP.

Project Overview

The Hardware Fault Management subproject’s goal is to address the Large scale data center pain-points in managing hardware faults effectively.

Objective of the subproject: to define hardware fault management solution such that it:

  • Minimizes performance degradation
  • Reduces No Trouble Found (NTF) in RMA
  • Scales the solution across heterogeneous fleet

Activities of the sub-project include:

  • Develop running list of pain-points related to HW fault handling in the fleet
  • Develop hardware fault management solution best practices to address the above pain-points
  • Hardware Error reporting format Standardization
  • Define hardware error classification
  • OCP Fault Management Infrastructure Proposal
  • Standardizing system behavior under hardware failures (future topic)
  • Provide reference and guidance on system hardware failure management (future topic)

Subproject Meets every Friday from 2-3pm PT

Please join HWFM meeting from your computer, tablet or smartphone. https://opencompute-org.zoom.us/j/88981755966?pwd=UlN1ZzU3NzV5MU00UjE5Vi8xZUF6Zz09

Review and provide Feedback

Provide feedback and comments to working documents – Link to Work-in-progress Documents Folder

Links to OCP HWFM Shared Drive

WIP Documents at HWFM Shared Drive

Presentations & Other Documents

OCP Presentation Template – please contact Michael Schill for a copy

  1. OCP2023 Global Summit: HWFM Infrastructure Framework Requirements Presentation
  2. OCP2023 Global Summit: OCP HW Fault Management Sub-project Update
  3. OCP2022 Global Summit: OCP HW Fault Management Sub-project Talk
  4. OCP2021 Global Summit: OCP HW Fault Management Sub-project Status Update
  5. OCP2020 Tech Week Lighting Talk: (FF 2 Hr) OCP HW Fault Management Sub-project Update – HWFM, FMFM, RAS API
  6. OCP2020 Global Virtual Summit presentation: Overview of HW Fault Management Sub-project
  7. OCP2019 Regional Summit: Platform Hardware Error Handling Requirements for Large Scale Data Center
  8. OCP2019 Global Summit: Minimizing the performance penalty associated with SMM based hardware error handling solution
  9. DMTF/Redfish Hardware Error Reporting Standardization Proposal : Hardware Error Reporting Standardization for cloud-scale and Edge Infrastructure presented at OCP2021

Past Meeting Recordings

Due to switch to Zoom and a glitch in automation for posting recordings to YouTube – recent recordings are stored in HWFM OCP Google Drive at –

Regular Project Calls

This project meets every other Friday from 2-3pm PT.

Call Calendar

These meeting are recorded via audio and video. By participating you consent that these recordings may be made publicly available. Any presentation materials, proposals and meeting minutes are published on the respective project’s wiki page and are open to the public in accordance to OCP’s Bylaws and IP Policy. This can be found at http://www.opencompute.org/about/ocp-policies/. If you have any questions please contact OCP.

Calendar

Participate in HW Fault Management sub-project meetings – OCP Hardware Management Calendar

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