C&I Meeting Notes

Meeting Notes

1/27/14-1/28/14 OCP Summit V @ San Jose Convention Center

Day 1 -- "Ready" vs. "Certified"

OCP Ready

• Ready is executed via self tes*ting from respective hardware vendors
• Should be considered a software only toolkit
• Not a comprehensive certification
• Should be included as a subset of OCP Certified
• Purpose is to lower the barrier of entry of OCP Hardware
• Goal is conform to OCP Hardware Management Spec (Insert link)
• [Question] - Should recertification take place as OCP Ready iterates? (example: 1.0->1.1)

OCP Certified

• Certification is executed by certification Labs (ITRI/UTSA)

What is the scope of the certification?

• [Question] - Are we certifying a motherboard/Model/Sku/Bios Rev/Firmware Rev?
• Configuration should be "Max configuration"
• [Question] - How do we handle different components?
  • HDD Amount vs. HDD Configuration vs. Memory Population vs. Memory Amount
  • We should look to put ownership on vendor to create respective Hardware Compatibility Lists (HCL) or Approved Vendor Lists (AVL) for sub components
• [Question] - How do we handle configuration proliferation?

What are we trying to solve?

• Needs to be clearly defined

OCP Labs

• Cost of certifying (yet to be determined by OCP Foundation) is a revenue source for OCP
• Official determination of certified is done by OCP, not respective Labs
• [Question] - During certification, if a test fails, how do we notify vendor?
• [Question] - How do we handle bios/firmware upgrades with respect to previously certified systems?
  • Possibly not charge for recertification?

Action Items:

• Work out structure for maintaining and publishing for both Ready and Certified Packages
• Provide documentation for Disposable OS (DOS) for USB Deployment
  • Joel Wineland
• Identify what "Max Configuration" means, in terms of hardware to test?
  • Example: Populate all HDD bays, Memory slots, Mezz slots

Day 2 -- "Use the email list more!!!"

Wiki

• Pull Ready/Certified to top of the page (Main Page)
• Move minimum documentation and need that within certified

FAQ

• [Question] - What does the customer need to know?
• [Question] - What is minimum criteria?
• Should look to focus more so on community driven support
  • Possibly look to establish a community based forum for OCP users to collbaorate/discuss deployments and reference diagrams.

Software Framework and Tools

• We should look to move these into Ready/Certified respectively and maintain as apart of the respective release cycles

C&I Branding and Marketing

• Hugh is now in charge
• Needs to be defined
• Internally we should look to evangelize/market C&I within the OCP Foundation in order to gain recognition and support

Training

• Remove

Project communications

• Remove, responsibility is taken on by OCP Foundation

Pre-certification "Tested Configuration" repository

• "Doesn't belong but don't forget"

Ecosystem Optimization

• [Question] - Thao, is this ok?