The equipment is available from various vendors, but the biggest hurdle is finding a datacenter facility that can handle OCP gear. Retail colocation is pretty m

The equipment is available from various vendors, but the biggest hurdle is finding a datacenter facility that can handle OCP gear. Retail colocation is pretty much 19" racks only and 120V/208V power only. Even small scale wholesale datacenter deployments are tough to do if you want to go whole hog on OCP specs. You can still get OCP hardware in standard 19" form factors for these environments, but I don't personally see much point in it. You're seriously limiting your vendor and hardware selections, and if you aren't seeing the purported power efficiency gains then it's not worthwhile. The allure of eliminating the pain of classic vendors is still there, but there are paths through the Dell / HP / Supermicro maze that are tolerable without burning it down and going to OCP. There are other challenges with OCP's overall design in standard facilities beyond the server cabinet level too. Their (optional) battery cabinet design -- where you save on the facility cost by omitting the UPS bank in favor of battery cabinets for every triplet rack -- is explicitly forbidden at basically every top tier datacenter provider that I'm aware of. No batteries allowed on the floor because of the fire suppression system. You can definitely get a provider to build you a room where they'll let you have batteries on the floor, but that is a multi-megawatt sort of problem, not a 50kw sort of problem.