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Simple Layer 2 Experiment Using the GENI Portal
Part I/Step 2: Obtain Resources: create a slice and reserve resources
Instructions
Now that you are a member of a project, you can create a slice and reserve resources.
4. Create a slice
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Figure 4-1 Create a new slice. |
5. Renew your slice
Slices and the resources within them are reserved until their individual <i>expiration times<i>. Renewing allows you to extend the expiration time of your slice and the resources in them.
Slices and the resources within them have distinct expiration times. You must renew both the slice and the resources separately. |
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Figure 5-1 Renew the slice. |
6. (Optional) Add other experimenters to your slice
When reserving resource via the portal, you can add other members to your slice so that other experimenters can have accounts and login into your resources.
Slice members will be able to login to resources reserved in the future if:
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Figure 6-1 Add other experimenters to your slice.
7. Reserve Virtual Machines at Two Aggregates
For this tutorial, we have manually reserved a VLAN (a layer 2 circuit) from a GENI rack in Utah (Utah InstaGENI) to a GENI rack in Massachusetts (GPO InstaGENI).
Now reserve a virtual machine (VM) connected to each end of the manually configured VLAN.
In order to pace the creation of the VMs, please only reserve your two VMs when you are given a "blinking ball" by the tutorial instructor. |
First, reserve a VM on the Utah end of the VLAN. This node will be refered to as the "client".
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Figure 7-1 Add resources at Utah InstaGENI. |
Second, reserve a virtual machine connected to the Massachusetts end of the manually configured VLAN. This node will be refered to as the "server".
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Figure 7-2 Add resources at GPO InstaGENI. |
8. Check Whether Virtual Machines are Ready to be Used
It takes some time for the VMs to boot. Check to see if they are up.
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Figure 8-1 Get the status at all aggregates. |
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Figure 8-2 Resources at Utah InstaGENI and GPO InstaGENI are green to indicate they are ready. |