BOS OpenGENI Rack Installation and Configuration Details

This is an internal development rack. Not for public use.

Hardware Configuration

BOS is a rack consisting of the following hardware components:

• 5 Dell PowerEdge R510 server hosts. Of these, we have configured
  • 1 as the OpenStack control node (boscontroller.gpolab.bbn.com)
  • 3 as OpenStack compute nodes (boscompute1.gpolab.bbn.com, boscompute2.gpolab.bbn.com, boscompute4.gpolab.bbn.com).
  • 1 that is currently unused (it is not configured with enough NICs)
• 1 Cisco 2901 Integrated Services Route for access to the external internet through the GENI lab SW Config Manual​ GigEthernet Config​
• 1 HP ProCurve 6600-48G-4Xg OpenFlow switch. ​Manuals

Network Configuration

We have established the following addresses for the different servers, and connected them to the following ports on the switch and router:

Host	Control Plane Address	Router Port (Control Plane)	External Address	Router Port (External Plane)	Management Address	Router Port (Management Plane)	Data Plane Address	Switch Port (Data Plane)
boscontroller	1010.8.100	3/6	128.89.91.170	1/1	10.10.6.100	3/0	10.10.5.100	16
boscompute1	10.10.8.101	3/5	128.89.91.171	1/3	10.10.6.101	3/1	10.10.5.101	8
boscompute2	10.10.8.102	3/4	128.89.91.172	1/2	10.10.6.102	3/3	10.10.5.102	34
boscompute4	10.10.8.104	3/2	128.89.91.174	1/5	10.10.6.104	1/4	10.10.5.104	24

The external gateway from the rack is at 128.89.91.162.

The ports on the HP ProCurve switch used for transporting data plane traffic (8, 16, 24, 34) are configured as tagged VLAN's 1000-1010.

vlan 1000
   name "vlan1000"
   tagged 8,16,24,34
   no ip address
   exit
vlan 1001
   name "vlan1001"
   tagged 8,16,24,34
   no ip address
   exit
vlan 1002
   name "vlan1002"
   tagged 8,16,24,34
   no ip address
   exit
vlan 1003
   name "vlan1003"
   tagged 8,16,24,34
   no ip address
   exit
vlan 1004
   name "vlan1004"
   tagged 8,16,24,34
   no ip address
   exit
vlan 1005
   name "vlan1005"
   tagged 8,16,24,34
   no ip address
   exit
vlan 1006
   name "vlan1006"
   tagged 8,16,24,34
   no ip address
   exit
vlan 1007
   name "vlan1007"
   tagged 8,16,24,34
   no ip address
   exit
vlan 1008
   name "vlan1008"
   tagged 8,16,24,34
   no ip address
   exit
vlan 1009
   name "vlan1009"
   tagged 8,16,24,34
   no ip address
   exit
vlan 1010
   name "vlan1010"
   tagged 8,16,24,34
   no ip address
   exit

Software Configuration

BOS has a standard GRAM configuration, with one compute host (boscontroller) and three compute nodes (boscompute1, boscompute2 and boscompute3). The configuration file (/etc/gram/config.json) represent this configuration the the external and control plane addresses and VLAN ranges described above.