== Pre-Purchase == Connection between OpenFlow switches should ideally appear like layer 1 connections to the experimenters. This can be accomplished in various ways including using dedicated fiber, existing pseudo-wire technologies, OF switches to pass traffic, or applying special configurations to traditional layer 2 VLANs such as disabling mac learning and STP. * Does your site require any additional hardware or support in preparing your network environment for hosting a GENI rack? * Do you need an additional transceiver to connect the 10Gb uplink connection from the rack to your network? == Post-Purchase == **Important: If the following information is not or cannot be provided prior to the rack being sent to your site, you will receive the hardware with only a bare OS installed on all servers and the switch un-configured. In order to have your rack delivered as a ready to be deployed product, you MUST provide the following: === OS Installation === ==== Hostname ==== * What is a unique name for your location? (Example: USC-Spartburg; USC-Columbia)[[BR]] * How do we check conflicts?[[BR]] * Use this information to generate a unique identifier for GENI.[[BR]] * Ie: --- * Clemson-main-ctrl-1, Clemson-main-comp-1,etc * Generated by integrator based on customer. Information given to customer after they purchase the unit.[[BR]] * Tracked by integrator so if 2nd order is placed we know which number to start off on.[[BR]] DNS server === GRAM software === Range and subnet of public IP addresses for virtual machines: * Define a range of contiguous IP addresses to be assigned to the Virtual Machines. * Start_ip to end_ip must be a contiguous block of ip addresses not in use. There must be at least one, e.g.. 130.127.39.130 - 130.127.39.131. VLAN information for external plane: * Provide the external plane VLAN number for your site. * Needed for switch configuration External network configuration on control nodes and compute nodes[[BR]] Assign the following for the control node attached to the system. (DHCP is not recommended as a change in IP address can disrupt the software utilized by GENI)[[BR]] * Static IP address: * Subnet: * Gateway: * DNS Server: Will the following ports be allowed through your campus/network firewall, to the entire rack subnet: * 22 - ssh * 25 - smtp (outbound connections only, from control node) * 80 - http (must also allow outbound connections from control node) * 443 - https (must also allow outbound connections from control node) * 843 - Flash Policy Server * 5001 - GRAM * 5002 - GRAM * 30000-65535 - Ports used by software. * GRE - Not a port, but an IP protocol, required for constructing tunnels between racks. * ICMP - ping === iDRAC network configuration Static IP address === * Subnet * Gateway === Force10 switch network configuration === Assign the following: * Static IP address * Subnet * Gateway === PT7048 switch network configuration === Assign the following: * Static IP address * Subnet * Gateway