=== 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:[[BR]]

* What is a unique name for your location? (Example: USC-Spartburg; USC-Columbia)
* How do we check conflicts?
* Use this information to generate a unique identifier for GENI.
     *	Ie: <company>-<location>-<function>-<number>
     *	Clemson-main-ctrl-1, Clemson-main-comp-1,etc
* Generated by us based on customer. Information given to customer after they purchase the unit.
* Tracked by integrator so if 2nd order is placed we know which number to start off on.

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.
o	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.
o	xxx.xxx.xx.xx1-xxx.xxx.xx.xx2

VLAN information for external plane:
•	Provide the external plane VLAN number for your site.
o	Needed for switch configuration 


External network configuration on control nodes and compute nodes

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)
•	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
DNS server
•	If we use control plane, IP address is assigned internally within the rack. (After talking with Dell I don’t think this is an option. iDRAC needs its own interface)

Force10 switch network configuration

Assign the following:
•	Static IP address
•	Subnet
•	Gateway

PT7048 switch network configuration

Assign the following:
•	Static IP address
•	Subnet
•	Gateway