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Hosting
Intel is providing a hosted test-bed with a number of isolated bare-metal environments allocated to different OPNFV projects. There are 9 "PODs" operational with plans to add additional PODs in 2016. Current POD assignments are at Intel PODs
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Systems
The first 2 PODs are being used by BGS project (which is driving compute, network and storage requirements). Information on BGS environment details can be found at Get Started Work Environment.The basic compute setup is as follows:
- 3 x Control nodes (for HA/clustered setup of OpenStack and OpenDaylight)
- 2 x Compute node (to bring up/run VNFs)
- 1 x Jump Server in which the installer runs
Networking
All servers are PXE boot enabled and can also be accessed "out-of-band" using the lights-out network with RMM/BMC. Servers are current or recent generation Xeon-DP … specs for each POD/server to be documented here.
Each POD (environment) can support up to 5 VLANs (these subnets are pre-defined in the test-bed network). The default BGS environment is configured with 4 networks 1) Public 2) Private 3) Admin 4) Lights-out. The Admin and Lights-out network share a VLAN (hence each server only uses 3 NICs).
Collaborating
- Best practices for collaborating in the test environment are being developed and will be documented here
- The landing server is provisioned with CentOS 7 or Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. The project decides configurations for other servers and provisions accordingly
- The landing server has a VNC server for shared VNC sessions
- While VNC allows screens to be shared an audio session may be useful … setup an audio-bridge or try a collaboration tool such as Lync, WebEx, Google Hangouts, Blue Jeans, etc.
HowTo Documents
- Remote access uses OpenVPN via a 100 Mbps (symmetrical) internet link … VPN Quickstart instructions are here:opnfv_intel_hf_testbed_-_quickstart_vpn_.docx
The Typical POD
Figure 1: Typical Intel OPNFV POD Network Topology
TAGS: BGS, Bootstrap Getting Started, Intel,Test, Lab
