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* The ARM lab is starting out with with 3 servers of model Cavium ThunderX. * We have a limited number of physical interfaces on each (2 x 10G and one 1 x 1G for “admin”) * a Fuel approach, which supports VLANS, rather than an Apex (foreman/quickstack) approach which require individual NICs for each network is the way to go. * Ubuntu as the target OS to be installed on top of bare metal cavium servers mainly based on Cavium’s recommendation/preference. * An x86 jump server is being used to run the installer.
Here is a low-cost ARMv8 platform described at 96boards.com at this link: https://www.96boards.org/products/ce/dragonboard410c/
We don't yet have it running yet as it needs a 12V power supply which is in the mail from Arrow Electronics (should be a link on the page above). It's certainly a challenging form-factor, as there's no built-in Ethernet, but it has wifi and one can add some 100mb USB enet dongles. This isn't awesome, but it's much closer to an OPNFV-capable ARMv8 SoC than BBBrC or rPi. We will post more when it is powered up. Anyone with interest or experience, please comment as well!
