A Rack for GENI Out-of-the-box Designed for GENI Meso -scale deployment

1. InstaGENI: An Instant GENI Node Nick Bastin, Andy Bavier, Jessica Blaine, Bill Burns, Jim Chen, Narayan Krishnan, Joe Mambretti, Rick McGeer, Michaela Mezo, Rob Ricci, Leigh Stoller, Nicki Watts • A Rack for GENI Out-of-the-box • Designed for GENI Meso-scale deployment • 35 racks deployed by the end of 2013 (32 GPO, 3 other) • ProtoGENI and FOAM as native Aggregate Managers and Control Frameworks • Boots to ProtoGENI instance with OpenFlow switch • Designed for wide-area PlanetLab federation • PlanetLab image provided with boot • InstaGENI PlanetLab Central stood up • Designed for expandability • Approx 30U free in rack • Designed for easy deployability • Power: 220V L6-20 receptacle (110V option) • Network: 10/100/1000 Base-T • Designed for Remote Management • HP iLO on each node • Designed for flexible networking • 4 1G NICs/node, 20 1G NICs, 4 10G NICs on the OpenFlow switch • InstaGENI Software • ProtoGENI Control Framework and AM Native • FOAM Aggregate Manager Native • PlanetLab VMs instantiated by ProtoGENI • When loaded, federate with InstaGENI-PlanetLab central • First delivered racks in May 2012 InstaGENI Sites • InstaGENI Hardware • Control Node for ProtoGENI Boss, ProtoGENI users, FOAM Controller, Image storage • HP ProLiant DL 360G8, eight-core, single-socket, dual NIC (1 Gb/sec), 12GB RAM, 4TB Disk (RAID), iLO • Five Experiment Nodes • HP ProLiant DL 360G8, eight-core, dual-socket, quad NIC (1 Gb/sec), 48GB RAM, 1TB Disk, iLO • OpenFlow Switch • HP E 5406, 20 1 Gb/s, 4 10 Gb/s • Hybrid mode • InstaGENI Networking • Interconnected on GENInet • Connection services supported by Internet2, NLR, Canarie • Regional Networks: NOX, MREN, UEN, SOX, GPN, NYSERNET, MAGPI, KyRON, KaREN, BCNet • Connection services through StarLight