Hyperscalers RackN Appliance
* Hyperscalers RackN Appliance solves the following problems within data centers:
- Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration (IAO)
- Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP)
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
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Hyperscalers RackN Appliance
Hyperscalers RackN Appliance solves the problem of Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration (IAO)/ Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)/ Infrastructure as Code (IaC) within data centers. Hyperscalers in partnership with RackN offers a Digital Rebar Platform (DRP) to solve this problem and ease the management of physical hardware of Enterprises, Cloud providers and Co-location operators.
The purpose of Digital Rebar is removing the common, repetitive, non-value-added toil that most IT operations teams struggle with every day. It does not require complex components, infrastructure, and knowledge because we think that’s the way it should be.
We help operations teams in two ways:
1. by providing an automation catalog that covers the most common hard IT challenges like installing operating systems, updating firmware and building inventories.
2. by including a strong Infrastructure as Code process that encourages teams to reuse and standardize processes beyond our catalog.
We know that a strong infrastructure foundation leaves companies to focus on the value-added work.
Streamlined Multi-O/S Provisioning
• Network Boot via PXE, IPXE
• Multi-Operating System – Linux, Windows, VMware
• Multi-Architecture – Intel, AMD, ARM64
• Image Based Deployment – Linux, Windows, VMware
• Immutable Operating Systems
• Boot via Media Attach
• Secure Boot Enabled
Full Bare Metal Lifecycle with or without Out-of-Band Management
• BMC protocols including IPMI, Redfish, Vendor API, and none
• RAID configuration
• BIOS & Firmware configuration
• Automatic Discovery, Inventory and Classification
• VMware ESXi and VCF installation
RackN Digital Rebar Platform tries to fill in the following three unique gaps left by other automation tools.
HYPERSCALERS FEATURED HARDWARE
S5X -1U
S5K – 1U
The S5K – 1U (D53K-1U) native design for AMD EPYC™ 7003 Processors, ready for PCIe 4.0 eco-system deployment. It offers up to 128 cores within 1U form factor, optimized for HPC workloads. With 4 AMD xGMI-2 between dual EPYC™ processors up to 16GT/sec of CPU interconnect speed.
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FEATURES OF HYPERSCALERS RACKN APPLIANCE
Hyperscalers RackN Appliance provides best in class Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration (IAO)/ Bare Metal Provisioning (BMP) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)/ Infrastructure as Code (IaC) supporting a wide range of processes and systems. RackN is also able to integrate with existing MaaS by having them hand off to the RackN agent to complete installation of operating system.
For Metal as a Service Providers
RackN Features:
• BMP is only a small stage as part of system commissioning, so integration and handoffs are critical.
• BMP should not be treated as a onetime activity. Best practice data centres assume a constant refresh cycle for operating systems.
RackN Differentiators:
• RackN offers highly available and high scale configurations for IAO. Unlike vendor server management wrappers, our designs assume customers are driving IAO from other automated processes that rely on consistent results with accurate feedback.
• RackN small footprint can be run and managed from a top of rack switch to minimize data center overhead.
• RackN provides many performance enhancements for BMP that improve provisioning speed 10x or better.
• RackN offers image-based deployments for a wide range of O/S.
• RackN has advanced integrations for VMware ESXi that provides unmatched control of the process.
• RackN discovery and templating process simplifies BMP processes by allowing configurations to be automatically customized for each system
• RackN DHCP integrations enable improved performance and control compared to other BMP systems that rely on an external DHCP system.
• RackN supports advanced security configuration that reduce or eliminate insecure protocols during IAO.
• RackN workflows and classifiers allow systems to be provisioned without any human input when needed.
RackN Differentiators:
• Since RackN API keeps running service, it is able to maintain the state of the system in addition to providing declarative configuration.
• RackN events and plugins allow operators to integrate IaaS actions into other workflows and notifications.
• RackN content management system is both versioned and code controlled to be an ideal IaaS format.
• The unique RackN composable architecture allows teams to collaborate on IaaS components with clear separation of duties.
AUDIENCE AND PURPOSE
Engineers, Enthusiasts, Executives and IT professionals with background in Computer Science/Electronics/ Information Technology with an understanding in Linux commands, Python, JSON language and basic electronics who intend to study, explore, deploy Hyperscalers – RackN Appliance in Ubuntu 20.04.
The purpose of this document is to create a RackN DRP appliance with various O/S images in S5X | D53X-1U servers using Ubuntu 20.04 operating system.
Important Considerations
1. We recommend contacting Hyperscalers at info@hyperscalers.com to lay out a plan on Hardware, Network and Software Infrastructure with stability, robustness, and scalability in mind.
2. It is recommended to have a dedicated boot network for the production environment.
3. In case of hardware lifecycle management, thorough testing on your use cases (Stable BIOS/ Firmware catering to your Operating system and applications) is necessary before the production deployment.
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Contents Page - Download the Reference Guide in the Downloads Tab
2 Introduction 3
3 Hyperscalers Featured Hardware 6
4 Features of Hyperscalers RackN Appliance 7
For Metal as a Service Providers 7
For Infrastructure as a Service Providers 8
5 Who we are? 10
6 Audience and Purpose 11
Important Considerations 11
7 Digital IP Appliance Design Process 12
Appliance Optimizer Utility AOU 12
8 Features of our hardware 13
9 Infrastructure Setup 14
Terminologies 15
10 Base Product Deployment 16
11 Configure the Appliance 20
12 Testing the Appliance 26
13 Updating the Appliance 38
14 Additional Setup and Deployment 38
Troubleshooting Appliance 38
15 Addendum 39
16 References 57
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RackN DRP Introduction Document |
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