Hyperscalers RackN Appliance

HYPERSCALERS FEATURED HARDWARE

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.

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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