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Preflight Requirements

Servers

Deployment has been validated on two types of servers, Dell and HP.

The exact server specifications used during validation activities are defined in links in the table above. Whilst the blueprint allows for variation in the servers, since the installation includes provisioning of BIOS and HW specific components such as NICs, SSDs, HDDs, CPUs etc only these exact server types are supported and validated in the R1 release.

A unicycle pod deployment consists of at least 3 servers for the master nodes (that can also run tenant VM workloads and 0 to 4 dedicated worker nodes.

Networking

The automated deployment process configures all aspects of the servers including BIOS, linux operating system and Network Cloud specific software. The deployment and configuration of all external switching components is outside the scope of the R1 release and must be completed as a pre-requisite before attempting a unicycle pods deployment.

Software

Preflight Checks

Preflight Unicycle Pod Specific Input Data

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