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<NETWORKING ARCHITECTURE, L1, L2, L3 and BGP>



DHCP, HTTP PXE and PXE Booting

Network Cloud family blueprint deployments involves a number of different DHCP servers and http pxe  and pxe booting procedures during the automatic deployment process.

Regional Controller Deployment

When installed on a bare metal server, the RC  is configured by the Redfish API calls issued by the Build Server to make DHCP Requests and then HTTP PXE boot over its vlan tagged 'host' network interface.

The Build Server acts as the DHCP and HTTP PXE boot server for the RC via its own 'host' network interface.

The 'host' network spans between the RC and the Build Server. 

In R1 the 'host' network is verified as a single L2 broadcast domain.

Rover Deployment

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Rover servers makes DHCP Requests over the WAN spanning between the edge site and the RC's more centralized location which must be Responded to by the RC via the 'host' L2 domain. In the R1 release the 'host' network is a single L2 broadcast domain. It is possible to split the WAN host network into multiple routed L2 domains using functionality such as DHCP helper/relay but this is unverified in R1.

Rover servers are configured by the Redfish API calls issued by the RC to HTTP PXE boot from the RC over the 'host' network.

Unicycle Pod Deployment

A Unicycle pod's genesis node is configured by the Redfish API calls issued by the RC to make DHCP Requests and then HTTP PXE boot over its vlan tagged 'host' network interface.

The RC acts as the DHCP and HTTP PXE boot server for the Unicycle genesis node via its own tagged 'host' network interface.

The 'host' network spans the WAN between  the Unicycle pods's edge site and the RC in a more centralized location. 

In R1 the 'host' network is verified as a single L2 broadcast domain.

Unicycle masters and workers (all unicycle nodes other than genesis), make DHCP Requests on the edge site's local 'pxe' network's L2 broadcast domain. The genesis node's MaaS acts as the DHCP server.

Unicycle masters and workers (all unicycle nodes other than genesis) are configured by the MaaS server running on the genesis node to PXE boot over the remote site's 'pxe' network.









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