.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. .. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 .. (c) 2016 OPNFV. Networking ---------- **Network Hardware** * 24 or 48 Port TOR Switch * NICs - Combination of 1GE and 10GE based on network topology options (per server can be on-board or use PCI-e) * Connectivity for each data/control network is through a separate NIC. This simplifies Switch Management however requires more NICs on the server and also more switch ports * BMC (Baseboard Management Controller) for lights-out mangement network using IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) **Network Options** * Option I: 4x1G Control, 2x10G Data, 48 Port Switch * 1 x 1G for lights-out Management * 1 x 1G for Admin/PXE boot * 1 x 1G for control-plane connectivity * 1 x 1G for storage * 2 x 10G for data network (redundancy, NIC bonding, High bandwidth testing) * Option II: 1x1G Control, 2x 10G Data, 24 Port Switch * Connectivity to networks is through VLANs on the Control NIC * Data NIC used for VNF traffic and storage traffic segmented through VLANs * Option III: 2x1G Control, 2x10G Data, 2x10G Storage, 24 Port Switch * Data NIC used for VNF traffic * Storage NIC used for control plane and Storage segmented through VLANs (separate host traffic from VNF) * 1 x 1G for lights-out mangement * 1 x 1G for Admin/PXE boot * 2 x 10G for control-plane connectivity/storage * 2 x 10G for data network Documented configuration to include: - Subnet, VLANs (may be constrained by existing lab setups or rules) - IPs - Types of NW - lights-out, public, private, admin, storage - May be special NW requirements for performance related projects - Default gateways **Sample Network Drawings** .. image:: ../images/bridge2.png .. image:: ../images/opnfv-pharos-diagram-v01.jpg .. image:: ../images/opnfv-example-lab-diagram.png Download the visio zip file here: `opnfv-example-lab-diagram.vsdx.zip `_