InstaGENI: An Instant GENI Node Nick Bastin, Andy Bavier, Jessica Blaine, Bill Burns, Jim Chen, Narayan Krishnan, Joe Mambretti, Rick McGeer, Michaela Mezo, Rob Ricci, Leigh Stoller, Nicki Watts

A Rack for GENI Out-of-the-box• Designed for GENI Meso-scale deployment

• 35 racks deployed by the end of 2013 (32 GPO, 3 other)• ProtoGENI and FOAM as native Aggregate

Managers and Control Frameworks• Boots to ProtoGENI instance with OpenFlow switch

• Designed for wide-area PlanetLab federation• PlanetLab image provided with boot• InstaGENI PlanetLab Central stood up

• Designed for expandability• Approx 30U free in rack

• Designed for easy deployability• Power: 220V L6-20 receptacle (110V option)• Network: 10/100/1000 Base-T

• Designed for Remote Management• HP iLO on each node

• Designed for flexible networking• 4 1G NICs/node, 20 1G NICs, 4 10G NICs on the OpenFlow

switch

InstaGENI Hardware• Control Node for ProtoGENI Boss, ProtoGENI

users, FOAM Controller, Image storage• HP ProLiant DL 360G8, eight-core, single-socket, dual NIC

(1 Gb/sec), 12GB RAM, 4TB Disk (RAID), iLO• Five Experiment Nodes • HP ProLiant DL 360G8, eight-core, dual-socket, quad NIC

(1 Gb/sec), 48GB RAM, 1TB Disk, iLO• OpenFlow Switch• HP E 5406, 20 1 Gb/s, 4 10 Gb/s• Hybrid mode

InstaGENI Software• ProtoGENI Control Framework and AM

Native• FOAM Aggregate Manager Native• PlanetLab VMs instantiated by

ProtoGENI• When loaded, federate with

InstaGENI-PlanetLab central• First delivered racks in May 2012

InstaGENI Networking• Interconnected on GENInet• Connection services supported by

Internet2, NLR, Canarie• Regional Networks: NOX, MREN, UEN,

SOX, GPN, NYSERNET, MAGPI, KyRON, KaREN, BCNet

• Connection services through StarLight

InstaGENI Sites