Overview
The ThunderX2 Pod consists of 6 Arm®v8 based Gigabyte R281-T91 servers with the following specifications per server:
- CPU:
- 2x 28 core 2.0 GHz Marvell TX2 Processors
- RAM:
- 4x 32GB RDIMM-Tx2
- Storage:
- 1x 480GB SSD
- 1x 1TB HDD
- Networking:
- 2x 10Gbe SFP+ (not connected)
- 2x 1/10Gbe BASE-T (1 connected)
- 2x 40Gbe QSFP (coming soon)
- 1x IPMI / Lights-out Management
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Networking
The networking within the pod is currently provided by a 10Gbe BASE-T switch, which only supports static configurations (i.e. no SDN control). This switch will be replaced with an Edgecore 7816-64X that is currently on order, along with 40Gbe NICs to be installed on each server.
Servers
| Server Name | IPMI Address | IPMI VLAN ID | Public Network Address | Public Network VLAN ID | Switch Port(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gigabyte1 | 10.11.3.11 | 3003 | 10.11.4.11 | 3004 | TBD | |
| gigabyte2 | 10.11.3.12 | 3003 | 10.11.4.12 | 3004 | TBD | |
| gigabyte3 | 10.11.3.13 | 3003 | 10.11.4.13 | 3004 | TBD | |
| gigabyte4 | 10.11.3.14 | 3003 | 10.11.4.14 | 3004 | TBD | |
| gigabyte5 | 10.11.3.15 | 3003 | 10.11.4.15 | 3004 | TBD | |
| gigabyte6 | 10.11.3.16 | 3003 | 10.11.4.16 | 3004 | TBD |
Notes:
- Public Network is un-tagged on switch ports facing the servers.
- Switch port numbers will be assigned when the Edgecore switch is installed with 40Gbe connections to each server.