1. The Instageni Initiative
Nick Bastin, Andy Bavier, Jessica Blaine, Joe Mambretti, Rick McGeer, Rob Ricci, Nicki Watts
PlanetWorks, HP, University of Utah, Northwestern
March 13, 2012
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10 April 2017

2. The instageni rack Designed for GENI Meso-scale deployment
Eight 2012 deployments, deployments
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

3. The instageni rack Designed for easy deployability
Power: 220V L6-20 receptacle
Network: 10/100/1000 Base-T
Designed for Remote Management
HP iLO on each node
Designed for flexible networking
4 1G NICs/node, 48 1G NICs, 4 10G NICs on the OpenFlow switch
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4. Instageni rack hardware
Control Node for ProtoGENI Boss, ProtoGENI users, FOAM Controller, Image storage…
HP ProLiant DL 360G7, quad-core, single-socket, dual NIC (1 Gb/sec), 12GB RAM, 4TB Disk (RAID), iLO
Five Experiment Nodes
HP ProLiant DL 360G7, six-core, dual-socket, quad NIC (1 Gb/sec), 48GB RAM, 1TB Disk, iLO
OpenFlow Switch
HP E 6600, 48 1 Gb/s, 4 10 Gb/s
Hybrid mode
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10 April 2017

5. Instageni planned deployment
GENI funding
8 sites in Year 1
24 sites in Year 2
All in USA
Other Racks
US: Attempting program with relevant HP units
Abroad: see me.

6. Instageni year 1 sites

7. Instageni rack diagram

8. Instageni rack topology

9. Instageni software architecture
InstaGENI PLC
GENI L2/L3 Slice
Layer 2 and 3 connectivity
PlanetLab
Image
ProtoGENI Image
ProtoGENI Image
ProtoGENI (Hardware as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service)
FOAM (Networks as a Service)

10. Control Infrastructure
Control / External switch
Control Node: Xen Hypervisor
ProtoGENI “boss”
ProtoGENI “ops”
FOAM
FlowVisor
Data Plane Switch

11. (rE)Provisioning Nodes
ProtoGENI
Shared
PlanetLab
Shared
ProtoGENI
Exclusive
ProtoGENI
Exclusive
ProtoGENI
Exclusive

12. GENI Integration Will ship with full support for GENI AM (likely v3)
Updates as GENI APIs evolve
Support for Tom Lehman’s RSpec stitching extension
Will have local FOAM and FlowVisor instances for OpenFlow integration
Will start by affiliating with the ProtoGENI clearinghouse
Switch affiliation to the GENI Clearinghouse once up

13. Software Management Frequent control software updates
Rarely affects running slivers
VM snapshots to roll back failed updates
Major software changes, rather than on a set schedule
All updates done by InstaGENI personnel
(Sites can make local modifications, but this “voids the warranty”)
Testing period on Utah rack first
Updating disk images
New version of standard images distributed nightly
Voluntary updates for exclusive-use nodes and VM images
Scheduled updates for VM host images
Security updates will be handled differently on case-by-case basis

14. Operations and Management
Providing GMOC with:
Visibility into current users and slices
Health and historical data
“Kill switch” credentials for emergency shutdown
Local administrators get the same access
Automatic verification of slices upon setup
Local admins get mail about hardware failures
PlanetFlow-based mapping of address/packets to slices

15. InstaGENI Sites and Network: Y1 University of Victoria
University of Utah, Princeton University, GPO, Northwestern University,
Clemson University, Georgia Tech , University of Kansas , New York University
University of Victoria
BCNET
CANARIE
GENInet
(GENI Backbone)
NOX
SL/MREN
NYSERNET
GPN
UEN
MAGPI
MAX
SOX

16. InstaGENI Sites and Network: Y1
University of Utah
GENInet
(GENI Backbone)
SL/MREN
MAX
UEN

17. University of Utah

18. InstaGENI Sites and Network: Y1
Princeton University
GENInet
SL/MREN
MAGPI

19. InstaGENI Sites and Network: Y1 Princeton University Campus Network
Internet2 ION
VLAN 1750
MAGPI
L2 Path or L3 Tunnel
Princeton University Campus Network
InstaGENI Rack
With OF SW

20. InstaGENI Sites and Network: Y1
GPO
GENInet
(GENI Backbone)
VLAN 1750
NOX
SL/MREN
InstaGENI Rack
OF SW

21. InstaGENI Sites and Network: Y1 Northwestern University
GENInet
(GENI Backbone)
InstaGENI Rack
OF SW
SL/MREN

22. GENI OF SW InstaGENI Rack With OF SW iCAIR GENInet at StarLight/MREN
Facility
NLR At
StarLight
Multiple National Regional,
State Net Connections
Optical
Switch
StarLight/MREN
StarLight
E1200
Switch
ESnet at StarLight
MREN
E1200l
Switch
DYNES
Optical
Switch
GENI OF SW
ESnet
iCAIR
I2 at StarLight
ICCN/I-WIRE
Optical
Switch
NDDI
University of Illinois
Urbana Champaign
InstaGENI Rack
With OF SW
iCAIR
Multiple EU, Asian, South
American
Sites
ION I2

23. InstaGENI Sites and Network: Y1 Clemson University, Georgia Tech
GENInet
(GENI Backbone)
SL/MREN
2*10 G
SOX
InstaGENI Rack
With OF SW
Clemson
InstaGENI Rack
With OF SW Georgia Tech

25. InstaGENI Sites and Network: Y1
New York University
GENInet
(GENI Backbone)
SL/MREN
NYSERNET

26. InstaGENI Sites and Network: Y1 New York University Campus Network
NLR
Internet2 ION
VLAN 1750
NYSERNET
L2 Paths
New York University Campus Network
InstaGENI Rack
With OF SW

27. InstaGENI Sites and Network: Y1 University of Victoria
BCNET
CANARIE
SL/MREN
GENInet
(GENI Backbone)

28. Of Victoria Campus Network
VLAN 1750
NLR At
StarLight
BCNET
CANARIE
Optical
Switch
VLAN 1750
VLAN 1750
University
Of Victoria Campus Network
StarLight/MREN
StarLight
E1200
Switch
CANARIE StarLight
GLIF GOLE
MREN
E1200l
Switch
DYNES
Optical
Switch
VLAN 1750
University of Victoria
GENI OF SW
GLIF
I2 at StarLight
Optical
Switch
VLAN 1750
NDDI
InstaGENI Rack
With OF SW
ION I2

29. Selected Other Interconnections

30. Thanks!
HP Confidential
10 April 2017