System Management Network Functions

The following is a description of the system management network functions:

  • Edge - Any interactions with the Customer network or Internet

    • Customer Jobs - Customer Access Network (CAN)
    • User-facing cloud APIs
      • User Access Instances (UAIs)
    • Customer Administration - Customer Management Network (CMN)
      • Administrative Access to the system by Customer Admins
      • Access from the system to external services:
        • Customer/Internet DNS
        • LDAP authentication
        • System installation and upgrade media (e.g. Nexus)
    • System - Access by the machine to external (Customer and/or Internet) resources. E.g. Internal DNS lookups may resolve to an external DNS

  • Internal - Node-to-node communication inside the system

    • Administrative
      • Hardware - Hardware Management Network (HMN)
        • Direct BMC/iLOM access
        • Hardware Discovery
        • Firmware Updates
    • Cloud Control Plane - Node Management Network (NMN)
      • Job Control Plane - Node Management Network (NMN)

  • Services

    • Traditional network services (e.g. TFTP, DHCP, DNS)
    • Cloud API and control
    • Cloud-based System Services
    • Jobs
    • Traditional UAN
    • New UAI

  • Storage

    • Ceph (IP-based storage)

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