Management network functions in detail

  • Edge: Any interactions with the customer network or Internet
    • Customer jobs (Customer Access Network (CAN))
    • User-facing cloud APIs
    • Customer administration (Customer Management Network (CMN))
      • Administrative access to the system by customer administrators
      • 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
  • Services
    • Traditional network services (e.g. TFTP, DHCP, DNS)
    • Cloud API and control
    • Cloud-based system services
    • Jobs
    • Traditional User Access Node (UAN)
    • New UAI
  • Storage
    • Ceph (IP-based storage)