Network and physical infrastructure

Scope of work

• Design of datacentre and campus network architectures.
• Cabling, patching, rack organisation and physical documentation.
• VLAN segmentation, routing, link aggregation and redundancy.
• Dedicated networks for storage, migration and management traffic.
• Filtering, flow monitoring and performance tuning.

Deliverables

• A network architecture file and up-to-date cabling plans.
• Device configurations, backed up and version controlled.
• An addressing plan and segmentation documentation.
• Monitoring of critical links and flows.

Technologies

• Redundant architectures, link aggregation, VLAN and VXLAN.
• Dedicated high-performance networks for Ceph and live migration.
• nftables filtering, SNMP monitoring and flow analysis.

Engagement terms

Sized to the number of racks and devices, fixed price.

How the engagement runs

Phase 1 — Design

• Survey of the existing estate and definition of the target architecture.
• Addressing, segmentation and redundancy plan.

Phase 2 — Physical implementation

• Cabling, patching and rack organisation.
• Identification, labelling and photographic documentation.

Phase 3 — Configuration

• Configuration of devices and of redundant links.
• Failover testing and performance validation.

Phase 4 — Operations

• Connection to monitoring and alerting on critical links.
• Handover of configurations and documentation.