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Bow Pod Direct Attach Build and Test Guide
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  • 1. Overview
    • 1.1. Acronyms and abbreviations
    • 1.2. System summary
  • 2. Bow Pod DA systems
    • 2.1. Bow-2000 overview
    • 2.2. Host server
    • 2.3. Mounting rack
    • 2.4. PDUs
    • 2.5. Cables
    • 2.6. Other system pre-requisites
      • 2.6.1. Power delivery
      • 2.6.2. Cooling delivery
      • 2.6.3. Management and data connectivity
  • 3. Bow Pod DA configurations
  • 4. Physical mounting
    • 4.1. Preparing the rack
      • 4.1.1. Rail distance
      • 4.1.2. Unpacking the rack
      • 4.1.3. Removing the side panels and doors
      • 4.1.4. Removing the vertical accessory channels
      • 4.1.5. Adjusting the rear accessory channels
      • 4.1.6. Adjusting the rear vertical rails
      • 4.1.7. Adjusting the front vertical rails
      • 4.1.8. Installing the rack rails
      • 4.1.9. Installing PDU brackets
    • 4.2. Installing the equipment
      • 4.2.1. Installing the Bow-2000 IPU-Machines
      • 4.2.2. Installing the host server
      • 4.2.3. Installing the PDUs
    • 4.3. Cabling the system
      • 4.3.1. Bow-2000 to Bow-2000 IPU-Link connectivity (OSFP)
      • 4.3.2. Bow-2000 to Bow-2000 Sync-Link cabling (Cat5e)
      • 4.3.3. Bow-2000 to Bow-2000 management cabling (Cat5e)
      • 4.3.4. Bow-2000 to server management cabling (Cat5e)
      • 4.3.5. Bow-2000 to server data cabling (QSFP)
    • 4.4. Power cabling
    • 4.5. Completing the rack
      • 4.5.1. Blanking panels
      • 4.5.2. Rack completion
  • 5. Server requirements
    • 5.1. Server hardware and storage
      • 5.1.1. Hardware requirements
      • 5.1.2. Storage configuration
      • 5.1.3. Memory configuration
      • 5.1.4. BIOS configuration
      • 5.1.5. User application memory usage
    • 5.2. Operating system and packages
      • 5.2.1. Ubuntu 18.04 installation and packages
      • 5.2.2. Ubuntu 20.04 installation and packages
      • 5.2.3. CentOS 7 and CentOS 8 installation and packages
      • 5.2.4. Python packages
  • 6. System platform software configuration
    • 6.1. Create an account for Bow-2000 administration
    • 6.2. Download the Bow-2000 system software release
    • 6.3. System platform installation and configuration
      • 6.3.1. Installing the Bow-2000 software release
      • 6.3.2. Checklist before running the Bow Pod DA install script
      • 6.3.3. System configuration including network setup
      • 6.3.4. Output from bundle install script
      • 6.3.5. Example output from Bow Pod DA install script
      • 6.3.6. Running Bow Pod DA install in non-interactive mode
      • 6.3.7. Discovering network interfaces for non-interactive mode
        • Finding the network management service in use
        • Finding available network interfaces with NetworkManager
        • Finding network interfaces with networkd
        • Finding network interfaces with another network manager
        • Finding RNIC devices
    • 6.4. Bow-2000 maintenance, management and control
      • 6.4.1. Bow Pod DA system software upgrades
      • 6.4.2. Hardware management of Bow-2000 via BMC management interface
      • 6.4.3. V-IPU management via IPU-Gateway command line
  • 7. System hardware testing
    • 7.1. rack_tool
    • 7.2. Running system self-tests
    • 7.3. Troubleshooting
      • 7.3.1. BMC built in hardware test
      • 7.3.2. V-IPU cluster tests
  • 8. Platform system OS configuration (reference only)
    • 8.1. User accounts and groups
    • 8.2. Bow Pod default usernames
    • 8.3. Network interfaces
      • 8.3.1. Bow Pod DA network interfaces
    • 8.4. Services
      • 8.4.1. gc-ipu-network service
  • 9. Revision history
  • 10. Safety and compliance
  • 11. Trademarks & copyright
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