I chatted with Mark who suggested I chat with Alex about this. I'm assigning this to Alex so he can update the task if he likes (otherwise I'll chat with him my AM his PM tomorrow.)

Hello,

We got unfortunately a row restriction at this point as with the current networking setup we can not have VMs span rows. That might not be the case in the future either because we end up changing parts of our networking setup or cause we end up doing switching in the HP hardware nodes themselves or tunneling or some other clever idea. The hardware boxes themselves will have private IPs, but we will be able to provide VMs with either private IPs or public ones from that row with no problem.

Seems like all rows have adequate space both IP wise as well as Unit wise. Splitting up the boxes in 3 Racks seems like a good compromise at this point. So 2 boxes per Rack. Walking through our racks I think promising combinations are:

CODFW Row A: A1U35-A1U36, A5U35-A5U36 and A8U35-A5U36
If we don't care to have the boxes at so uniform positions, nice places also are:
A1U18-A1U19, A5U27-A5U28, A8U18-A8U19

CODFW Row B: B1U21-22, B5U32-33, B8U21-22

CODFW Row C: C1U21-22, C5U21-22, C8U21-22

Any of those combinations or permutations of those seems fine to me. Of course take these proposals with a grain of salt, I am not physically present in the DC to verify they are valid positions and @Papaul is probably the best person to recommend where to put those boxes in.

Network configuration wise, ports should be trunk with the native vlan being the private vlan for the row

@RobH, @Papaul after the boxes are racked and plugged in etc, ping me so I can help with the switch configu

I think the best place to put those server will be Rack in position 5

A5U27 A5U28
B5U15 B5U32
C5U21 C5U27

@Rob what do you think?