Rack Installation

Pre-installation Preparations

Review each of the areas below to confirm that all environment prerequisites are met:

Facilities, power and network connector specifications
Network preparations
Other rack integration requirements
- subdomain delegated to Oxide for rack service and instance DNS
- SSL certificate chain and key for the Oxide subdomain
- SAML-based identity provider for rack user authentication, if applicable
- firewall settings configured to allow the rack to access all integration points (i.e. NTP, DNS, identity provider)

You will also consider how you want to set up the first Silo and its identity provider integration. See Completing Rack Configuration for the complete list of attributes involved.

Preliminary Product Inspection

Upon the receiving and uncrating of the Oxide Rack, verify that the package include the following items:

Rack unit
- 16 or 32 compute servers (“Gimlets”)
- 2 switches (“Sidecar”)
- Cabled backplane
- Power shelf, including the Power Shelf Controller (PSC)
1 front door
2 rear doors
6 side panels
Power whips
Hot-swappable components covered in the purchase order

Perform the following visual inspection:

For each server sled, shine a light into the cubby to look for any physical tampering or damage
Confirm that cables are properly connected
Check that the rear connectors of the sleds appear intact
Verify that components intended for hot-service are all present and fully latched in place

Rack Installation in Datacenter

Once the rack has been placed in the desired location, follow the installation instructions that come with the rack. Here is a summary of the high-level steps: