Introduction

aurologic offers Dedicated Servers across multiple different datacenter regions. A dedicated server is defined as a baremetal server with exclusive access, being connected at 1Gbps/10Gbps/40Gbps or 100Gbps. With AMD and Intel processor, aurologic aims to fulfill every customers needs.

Automated Deployment

In order to build and deploy large quantities of servers, aurologic has built a automated server deployment tool-set, offering the ability to load-test, create and maintain servers in a simple manner. This includes the inventory of hardware as well as processes to automatically configure IPMI and Raid.

DHCP Server

Any ip-address assigned by aurologic is being made available through DHCP. This includes both public ip-address space as well as internal IPMI address space. DHCP allows aurologic to boot it's deployment tool-set even though when a server has not been assigned to a customer yet. Also it allows to automatically assign available ip-address space for IPMI. The same is made persistent by automation infrastructure.

Hardware Sensors

IPMI exposed hardware sensors are being scraped every 60 seconds by an microservice, storing the same long-term within a time-series capable database. Those sensors are being automatically analyzed and used for hardware health monitoring.

IPMI Access

The customer is able to securely access the IPMI of his server through a protected, TLS secured gateway, offering IP whitelisting as well as TLS termination. Requests are forwarded into the internal network, being seperated from public internet for security reasons.

Network Connectivity

Each cabinet (rack) operated by aurologic usually offers capacity of 100Gbps. aurologic uses 100Gbps capable switches, offering 10/25/40/100Gbps connectivity through breakout cables or direct DAC. Dedicated Servers are being built with Mellanox network cards, as they offer best in class performance, driver support as well as PXE capabilities. Other NIC vendors tested didnt allow the same throughput, brought limitations with frameworks like XDP or were not able to meet criteria like being able to boot from PXE.

Servers with two connected NIC ports are typically being provisioned in cabinets with two switches, offering redundancy through MLAG. Customers can always request higher capabity uplink for enhanced connectivity - or specialized network cards like Nvidia Mellanox ConnectX-6 for high throughput packet processing. Every server connected, provides the booked capacity. There is no shared capacity with aurologic.