OS Requirements

Operating System

• Ubuntu Server 24.04 with HWE kernel

Required Packages

• ipmitool - IPMI management
• lm-sensors - Hardware monitoring
• smartmontools - Disk health monitoring
• bridge-utils - Network bridge utilities
• podman - Container runtime
• catatonit - Container init
• python3-podman - Python Podman bindings
• python3-pip - Python package manager
• libvirt-clients - Virtualization tools
• ovmf - UEFI firmware for VMs
• chrony - NTP time synchronization

Storage Configuration

Disk Layout

• Two disks in RAID1 (mdraid) configuration
• GPT partition table on both disks
• EFI partitions on both disks (FAT32, ~256MB)
• Root filesystem on RAID1 array (ext4)
• Swap disabled
• UEFI boot from both disks

Mount Points

• / - RAID1 root partition
• /boot/efi - Primary EFI partition
• /boot/efi2 - Secondary EFI partition

Network Configuration

• Netplan v2 configuration
• systemd-networkd with --any wait-online behavior

Physical Interfaces

• VLAN trunk interface named to physical0

VLAN Interfaces

• frontend0 - VLAN 101 on physical0 (default gateway)
• provisioning0 - VLAN 102 on physical0

Kernel Parameters

• amd_iommu=on - AMD IOMMU enabled
• iommu=pt - IOMMU passthrough mode
• Nouveau driver blacklisted

Services

SSH

• OpenSSH server installed
• Key-based authentication configured
• Root SSH access enabled

NTP (Chrony)

• Custom NTP pool configuration
• pool.ntp.org as primary source

System Configuration

• Root user enabled
• GRUB recordfail timeout: 3 seconds
• Docker directory pre-created (/var/lib/docker)
• open-iscsi removed