SONiC Hardware Testing Lab @ UNH
The SONiC Community Hardware Testing Lab is hosted and maintained by the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab (UNH-IOL) on behalf of the Linux Foundation SONiC Project. Its core mission is to serve as a community testbed, facilitating continuous integration (CI/CD) and automated testing on a diverse array of hardware platforms provided by SONiC project members. By dedicating this infrastructure to community pipelines, the lab delivers critical transparency into the quality of SONiC images, validates feature readiness across various vendor equipment, and dramatically improves the community's ability to efficiently troubleshoot issues and accelerate development.
Access to the lab (physical or remote), in the form of: 1) Providing switch hardware into the testbed; 2) Access to hardware in the lab for test debugging; or 3)Connection of Automated Testing Frameworks; is governed by the following policies:
To request access to the laboratory, please contact [email protected]. Please include your full name, company, and a description of the access requested and purpose. The UNH-IOL will confirm all access requests with the appropriate points of contact or SONiC TSC. Further specific configuration details will be provided at the time access is granted / approved.
The figure below describes the general access controls applied to the testbed’s logical networking.
The testbed aims to implement the physical topology as described in the Testbed Overview documentation. This deployment will evolve as equipment is added to the testbed, with the documentation on this page being updated as DUTs are deployed into the lab.
Currently, each DUT within the lab is assigned to a specific Automated Test Engine. This is to prevent trashing or conflicts between automated test runs. In the figure, a mechanism may be provided to allow the automation systems to “check out / in” DUTs, to support reuse of hardware within the lab.
The following DUTs are operating within the lab:
- Assigned Automated Test Engine:
- Connected Topology: Topology-1 (no dedicated traffic generator)
- DUT:
- SONiC Management Address: dell-s5232f-dut.sonic.iol.unh.edu
- BMC Management Address: dell-s5232f-dut-bmc.sonic.iol.unh.edu
- Service Ports:
- Ethernet128 (10G Port 33): Not Connected
- Ethernet129 (10G Port 34): Not Connected
- Fanout Switch:
- Switch Type: Dell S5232F-ON
- SONiC Management Address: dell-s5232f-fanout.sonic.iol.unh.edu
- BMC Management Address: dell-s5232f-fanout-bmc.sonic.iol.unh.edu
- Service Ports:
- Ethernet128 (10G Port 33): Not Connected
- Ethernet129 (10G Port 34): Not Connected