We now have two switches: an unmanaged "public" switch, and a fancy managed "management" switch. The unmanaged "public" switch can reach the internet through moc-gateway on death-star. The onboard ethernet of each Optiplex is on the management network, and their 5 dollar PCI ethernet cards are on the public network. Our cluster is partitioned into four sub-clusters, each comprising three nodes. Each is on a separate VLAN on the management network. We have a four-way KVM switch, attached to the lowest-numbered node in each subcluster. The subclusters are as follows: [{nodes=[1, 3, 5], vlan=101, kvm=1}, {nodes=[2, 4, 6], vlan=102, kvm=2}, {nodes=[7, 9, 11], vlan=107, kvm=3}, {nodes=[8, 10, 12], vlan=108, kvm=4}] death-star is on all four of these VLANs. It is not set up to PXE boot anything on them, leaving you free to set up your own PXE server on a subcluster (e.g. with Fuel). Note that PXE booting happens only on the management network. death-star can reach the management interface of the managed switch at 192.168.0.1 . This address only works on ports 13-16 of the managed switch. death-star can reach the Intel management extensions of the Optiplexes (Optiplices?) at 10.0.0.1 through 10.0.0.12 . It has a specific route in its routing table for each of these IP addresses. Again, the public network is NATted behind the moc-gateway VM on death-star. If you DHCP on that network, you will get an address in 192.168.3.0/24, corresponding directly to the machine number.