I would say them getting them new from TF or HPE is the optimal setup, but as long as they meet some requirements (no older than Dell 12th Gen or HP 8th gen, etc, etc) they should be able to be certified by one of the approved certifiers as described in the other post.
GEP Gold Certified Farming Specs (CLOSED)
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We currently have 2 x 100MB connections. If usage increases I’m happy to upgrade them but ideally won’t add that additional expense until that is actually needed. Could we add some kind of usage trigger?
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I feel that IPv4 addresses are still some blocker to drive usage, do you have any already available on grid3 ?
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I could expand my public block and make some available, is there Anywhere that explains how I would configure them?
I’ve got 2.5 gigabit spread across 3 nodes.
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yes agree should indeed change this
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agree, we should come up with some certification process, will be for later will add this to the proposal
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I’d add a requirement for gold certified, which is that these farmers run at least 1 TFChain / L1 validator node. After all, they have full interest in securing the network.
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Will there also be lower tiers of certifications? I personally have high quality internet and equipment… but I wasn’t planning to put them in a high level tier datacenter…
Since the poll is approved now… what are the next steps here? pretty much can’t wait to apply.
Was planning on sending some units I was prepping tonight to my cabinet at my preferred DC, though have access to several. Bandwidth makes me laugh. I have a 40Gbps port. And blocks of IP’s are cheap, relatively, but not cheap enough to pay for themselves on three fold yet. But if my farming yields went up 50%, I can provide some IP’s….
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After the informations about goldfarming are updated with the community feedback it still says initially HPE & ThreeFold when it comes to the recognized vendors. Please confirm, that’s this includes DELL as well…
Is there any time schedule about implementing goldfarming rewards into the grid and when to start the verification process?
He refers to HPE because there is some kind of memo between them to supply servers.
Now that voting is closed, will this GEP be implemented in time for minting June’s tokens?
I expect it will still take some time for certification process and all details to be worked out, probably not in time for June’s minting.
I’m in favor of not requiring farmers to hit bandwidth requirements upfront. This adds some complexity in terms of needing to monitor/enforce, however, and also needing to define what is the threshold.
Head to the farm management section of the portal, expand your farm, then expand public IPs section and hit Add IP. Specify addresses using CIDR format and add the gateway too. Thanks 
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Hello i’m switching DC’s because my old dc doesn’t fulfill the requirements but i hope this one does!
My datacenter is called Serverius and is based in the Netherlands this is what they can do:
At least Two Internet Service Provider connections
5 Ipv4 adresses per node
2 switches per whole server chassis
1G up/down
- ISO 27001 Certfied
- NEN 7510 Certified
Hardware
HPE Proliant DL360 Generation 9 SFF
Processor: 2x E5-2696v4 44C 88T
Memory: 704gb DDR4 22x 32gb 2400mHz PC4-17000P
1x Samsung 870 qvo 8TB SATA
1x Samsung 870 qvo 1TB SATA
I have 42 of these nodes, would like to support the community in as many ways as possible.
Total capacity 42 nodes: 3696vCPUs, 29568gb RAM, 378.000 GB SSD storage
- 20 nodes have 16TB HDD storage so that brings total to 320.000 GB HDD storage
What are the other requirements about gold certifiacation.
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The specs for gold haven’t been nailed down yet, but 2 routers was mentioned above. Its unclear if he is referring to a high availability setup or not.
Hi - Love the fact that you have not chosen a datacenter in/around A’dam. Even though a small country there is so much more to the Netherlands!
With regards to the specs and requirements, I’ll reread the thread and sum it all up, and then close the thread (threads should not be open forever, no one can be created to augment the outcome of others). Then we have to find a way how we can “validate” a farm being gold spec’ed. Give me 24 hours to complete this 
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Yes they have multiple DC’s in East-Netherlands, but this one has all facilities for sure. Must rent a full rack because of the Ampere power, but that’s no case because there can fit 52U. There is more then cheese and tulps yes, soon threefold capacity will add to that list.
Maybe i can get some confirmation from them, i do have documents regarding ISO certification, and a contract between the DC is best way to go i suggest.
Recap of the original GEP definition, changes/additions marked in italic that summarizes athe open questions and remarks. Please comment/suggest if you feel I missed your contribution. Will try to close this over the weekend.
For clarity Gold certified farming specs are defined against 3nodes and where these 3nodes “live”. It is therefore advisable to create one (or more) farms per location that have 3nodes of a single type (DYI, certified or gold certified. Mixing of types of 3nodes in a single farm is discouraged.
Gold Farming Qualification requirements
Summarized and ordered the requirements per category. Changes and additions are done in italic
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FARM HARDWARE:
- Hardware purchased from a recognized vendor (approved by DAO). Initially HPE & ThreeFold hardware but this will be expanded to other vendors like Dell, IBM, SuperMicro etc. There is no process defining how to do this. TBD in the coming weeks.
- The 3Nodes need to be certified (can be done by TFTech or other actors on blockchain). There is no process defining how to do this. TBD in the coming weeks.
- Two power supplies or PDU with 2 power feeds which automatically failover. Two complete independent power paths to each 3node, meaning each 3node has to have a redundant power supply connected to independent power feeds.
- Uptime achieved 99.8%. We need more detail around the requirement of this. Uptime is defined per month per server, but how many months can you miss before you lose the gold certified status? Can you loose the certified status per node, or is the whole farm affected?
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FARM NETWORK: At least Two Internet Service Provider connections. These two network upstream connections should be made available to each and every 3node that is part of the Gold certification. This translates to:
- Two routers per rack. In Tier 3 and up datacenters the network infrastructure is redundant up to the rack. The two in rack routers are a failover setup that uses the available redundant network insfrastructure of a datacenter where the two router have separate cables to the datacenter network. For some datacenters farmers might have a choice from two connectivity suppliers to connect to in the meet-me room.
- Network connection at least 1GBit/sec per TBD nr of CU/SU This will require some further definition. In other threads, amounts are being discussed and once completed we will add them here.
- Minimum 5 IPv4 addresses per server. This means addresses available to attach the 3nodes with a public IP address to the internet (1 per 3node) and/or a pool of IP addresses which is available for VM’s on 3nodes to have a public network connection
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FARM LOCATION:
- Tier 3 or 4 datacenter certified to ISO 27001
- Geographic decentralization - no more than one full datacenter rack per TBD Region size unless and until utilization in that rack is > 50%. This requires more definition. There are densely populated areas that require more community cloud capacity than scarcely populated areas. Farmers can propose to create more capacity in a single (densely populated area) and still be Gold certified, DAO will decide. We need to finalize this skeleton process over the coming weeks.
Farming reward simulator.
See HERE
The gold certified farming is updated in this calculator (50% more farming reward and better SU calculation price). Please note that each Certified farm will have to be approved by the TFGRID DAO.
TODO
link to GEP to approve specs of new TFGRID DAO improvements
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