This talk covers the design and use of an open hardware solution to run LAVA on an ARM server to validate up to 6 devices per box. Hardware provides fully isolated power control and measurement, isolated serial connection under software control, gigabit networking and a custom switch for devices which need to isolate a hardware component on the device itself.
The hardware is designed to work with the LAVA packages recently added to Debian but could be used for other software to provide PDU and serial console services over a simple telnet connection.
Individual boxes can be connected together to build a complex lab. Each box only requires power (5V, < 100W) and a connection to the internet.