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# Appendix

## Appendix

This section contains links to reference documents and implementation guides to provide additional details if NCPs need them.

### Test Legend

As a part of the [AI Cloud-Ready Initiative](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/isv-validation-program/), a validation suite is provided on [GitHub](https://github.com/NVIDIA/ISV-NCP-Validation-Suite), containing a set of tests that can be run to evaluate an environment against the provided requirements and specifications.

The Test Details column in the following sections contains four options:

*###* - Github Test reference\
*TBD* - item on the github roadmap\
*add* - item to be added into the roadmap\
*INFO* - a requirement which is either not testable or currently won’t be tested from the test repo.

### Implementation Guidance

Reference documents provide additional information on implementing some of the above requirements.

1. Network Topology Discovery: [https://github.com/NVIDIA/topograph](https://github.com/NVIDIA/topograph)
2. Exemplar Cloud Website: [https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/ai-cloud-performance/](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/ai-cloud-performance/)
3. Kubernetes Security guidance : [https://github.com/kubernetes/committee-security-response](https://github.com/kubernetes/committee-security-response)

### Other Feature Considerations (Not Required)

1. Disk Cloning: Disk cloning capability (for network-attached block devices). It should be possible to clone a disk even on a running instance.