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<p class="MsoNormal">There is no way currently to add a node to an all-in-one. You could either deploy a duplex setup or a standard setup with one controller, but as Greg has already pointed out that has some availability issues.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Rai, Ankush <Ankush.Rai@commscope.com> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 6, 2020 9:51 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Waines, Greg <Greg.Waines@windriver.com>; starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Starlingx-discuss] starlingx Standard deployment with one controller<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Greg. I have one more question, is there a provision to add the worker node in all-in-one simplex deployment?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our intention to have only one controller node and one or more worker node.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ankush <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Waines, Greg <<a href="mailto:Greg.Waines@windriver.com">Greg.Waines@windriver.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 6, 2020 5:58 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Rai, Ankush <<a href="mailto:Ankush.Rai@commscope.com">Ankush.Rai@commscope.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io">starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Starlingx-discuss] starlingx Standard deployment with one controller<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Not really ... .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">I mean you could just configure 1x controller in a standard configuration ... and you could even suppress the alarms related to the second controller missing ...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">BUT you would not be able to make any post-install configuration changes to the controller that requires the controller to be locked, because the system will not allow you to lock the last controller in a system configuration
( ... suspect it won’t even allow you to force lock it ...).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">AND you would not be able to apply a ‘reboot-required’ patch or upgrade with a single controller in standard configuration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">... so not really.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Greg.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">"Rai, Ankush" <</span><a href="mailto:Ankush.Rai@commscope.com"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt">Ankush.Rai@commscope.com</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 10:07 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"</span><a href="mailto:starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt">starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">" <</span><a href="mailto:starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt">starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io</span></a><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Starlingx-discuss] starlingx Standard deployment with one controller<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;background:#FFEB9C"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:red">[Please note this e-mail is from an EXTERNAL e-mail address]</span><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">I understand that we should have the high-availability for the controller in the real edge-deployment, but just wanted to check the possibility of having only one controller in “bare metal Standard with Controller Storage”
deployment?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Is this kind of deployment possible and what all changes we need to have for single controller deployment?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Ankush<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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