<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:08 PM Jones, Bruce E <<a href="mailto:bruce.e.jones@intel.com">bruce.e.jones@intel.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">> Is there such minimum spec for NICs to achieve better performance (low latency/less packet loss)?
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<p class="MsoNormal">No, not really. We have this [1] but that is more about network setup than NIC requirements. For small clusters 1g NICs should be fine but 10g might be needed for larger clusters or network intensive workloads.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">StarlingX supports DPDK and Time Sensitive Networking, both of which significantly reduce packet latency.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you, Bruce!</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_1014816709167811290WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[1] <a href="https://docs.starlingx.io/planning/kubernetes/network-requirements.html" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> open infra <<a href="mailto:openinfradn@gmail.com" target="_blank">openinfradn@gmail.com</a>> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 23, 2021 1:24 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Starlingx-discuss] STX supported/recommended hardware<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Bruce,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:54 AM Jones, Bruce E <<a href="mailto:bruce.e.jones@intel.com" target="_blank">bruce.e.jones@intel.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Danishka. The StarlingX project documents hardware requirements in the installation guides. For instance this doc [1] describes the min hardware requirements for the Standard
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<p class="MsoNormal">Most testing of StarlingX occurs outside of community resources. My company has a test lab consisting of a range of systems that we use for testing. In general the software supports
the amd64 architecture and I would recommend Xeon-D series processors or the equivalent as a minimum for controller and worker nodes.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there such minimum spec for NICs to achieve better performance (low latency/less packet loss)?
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<p class="MsoNormal">It’s really your budget and your workload requirements that determine how much capacity you need. You can see this link [2] for more info on planning a deployment.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<a href="https://docs.starlingx.io/deploy_install_guides/r4_release/bare_metal/dedicated_storage_hardware.html" target="_blank">
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<a href="https://docs.starlingx.io/planning/index.html" target="_blank">https://docs.starlingx.io/planning/index.html</a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> open infra <<a href="mailto:openinfradn@gmail.com" target="_blank">openinfradn@gmail.com</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 22, 2021 9:43 AM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there a recommended hardware list or a list of tested (by community) hardware?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<u></u><u></u></p>
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