Hi Adrien Macor,

To help you quickly catch up about StarlingX, you can get more info from https://starlingx.io

Once you have some basic knowledge about StarlingX, and you like to have some hands-on, you can reach out to this community.

 

For your questions below, pls see my inline comments.

 

Regards,

Yong

 

On 04/06/2019, 12:19 AM, "Adrien Macor" <adrien.macor@hotmail.com> wrote:

 

Hi,

I'm currently doing my bachelor thesis in the School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg.

The name of this project is "Edge cloud orchestration and monitoring" and I'm now interresting on StarlingX.

 

I have a few question for you:

1.      I read this documentation: https://docs.starlingx.io/deployment_guides/current/duplex.html

NOTE: The instructions to setup a StarlingX All-in-One Duplex (AIO-DX) with containerized openstack services in this guide are under development. For approved instructions, see the All in One Duplex Configuration wiki page.

docs.starlingx.io

2.      , but something is still not clear for me: let's suppose I have three physical servers; two on the same area, and the last one elsewhere (not on the same network) <I suppose this server is still able to connect with other 2 servers>. May I use this infrastructure with StarlingX? <Yes, with 2018.10 release and near-future stx.3.0 release, but the feature (called dist-cloud) is temporarily absent in incoming stx.2.0 release due to architecture change.> If I understand correctly, as long as I have the connectivity between all my servers it's possible.

3.      StarlingX enables to deploy VNF over the edge, but what's his differences with something like Vmware, another virtualization tool? <StarlingX is compatible with NFV standard, and you can build your VNFs in VMs created/managed by Openstack in StarlingX>

4.      Last one: is it better to deploy one VNF over all my edge sites, or deploy multiple VNFs over all my edge sites, or split one VNF over all my edge... and so on. Or it depends on what the VNF is? <StarlingX is an infrastructure, so how to deploy VNF is out of the scope. My personal opinion is VNF placements or partition is highly relying on your use cases and requirements>

Thanks for the reply

 

Adriano Macor