[Starlingx-discuss] STX supported/recommended hardware

[open infra]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:08 PM Jones, Bruce E <bruce.e.jones at intel.com>
wrote:

> > Is there such minimum spec for NICs to achieve better performance (low
> latency/less packet loss)?
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> 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.
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> StarlingX supports DPDK and Time Sensitive Networking, both of which
> significantly reduce packet latency.
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Thank you, Bruce!


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>         Brucej
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> [1]
> https://docs.starlingx.io/planning/kubernetes/network-requirements.html
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> *From:* open infra <openinfradn at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 23, 2021 1:24 AM
> *To:* Jones, Bruce E <bruce.e.jones at intel.com>
> *Cc:* starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io
> *Subject:* Re: [Starlingx-discuss] STX supported/recommended hardware
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> Hi Bruce,
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> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:54 AM Jones, Bruce E <bruce.e.jones at intel.com>
> wrote:
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> 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 with Dedicated Storage configuration.
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> 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.
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> Is there such minimum spec for NICs to achieve better performance (low
> latency/less packet loss)?
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> 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.
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>        brucej
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> [1]
> https://docs.starlingx.io/deploy_install_guides/r4_release/bare_metal/dedicated_storage_hardware.html
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> [2] https://docs.starlingx.io/planning/index.html
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> *From:* open infra <openinfradn at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, February 22, 2021 9:43 AM
> *To:* starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io
> *Subject:* [Starlingx-discuss] STX supported/recommended hardware
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> Hi,
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> Is there a recommended hardware list or a list of tested (by community)
> hardware?
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> Regards,
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> Danishka
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> Regards,
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> Danishka
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