[Starlingx-discuss] StarlingX All-in-one (AIO) Simplex with only one NIC

[Vitalino Borges]

I have one machine with:
- Intel Xeon E5-2667V4
- 32 GiB of memory DDR4
- 240 GiB SSD Sata
- 1 NIC

I want to set up a full environment (StarlingX and OpenStack) with just
this machine. The idea is to be able to provision instances and explore
other OpenStack features (only for test purposes, not production).

I installed the starlingx-intel-x86-64-cd.iso on this machine in "stx
aio-sx" mode.

But looking at the documentation, the Simplex mode requires 3 NICs.

I don't have any experience with StarlingX, I would like to hear from you
the best practices for testing it.

I imagine the path is something like this:
-
https://docs.starlingx.io/r/stx.7.0/deploy_install_guides/release/bare_metal/aio_simplex_install_kubernetes.html
-
https://docs.starlingx.io/r/stx.7.0/deploy_install_guides/release/openstack/install.html

But I don't know if having only one NIC is a problem.


Em sex., 18 de ago. de 2023 às 09:41, Bruno Drugowick Muniz <
Bruno.Muniz at encora.com> escreveu:

> The instructions to use the script Douglas mentioned were recently merged
> to the Docs:
> https://docs.starlingx.io/deploy_install_guides/release/virtual/automated_install.html
>
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> *From:* Douglas Lopes Pereira <douglas.pereira at encora.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, August 18, 2023 08:54
> *To:* Vitalino Borges <vitalinobr at gmail.com>; Bruno Drugowick Muniz <
> Bruno.Muniz at encora.com>
> *Cc:* starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io <
> starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io>
> *Subject:* Re: [Starlingx-discuss] StarlingX All-in-one (AIO) Simplex
> with only one NIC
>
> Hi Vitalino,
>
> perhaps you could share what you are trying to accomplish. My initial
> suggestion was to create a VM using VirtualBox on your Ubuntu that was
> supposed to be deployed on bare metal. If you are planning to start VMs on
> top of StarlingX you will need stx-openstack as Thales and Bruno indicated.
>
> By the way, Bruno and his team created a set of scripts to automate the
> installation of starlingX on a virtualbox setup. Perhaps Bruno could share
> a link for those scripts.
>
> Regards,
>
> Douglas Lopes Pereira
> Software Development Manager
>
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> *From:* Vitalino Borges <vitalinobr at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 17, 2023 11:51 AM
> *To:* Bruno Drugowick Muniz <Bruno.Muniz at encora.com>
> *Cc:* Douglas Lopes Pereira <douglas.pereira at encora.com>;
> starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io <starlingx-discuss at lists.starlingx.io
> >
> *Subject:* Re: [Starlingx-discuss] StarlingX All-in-one (AIO) Simplex
> with only one NIC
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> Cool.
>
> And pod of OpenStack Nova does provision KVM VMs (and networks) via
> Libvirtd running bare metal on your Ubuntu?
>
> Em qui., 17 de ago. de 2023 às 11:05, Bruno Drugowick Muniz <
> Bruno.Muniz at encora.com> escreveu:
>
> Hey, Vitalino.
>
> You should be able to get an All-in-one Simplex (AIO-SX) running on top of
> an Operating System via VirtualBox with that hardware. I have the following
> and I'm able to run an AIO-SX:
>
> * Ubuntu 20.04
> * Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8265U CPU @ 1.60GHz (4 cores, 8 threads)
> * 32 GiB of memory
> * 512 GiB SSD (but you might be good with only 240)
>
>
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> *From:* Vitalino Borges <vitalinobr at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 17, 2023 09:50
> *To:* Douglas Lopes Pereira <douglas.pereira at encora.com>
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> *Subject:* Re: [Starlingx-discuss] StarlingX All-in-one (AIO) Simplex
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> I think that I do not have resources for running StarlingX virtualized.
>
> My environment has 1 machine with:
> * Intel Xeon E5-2667V4
> * 32 GiB of memory DDR4
> * 240 GiB SSD Sata
> * 1 NIC
>
>
>
>
> Em qui., 17 de ago. de 2023 às 08:24, Douglas Lopes Pereira <
> douglas.pereira at encora.com> escreveu:
>
> Hi Vitalino,
>
> have you tried to run StarlingX on a virtualized environment to execute
> your tests?
>
> Regards,
> Doug
>
> Douglas Lopes Pereira
> Software Development Manager
>
> *M: *+55 (19) 99212-3212
> Campinas, BR
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> *Subject:* [Starlingx-discuss] StarlingX All-in-one (AIO) Simplex with
> only one NIC
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> Hi
>
> I saw that in the All-in-one Simplex configuration documentation, it is
> suggested to use three NICs.
>
> Just for testing purposes with StarlingX, is it possible to configure it
> to only use one network interface?
>
>
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