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

Fri Aug 18 16:58:38 UTC 2023

I'm pretty sure you will need the three NICs if you want to run it directly on bare metal. That is why I suggested you run it on Virtual Box first.

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

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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<mailto: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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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,

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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<mailto: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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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<mailto:douglas.pereira at encora.com>> escreveu:
Hi Vitalino,

have you tried to run StarlingX on a virtualized environment to execute your tests?

Regards,
Doug

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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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