Revision as of 00:19, 11 August 2019

Deployment Diagram

The recommended minimum requirements for the Bare Metal Servers for the various host types are:

Minimum Requirement	Controller Node	Storage Node	Compute Node
Number of Servers	2	2 - 9	2 - 100
Minimum Processor Class	Dual-CPU Intel® Xeon® E5 26xx Family (SandyBridge) 8 cores/socket
Minimum Memory	64 GB	64GB	32 GB
Primary Disk	500 GB SDD or NVMe	120 GB (min. 10K RPM)	120 GB (Minimum 10K RPM)
Additional Disks	None	1 or more 500 GB (min. 10K RPM) for Ceph OSD. Recommend, but not required, 1 or more SSDs or NVMe drives for Ceph journals (min. 1024 MiB per OSD journal)	For OpenStack, recommend 1 or more 500 GB (min. 10K RPM) for VM local ephemeral storage
Minimum Network Ports	Mgmt/Cluster: 1x10GE OAM: 1x1GE	Mgmt/Cluster: 1x10GE	Mgmt/Cluster: 1x10GE Data: 1 or more x 10GE
BIOS Settings	Hyper-Threading technology enabled Virtualization technology enabled VT for directed I/O enabled CPU power and performance policy set to performance CPU C state control disabled Plug & play BMC detection disabled

Prior to starting the installation, the Bare Metal Servers should be:

physically installed,
cabled for power,
cabled for networking
- with the far-end switch ports properly configured to realize the networking of the above deployment diagram
all disks should be wiped
- such that servers will boot from either the network or USB storage (if present), and
powered off.

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-= Prepare the Virtual Environment and Servers =
+= Prepare Servers =
-Create the XML definitions for the virtual servers required by this configuration option.<br />
+Prior to starting the installation, the Bare Metal Servers should be:
-This will create the XML virtual server definition for:
+* physically installed,
-* simplex-controller-0
+* cabled for power,
-<br />
+* cabled for networking
-{{caution|header=CAUTION|body=The following command will also start the X-based graphical virt-manager application; if their is no X-server present then errors will occur.}}
+** with the far-end switch ports properly configured to realize the networking of the above deployment diagram
-{{caution|header=NOTE|body=The following command will also start/virtually-powered-on the 'simplex-controller-0' virtual server.}}
+* all disks should be wiped
-<pre>
+** such that servers will boot from either the network or USB storage (if present), and
-bash setup_configuration.sh -c simplex -i ./bootimage.iso
+* powered off.
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