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See the [https://docs.starlingx.io/deploy_install_guides/index.html StarlingX Deploy and Installation Guide] for information on installing StarlingX.  This wiki page has been deprecated.
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== Intro ==
 
== Intro ==
  
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* '''Virtual Environment''': It should only be used for evaluation or development purposes.
 
* '''Virtual Environment''': It should only be used for evaluation or development purposes.
 
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StarlingX installed in virtual environments has two options currently known to work:
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StarlingX installed in virtual environments has two options:
 
* [[Installation_libvirt_qemu|Libvirt/QEMU]]
 
* [[Installation_libvirt_qemu|Libvirt/QEMU]]
 
* VirtualBox
 
* VirtualBox
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=== Bare Metal ===
 
=== Bare Metal ===
  
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The minimum requirements for the physical servers where StarlingX might be deployed, include:
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* '''Controller Hosts'''
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** Minimum Processor is:
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*** Dual-CPU Intel® Xeon® E5 26xx Family (SandyBridge) 8 cores/socket
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** Minimum Memory: 64 GB
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** Hard Drives:
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*** Primary Hard Drive, minimum 500 GB for OS and system databases.
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*** Secondary Hard Drive, minimum 500 GB for persistent VM storage.
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** 2 physical Ethernet interfaces: OAM and MGMT Network.
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** USB boot support.
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** PXE boot support.
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* '''Storage Hosts'''
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** Minimum Processor is:
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*** Dual-CPU Intel® Xeon® E5 26xx Family (SandyBridge) 8 cores/socket.
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** Minimum Memory: 64 GB.
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** Hard Drives:
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*** Primary Hard Drive, minimum 500 GB for OS.
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*** 1 or more additional Hard Drives for CEPH OSD storage, and
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*** Optionally 1 or more SSD or NVMe Drives for CEPH Journals.
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** 1 physical Ethernet interface: MGMT Network
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** PXE boot support.
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* '''Compute Hosts'''
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** Minimum Processor is:
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*** Dual-CPU Intel® Xeon® E5 26xx Family (SandyBridge) 8 cores/socket.
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** Minimum Memory: 32 GB.
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** Hard Drives:
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*** Primary Hard Drive, minimum 500 GB for OS.
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*** 1 or more additional Hard Drives for ephemeral VM Storage.
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** 2 or more physical Ethernet interfaces: MGMT Network and 1 or more Provider Networks.
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** PXE boot support.
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The recommended minimum requirements for the physical servers are described later in each StarlingX Deployment Options guide.
 
The recommended minimum requirements for the physical servers are described later in each StarlingX Deployment Options guide.
  
 
=== Virtual Environment ===
 
=== Virtual Environment ===
  
The recommended minimum requirements for the workstation, running the Virtual Machine(s) where StarlingX will be deployed, include:
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The recommended minimum requirements for the workstation, hosting the Virtual Machine(s) where StarlingX will be deployed, include:
  
 
==== Hardware Requirements ====
 
==== Hardware Requirements ====
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==== Deployment Environment Setup ====
 
==== Deployment Environment Setup ====
  
This section describes how to set up a StarlingX system in a workstation computer. After completing these steps, you will be able to deploy and run your StarlingX system on the following Linux distribution:
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This section describes how to set up the workstation computer which will host the Virtual Machine(s) where StarlingX will be deployed.
 
 
* Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit
 
  
 
===== Updating Your Operating System =====
 
===== Updating Your Operating System =====
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== Getting the StarlingX ISO Image ==
 
== Getting the StarlingX ISO Image ==
  
Follow the instructions from [[StarlingX/Developer_Guide]] to build a StarlingX ISO image. Copy the StarlingX ISO Image to the ''<stx-deployment>'' libvirt project directory naming it as bootimage.iso:
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Follow the instructions from [[StarlingX/Developer_Guide]] to build a StarlingX ISO image.  
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=== Bare Metal ===
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A bootable USB flash drive containing StarlingX ISO image.
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=== Virtual Environment ===
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Copy the StarlingX ISO Image to the stx-tools deployment libvirt project directory:
  
 
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$ cp <starlingx iso image> $HOME/stx-tools/deployment/libvirt/bootimage.iso
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$ cp <starlingx iso image> $HOME/stx-tools/deployment/libvirt/
 
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* Standard Controller
 
* Standard Controller
** [[StarlingX/Installation Guide Virtual Environment/Dedicated Storage|StarlingX Cloud with Dedicated Storage Virtual Environment]]
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** [[StarlingX/Installation Guide/Dedicated Storage|StarlingX Cloud with Dedicated Storage]]
** [[StarlingX/Installation Guide Virtual Environment/Controller Storage|StarlingX Cloud with Controller Storage Virtual Environment]]
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** [[StarlingX/Installation Guide/Controller Storage|StarlingX Cloud with Controller Storage]]
 
* All-in-one
 
* All-in-one
** [[StarlingX/Installation Guide Virtual Environment/Duplex|StarlingX Cloud Duplex Virtual Environment]]
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** [[StarlingX/Installation Guide/Duplex|StarlingX Cloud Duplex]]
** [[StarlingX/Installation Guide Virtual Environment/Simplex|StarlingX Cloud Simplex Virtual Environment]]
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** [[StarlingX/Installation Guide/Simplex|StarlingX Cloud Simplex]]
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Latest revision as of 20:53, 26 July 2019


See the StarlingX Deploy and Installation Guide for information on installing StarlingX. This wiki page has been deprecated.