Virtual All-in-one Simplex Installation R2.0¶
Overview¶
The All-in-one Simplex (AIO-SX) deployment option provides all three cloud functions (controller, compute, and storage) on a single server with the following benefits:
Requires only a small amount of cloud processing and storage power
Application consolidation using multiple virtual machines on a single pair of physical servers
A storage backend solution using a single-node CEPH deployment
Figure 1: All-in-one Simplex deployment configuration¶
An AIO-SX deployment gives no protection against overall server hardware fault. Hardware component protection can be enabled with, for example, a hardware RAID or 2x Port LAG in the deployment.
Note
By default, StarlingX uses IPv4. To use StarlingX with IPv6:
The entire infrastructure and cluster configuration must be IPv6, with the exception of the PXE boot network.
Not all external servers are reachable via IPv6 addresses (for example Docker registries). Depending on your infrastructure, it may be necessary to deploy a NAT64/DNS64 gateway to translate the IPv4 addresses to IPv6.
Refer to the StarlingX IPv6 Deployment guide for details on how to deploy a NAT64/DNS64 gateway to use StarlingX with IPv6.
