Virtual Standard with Dedicated Storage Installation¶
Overview¶
The Standard with Dedicated Storage deployment option is a standard installation with independent controller, worker, and storage nodes.
A Standard with Dedicated Storage configuration provides the following benefits:
- A pool of up to 200 worker nodes 
- A 2x node high availability (HA) controller cluster with HA services running across the controller nodes in either active/active or active/standby mode 
- A storage back end solution using a two-to-9x node HA CEPH storage cluster that supports a replication factor of two or three - Up to four groups of 2x storage nodes, or up to three groups of 3x storage nodes 
 
Note
If you are behind a corporate firewall or proxy, you need to set proxy settings. Refer to Docker Proxy Configuration for details.
 
Figure 1: Standard with Dedicated Storage deployment configuration¶
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 StarlingX IPv6 Deployment for details on how to deploy a NAT64/DNS64 gateway to use StarlingX with IPv6. 
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 StarlingX IPv6 Deployment for details on how to deploy a NAT64/DNS64 gateway to use StarlingX with IPv6. 
