Prerequisites and limitations
Fuel enables you to deploy environments with multiple features. However,
some of the features have special requirements. Depending on the environment
configuration that you want to create, verify that your hardware, as well as
your software configurations meet the corresponding requirements.
Prerequisites and limitations for VMware vSphere
Prerequisites |
Limitations |
- Fuel NSX or Fuel DVS plugin installed before you start creating an
OpenStack environment.
- A pre-configured VMware vSphere environment that includes VMware
ESXi and VMware vCenter cluster.
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N/A |
Prerequisites and limitations for workload acceleration
Prerequisites |
Limitations |
- CPU pinning supported for all platforms.
- For Huge Pages size of 2 MB all platforms are supported.
- For Huge Pages size of 1 GB, CPU of the selected platform must
support this feature.
- SR-IOV requires SR-IOV support by the physical NIC, as well as
support for Huge Pages in CPU and motherboard.
- DPDK requires Huge Pages, NIC support, Intel CPU (or QEMU)
NFV workload.
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- VMware vSphere as a compute back end is not supported.
- The supported network topology is Neutron with VLAN segmentation or
Neutron with tunneling (VXLAN) segmentation.
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