Mellanox demos presented at Interop Tokyo, 2014 by Kazusa Tomonaga, Sr. System Engineer for Mellanox. The event was held June 11-13, 2014 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba Pref., Japan

1. Kazusa Tomonaga – Sr. System Engineer, Japan
June-11-13,2014 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba Pref., Japan
Interop Tokyo 2014 – Mellanox Demonstrations

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Interop Tokyo 2014 – Demonstrations
 Mellanox Japan joined the Interop Tokyo 2014 and Shownet
• Joint promotion with Altima, a distributor of Mellanox in Japan
 Overview of Interop Tokyo 2014
• Venue
- Makuhari Messe, Chiba Pref., Japan
• Shownet building up period
- May-29~June-10, 2014
• Exhibitions/Shownet public viewing
- June-11~13, 2014 (June-10 is the preparation day)
 Demonstrations
• Shownet demo
- 10/40GbE Switches -- 2x SX1012, 1x SX1024, 1x SX1036
- 40GbE NICs – ConnectX-3, ConnectX-3Pro
• Booth demo
- Multiple Virtualization Platform Demo with 40GbE end-to-end – “Mini-Cloud System”
 Windows Server 2012R2/Hyper-V, VMware ESXi5.5u1, OpenStack/Icehouse(on Ubuntu14.04)
 40GbE storage systems – Toshiba iSCSI/iSER storage(beta version), NewTech Cloudy II NAS(SMB Direct)

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Interop Best of Show Award
 Mellanox SX1012 – Special Award
• What we explained to the judges
- 2x SX1012 in 1U with MLAG
- Nice fit port counts for Japanese
customers and storage systems
- Excellent cost performance
- Ultra low power
Finalists– Huawei, FXC, Mellanox, NEC, Juniper and Cisco

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Interop Tokyo 2014 – Booth Map
Joint booth with our distributor, Altima
Shownet racks

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Shownet @ Interop Tokyo 2014

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Shownet 2014 Theme – Scratch and Re-build the Internet
(English)
Shownet is the leading edge of the industry and technologies, large scale networks which enable to show our future.
Question : Will our existing Internet be able to continue for 10 years more?!
Source : http://www.interop.jp/2014/shownet/point.html

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The Concept of Shownet at Interop Tokyo
I know it works because I saw it at Interop.
Quoted from http://interop.jp/2014/shownet/point.html and translated into English.
Above phrase was the catch phrase when the first Interop was held in Japan, back in 1994.
This sentence shows the basic concept of the Interop.
“I want to see that the networks are actually running with my eyes. If you come to the Interop Tokyo, you will see it.”
Nowadays, we can find various information on the web, even though, every attendees for Interop Tokyo enjoy the Shownet and can satisfy
their such strong demands.
Shownet is the name of the real network system which is built at the event hall, Makuhari Messe, and has below points.
1. The reality of the next generation networking
2. Tests of the technologies of the infrastructure, which will be mandatory for the future Internet infrastructure.
3. The real networks, not experimental
4. The World’s largest live demonstration
5. All of the equipment will be contributed by joining vendors

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SX1012 / 12 x 40GbE
with MLAG Configuration
Mellanox in Shownet @ Interop Tokyo 2014 – Map View
SX1036 / 36 x 40GbE
SX1024 / 48 x 10GbE + 12 x 40GbE
http://www.interop.jp/2014/shownet/images/point.pdf

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Mellanox in Shownet @ Interop Tokyo 2014 – Connection View
SX1012 / 12 x 40GbE
with MLAG Configuration
SX1036 / 36 x 40GbE
SX1024 / 48 x 10GbE + 12 x 40GbE
Connected with :
• 2x Dell S4820T(MLAG)
• Ixia Tester
• IBM x3250 M4 with ConnectX-3Pro
Connected with :
• Dell PowerEdge C6220 w/ ConnectX-3
• Dell PowerEdge R720 w/ ConnectX-3
• Dell EqualLogic PS6010E
Connected with :
• NEC IP8800/S3830
• Juniper QFX5100
• Cisco Nexus 9396PX
• Huawei NE40E-X2-M16
http://www.interop.jp/2014/shownet/images/point03.pdf

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Mellanox in Shownet @ Interop Tokyo 2014 – Highlight
 The World’s First demo with Midokura Midonet + RedHat RHEL7 + Mellanox VXLAN offload(ConnectX-3Pro 40GbE) at Shownet.
 The demo system was up and running at Shownet during the Interop period.
Configuration at Shownet
http://www.mellanox.co.jp/news/press20140609_MLNX_CloudX.html

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Demos at Mellanox Booth

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Demo Configuration – Mini-Multiplatform Cloud System at Booth
Network Configuration
Toshiba
40GbE/IB FDR Storage(Beta)
NewTech
SMB Direct NAS
Each servers has 1x dual port 40GbE NIC
SX1012
Interop 2014 Best of Show Award
Special Prize

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Demo Overview – VMware ESXi5.5u1
 Windows Server 2012 R2 as Guest OS
 Guest OS vs Guest OS
• Benchmark tool : NTttcp.exe + IOmeter
• Showing 40GbE live network performance
*The performance number is only as an example for the demo in this configuration, may vary depending on the configuration.

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Demo Overview – Windows Server 2012 R2 / Hyper-V
 Guest OS on Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2012 R2
 SMB Direct I/O to Windows NAS
• Benchmark tool : Iometer
- 1MB sequential read – showing the live demo performance
 NVGRE traffics between 2xVMs vs 2xVMs on Hyper-V
• Benchmark tool : NTttcp.exe
• VXLAN offload disabled – measured and showing the capture of performance
• VXLAN offload enabled – showing the live demo performance
NVGRE Performance
H/W offload Disabled H/W offload Enabled
SMB Direct performance
~1.8GB/s ~3.8GB/s
~4.5GB/s
40GbE NIC with NVGRE offload
*The performance number is only as an example for the demo in this configuration, may vary depending on the configuration.

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OpenStack/Icehouse on Ubuntu14.04 – iSER/40GbE RoCE
 1x Controller node (iSER target/tgt – RAMDISK)
 1x Compute node (iSER initiator/open-iscsi)
 Guest OS : Ubuntu14.04
• fio 16x1MB random read : ~4.3GB/s – showing the live demo
RAMDISK
Nova-compute
Nova-network
Nova
Keystone
Glance
Cinder
Ubuntu14.04 + fio
*The performance number is only as an example for the demo in this configuration, may vary depending on the configuration.

16. Thank You