1. Sr. SE 정연구
Feb.18. 2016
Mellanox CloudX– Enhanced Cloud Performance Acceleration
and Efficient Virtual Networking.

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Leading Supplier of End-to-End Interconnect Solutions
Software and ServicesICs Switches/GatewaysAdapter Cards Cables/ModulesMetro / WAN
StoreAnalyze
Enabling the Use of Data
At the Speeds of 10, 25, 40, 50, 56 and 100 Gigabit per Second
Comprehensive End-to-End InfiniBand and Ethernet Portfolio

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The Future Depends on the Fastest Interconnects
10Gb/s 100Gb/s1Gb/s
The Future Depends on Mellanox

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25Gb/s is the new 10, 50 is the new 40, and 100 is the Present
Flexibility, Opportunities, Speed
Open Ethernet, Zero Packet Loss
Most Cost-Effective Ethernet Adapter
Same Infrastructure, Same Connectors
One Switch. A World of Options. 25, 50, 100Gb/s at Your Fingertips

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Spectrum – 25GbE, 50GbE and 100GbE Open Ethernet Switch
 Leading performance & power
• World’s only non-blocking 100G, 6.4Tb/s switch
• Sub-300ns port-to-port latency
• RDMA over Converged Ethernet
• Lowest power (<135W)
 Cloud-scale
• Network virtualization at scale
• Bandwidth optimization
• Flexible SDN pipeline
 Key Features
• 32 ports of 40/100GbE
• 64 ports of 10/25/50GbE
• Advanced QoS and congestion control
• Dynamically shared buffer
One Switch.
A World of Options.
Zero Packet Loss For All Packets Sizes

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ConnectX-4 Lx: Affordable 25GbE Performance
 Affordable 25GbE / 50GbE Performance
• 2.5X the performance vs 10 GbE with same connectors / infrastructure
• 0.7us latency, 75 million messages per second
• The standard against which other Ethernet adapters will be compared
 Optimized to deliver higher ROI
• Public and private Clouds
• Hyperscale Web 2.0 infrastructures
• Cost Effective Big Data and Analytics systems
 Advanced features
• Advanced Network Virtualization & Overlay Networks Offloads
- VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE
• RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
• Multi-Host Technology
• Fully featured embedded switch (eSwitch)
- Hardware acceleration of Open vSwitch
- VM traffic steering, monitoring enforcement

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Converged Infrastructure Relies on Efficient Data Movement
 Efficient Data Movement
• Multi-Host & eSwitch: Embedded hardware OVS switch – Advance Flow Steering Engine
• Virtual network acceleration (VXLAN, NVGRE, GENEVE)
• RDMA – Efficient Data Exchange - Low Latency, Low CPU Overhead
Efficient Data Movement
With RDMA
Virtual Overlay Network
Acceleration
Embedded Switch
Hardware OVS Switch
NVGRE, VXLAN, GENEVEVM
CPU CPU CPU CPU
VM VMVM VMVM

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 CloudX is a group of reference architectures which allow
building the most efficient, high performance and scalable
Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS) clouds based on
Mellanox superior interconnect and off the shelf building
blocks
 Supports the most popular cloud software
• Vmware
• OpenStack
• Windows Azure Pack (WAP)
CloudX: Optimized Cloud Platform

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Data Path Acceleration
CloudX

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 Based on Mellanox ConnectX-4 NIC family and Switch-IB/Spectrum switches
 Bring the astonishing 100Gbps speeds to OpenStack
• Both VMs and Hypervisors
• Accelerations are critical to reach line rate
- RDMA, Overlay, etc.
100Gbps Cloud!

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Server
VM1 VM2 VM3 VM4
Overlay Networks (VXLAN/NVGRE/GENEVE) Acceleration
Overlay Network Virtualization: Isolation, Simplicity, Scalability
Virtual Domain 3
Virtual Domain 2
Virtual Domain 1
Physical
View
Server
VM5 VM6 VM7 VM8
Mellanox SDN Switches & Routers
Virtual
View
NVGRE/VXLAN Overlay Networks
Virtual Overlay Networks Simplifies
Management and VM Migration
ConnectX-3 Pro
Overlay Accelerators Enable
Bare Metal Performance

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 Advantages of Overlay Networks
• Simplification
• Automation
• Scalable
 Problem: Performance Impact!!
• Overlay tunnels add network processing
- Limits bandwidth
- Consumes CPU
 Solution:
• Overlay Network Accelerators in NIC
• Penalty free overlays at bare-metal speed
• HW encap/decap (future)
Turbocharge Overlay Networks with ConnectX-3/4 NICs

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 PCIe device presents multiple instances to the OS/Hypervisor
 Enables Application Direct Access
• Reduces CPU overhead and improves application performance
 Enable RDMA to the VM
• Low latency applications benefit from the Virtual infrastructure
Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
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Latency(us)
RoCE - SR-IOV Latency
Message Size 2B Message Size 16B Message Size 32B
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1 VM 2 VM 4 VM 8 VM 16 VM
Throughput(Gb/s)
RoCE – SR-IOV Throughput
Throughput (Gb/S)

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Value proposition: Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)
ZERO Copy Remote Data Transfer
Low Latency, High Performance Data Transfers
InfiniBand - 56Gb/s RoCE* – 40/56Gb/s
Kernel Bypass Protocol Offload
* RDMA over Converged Ethernet
Application ApplicationUSER
KERNEL
HARDWARE
Buffer Buffer

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 Using OpenStack Built-in components and management (Open-iSCSI, tgt target, Cinder), no
additional software is required, RDMA is already inbox and used by our OpenStack customers !
RDMA Provide Fastest OpenStack Storage Access
Hypervisor (KVM)
OS
VM
OS
VM
OS
VM
Adapter
Open-iSCSI w iSER
Compute Servers
Switching Fabric
iSCSI/iSER Target (tgt)
Adapter Local Disks
RDMA Cache
Storage Servers
OpenStack (Cinder)
Using RDMA
to accelerate
iSCSI storage
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1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 256
Bandwidth[MB/s]
I/O Size [KB]
iSER 4 VMs Write
iSER 8 VMs Write
iSER 16 VMs Write
iSCSI Write 8 vms
iSCSI Write 16 VMs
PCIe Limit
6X
RDMA enable 6x More Bandwidth, 5x lower I/O latency, and lower CPU%

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CEPH and Networks
 High performance networks enable maximum cluster availability
• Clients, OSD, Monitors and Metadata servers communicate over multiple network layers
• Real-time requirements for heartbeat, replication, recovery and re-balancing
 Cluster (“backend”) network performance dictates cluster’s performance and scalability
• “Network load between Ceph OSD Daemons easily dwarfs the network load between Ceph Clients
and the Ceph Storage Cluster” (Ceph Documentation)

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 Accelio, High-Performance Reliable Messaging and RPC Library
 Open source!
• https://github.com/accelio/accelio/ && www.accelio.org
 Faster RDMA integration to application
 Asynchronous
 Maximize msg and CPU parallelism
 Enable > 10GB/s from single node
 Enable < 10usec latency under load
Accelerating Ceph with RDMA – Work in Progress
140
434
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KIOPs
THOUSANDSOFIOPS
TCP RDMA
TCP
140K IOPS
RDMA
434K IOPS
Ceph Read IOPS: TCP vs. RDMA
Roadmap

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Virtual Switch Offload
 Virtual switches are used as the forwarding plane in
the hypervisor
 Virtual switches implement extensive support for
SDN (e.g. enforce policies) and are widely used by
the industry
 SRIOV technology allows direct connectivity to the
NIC, as such, it bypasses the virtual switch and the
policies it can enforce
Goal
 Enable SRIOV data plane with OVS control plane
• In other words, enable support for most SDN controllers
with SRIOV data plane
 Offload OVS flow handling (classification,
forwarding etc.) to Mellanox eSwitch
OS
VM
OS
VM
OS
VM
OS
VM
tap tap
SR-IOV
to the
VM
Embedded
Switch
vSwitch
Roadmap

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Open vSwitch – In a Nutshell
 Forwarding
• Flow-based forwarding
• Decision about how to process packet is made in user space
• First packet of new flow is directed to ovs-vswitchd, following
packets hit cached entry in kernel
 OVS Overview
• http://openvswitch.org/slides/OpenStack-131107.pdf
Roadmap

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Virtual Switch Offload - Solution
 Solution
Use Open vSwitch to be the management interface and control-
plane for the Embedded Switch (eSwitch)
 Motivation
• Enable an easy, friendly, well-known and community
accepted, management framework for eSwitch
• Leverage Open vSwitch control-plane and SDN capabilities to
control eSwitch forwarding-plane
HW forwarded Packets
eSwitch
Software
Hardware
OVS-eSwitch
Netdev
Representor
Netdev
Representor
Netdev
Representor
Netdev
Representor
eSwitch
PF (wire)
Host IP interface Host exception path (user-space)
VF VF VF
netdev netdev
Para-virt Para-virt
Hypervisor
Representor Ports
Roadmap

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Containers
 Containers provide light weight and efficient virtualization
 In host network use Linux C groups to segregate traffic
 Mellanox will enable advance network services for containers
• RDMA – Enable RDMA for InfiniBand and RoCE configuration
• SR-IOV – provide stronger traffic segregation and HW QoS enforcement
Roadmap

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Control Plan Enhancements
CloudX

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 Replicate Neutron data structures to external entities via RESTful API
 Mellanox NEO fabric management and provision tool provision the fabric accordingly
 Enables the following
• VLAN provisioning on Mellanox switches
• Dynamic InfiniBand partition key (pkey) configuration
 Support for bare metal servers provisioning (Roadmap)
Zero Touch Network Provisioning
Mellanox SDN
Assist ML2
Neutron
Core
Additional ML2s
Neutron Server Fabric
Provisioning

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Network-Aware Scheduling
OpenStack
Nova
Network-Aware
Scheduler
Scheduling
Request
Scheduling
Recommendation
Query
Network
Metrics
Network
Metrics
Network
Topology,
Status
Settings,
Monitoring
Ethernet Network
VM Spawning
 Hello Mr. Cloud, I need a VM…
• With a high link speed (67GbE for example)
• With network HA (MLAG)
• With a minimum hop count from my other VMs
• On a hypervisor that supports RDMA (RoCE)
• …and that is not currently congested
Roadmap

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Ironic Ethernet and InfiniBand Support
 Ironic is OpenStack bare metal provisioning
 Useful for High Performance Compute (HPC) and Big Data
 Ironic is lacking network provisioning
• Only flat network, no VLAN/PKEY segregation
 Mellanox is working with the community to
• Add Neutron support for Ironic
• Provide zero touch VLAN switch provision
• Enable InfiniBand support for Ironic with Neutron
Roadmap
I’m “Pixie Boots”
the mascot of the "Bear Metal" Provisioning, a.k.a Ironic

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SR-IOV High Availability
 OpenStack SR-IOV implementation doesn’t
support SR-IOV HA
 Mellanox enable transparent SR-IOV HA on a
single NIC
 LAG will be implemented by Mellanox NIC so VM
will only see a single Virtual Function (VF)
 Mode supported
• Active Active
• LACP
 Mellanox will also work with the community to
implement non transparent LAG (2 VFs per VM) NIC
Host
Virtual Function
VM
VF driver
User
Kernel
Virtual Function
Port 1 Port 2
LAG
(*) – Beta. Available per request
Roadmap

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Summary & Case

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Database ROI comparison – CloudX vs. Standard cloud
Efficient Virtual Network
Up to 56Gb/s Host Throughput
KVM Hypervisor
Open-
iSCSI w
iSER
SR-IOV
Compute Servers
OpenStack Cinder
iSCSI / iSER Target
RDMA
Storage Servers
Oracle Database with
Swingbench generate
and measure OLTP
Performance
CloudX
Conventional Cloud Network
with 10Gb/s Host Throughput
KVM Hypervisor
iSCSI
Open
vSwitch
Compute Servers
OpenStack Cinder
iSCSI Target
Storage Servers
Oracle Database with
Swingbench generate
and measure OLTP
Performance
Conventional Cloud

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Benchmark Results – CloudX Wins on Performance & Efficiency
2.2X OLTP Performance
Higher Cost Efficiency;
52% Lower Cost per Transaction
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750GB DB
COST PER UNIT OF PERFORMANCE
($ / KTPM)
Conventional Cloud CloudX
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750G DB
PERFORMANCE IN THOUSANDS OF
TRANSACTIONS PER MINUTE (KTPM)
Conventional Cloud CloudX

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Comprehensive OpenStack Integration for Switch and Adapter
Integrated with Major
OpenStack
Distributions
In-Box
Neturon-ML2
support for
mixed
environment
(VXLAN, PV,
SRIOV)
Ethernet
Neutron :
Hardware
support for
security and
isolation
Accelerating
storage
access by up
to 5X
OpenStack Plugins Create Seamless Integration , Control, & Management

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