Mellanox VXLAN Acceleration

Mellanox VXLAN Acceleration

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  Mellanox VXLAN Acceleration VMWorld 2014
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  Leading Supplier ofEnd-to-End Interconnect Solutions Server / Compute Switch / Gateway Virtual Protocol Interconnect Storage Front / Back-End Virtual Protocol Interconnect 56G IB & FCoIB 56G InfiniBand 10/40/56GbE & FCoE 10/40/56GbE Comprehensive End-to-End InfiniBand and Ethernet Portfolio ICs Adapter Cards Switches/Gateways Host/Fabric Software Metro / WAN Cables/Modules © 2014 Mellanox Technologies - Mellanox Confidential Internal Use Only - 2
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  ConnectX-3 Pro isThe Next Generation Cloud Competitive Asset  World’s first Cloud offload interconnect solution  Provides hardware offloads for Overlay Networks – enables mobility, scalability, serviceability  Dramatically lowers CPU overhead, reduces cloud application cost and overall CAPEX and OPEX  Highest throughput (10/40GbE, 56Gb/s InfiniBand), SR-IOV, PCIe Gen3, low power Cloud 2.0 The Foundation of Cloud 2.0 More users Mobility Scalability Simpler Management Lower Application Cost © 2014 Mellanox Technologies - Mellanox Confidential Internal Use Only - 3
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  Protocols: VXLAN –VMware and Linux NVGRE – Windows VM VM VM VM Server Physical Switch The Challenge: Software implementation leads to performance degradation CPU overhead increases Less virtual machines can be Domain 1 supported Domain 2 Domain 3 VM VM VM VM Three virtual domains connected by Overlay Network protocols Overlay Networks What is it? Overlay Networks provide a method for “creating” virtual domains Enable large scale multi-tenant isolation VM VM VM VM Server Server © 2014 Mellanox Technologies - Mellanox Confidential Internal Use Only - 4
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  VXLAN and NVGREHardware Offload Scalable VXLAN & NVGRE Multi-tenant Isolation Cloud ConnectX-3 Pro Overlay networks Hardware offload Lowering CPU Overhead Higher Throughput OPEX and CAPEX Savings © 2014 Mellanox Technologies - Mellanox Confidential Internal Use Only - 5
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  CPU CPU PayloadPayload HyperVisor (+ vSwitch) Stateless Offload Payload VXLAN header CRC VXLAN Hardware Offload Payload VXLAN header CRC Stateless Offload Improved CPU utilization More VMs per server Higher Networking Throughput VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM HyperVisor (+ vSwitch) Mellanox ConnectX- 3 Pro Legacy NIC © 2014 Mellanox Technologies - Mellanox Confidential Internal Use Only - 6
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  VXLAN Throughput withHardware Offload 20.51 40GbE VXLAN Throughput 36.25 36.11 36.21 36.12 4.85 7.62 11.39 17.62 17.04 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 1 VM pairs 2 VM pairs 4 VM pairs 8 VM pairs 16 VM pairs Bandwidth Gb/s ConnectX3-Pro VXLAN HW offload ConnectX3-Pro VXLAN no offload © 2014 Mellanox Technologies - Mellanox Confidential Internal Use Only - 7
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  VXLAN CPU Utilization(Receive) 1.78 40GbE VXLAN Receive CPU%/1GbE 0.39 0.43 2.49 2.42 0.64 0.72 1.00 3.48 3.72 4 3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 1 VM pairs 2 VM pairs 4 VM pairs 8 VM pairs 16 VM pairs CPU%/1GbE ConnectX3-Pro VXLAN HW offload ConnectX3-Pro VXLAN no offload © 2014 Mellanox Technologies - Mellanox Confidential Internal Use Only - 8
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  CAPEX and OPEXSavings  Without VXLAN Offload  With VXLAN Offload 17 VMs 36 VMs CPU Utilization: 61% 26% Example: 1Gb/s traffic per VM © 2014 Mellanox Technologies - Mellanox Confidential Internal Use Only - 9
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