Motti Beck, Director Enterprise Market Development VMworld 2014 | San Francisco

Virtualization Acceleration

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Virtualization Acceleration is Next

Management

Efficiency

Acceleration

1st Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generation

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Server Virtualization Network Virtualization Storage Virtualization

1GbE 10GbE 40GbE 100GbE VMDirectPath, SR-IOV Offloads: Network Protocols, VXLAN

On Dashboard for Compute and Storage Software Defined Network Software Defined Storage

Storage & Mobilit

y

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IO Acceleration

TCP/IP Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)

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RDMA over Converged Ethernet - RoCE

RDMA transport over Ethernet• Efficient, light-weight transport, layered directly over Ethernet• Takes advantage of PFC (Priority Flow Control) in DCB Ethernet • IBTA standard • Supported in OFED 1.5.1, RHEL 6.X, Windows Server 2012 R2

Lowest latency in the Ethernet industry• 1.3µs end-to-end RDMA latency

- Faster application completion- Better server utilization- Higher scalability

Tremendous support momentum by ecosystem• Cloud service providers, DB Vendors, Financial ISVs, Server &

Storage OEMs• Entire Ethernet management ecosystem is available

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vMotion over RoCE Accelerates vMotion

TCP/IP RDMA0

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Destination CPU utilization 92% lower Source CPU utilization 84% lower

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*Source: VMware’s CTO office VMworld 2012http://cto.vmware.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/RDMAonvSphere.pdf

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10X Boost of Live Migration over Hyper-V with SMB Direct

Source: TechED’13 Opening Satya Nadella Keynote Session with Jose Baretto

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* Lower is better

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TCP/IP Compression SMB/RDMA

Normalized Send BandwidthHigher is better

% CPU #1Lower is better

% CPU #2Lower is better

150Gb/sec across 3 links

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Virtualized Storage Acceleration Running iSER* over ESXi

10x Bandwidth Performance Advantage vs TCP/IP2.5x IOPS Performance With iSER Initiator

Test Setup: ESXi 5.0, 2 VMs, 2 LUNS per VM

RDMA Superior Across the Board• Throughput & IOP’s• Efficiency & CPU Utilization• Scalability

* iSCSI over RDMA

Higher isBetter

Higher isBetter

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vSphere Storage Access Acceleration over RoCE running iSER

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw7UHWWAtig

Dell Fluid Cache for SAN

Boost Performance with Server-based Caching over RoCE

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RDMA eliminates storage bottlenecks in VDI deployments• Mellanox ConnectX®-3 with RoCE accelerates the access to cache over RDMA• 150 Virtual desktops over RoCE vs. 60 virtual desktops over TCP/IP

Maximize VDI Efficiency over RDMA

ConnectXiSCSI using RDMA

Nytro MegaRAIDFlash Cache

ConnectXiSCSI using RDMA

Nytro MegaRAIDFlash Cache

Active Active

http://www.mellanox.com/related-docs/whitepapers/SB_Virtual_Desktop_Infrastructure_Storage_Acceleration_Final.pdf

Intel 10GbE, iSCSI/TCP

ConnectX3 10GbE, iSCSI/RDMA (iSER)

ConnectX3 40GbE, iSCSI/RDMA (iSER)

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Number of Virtual Desktop VMs

iSER Enables 2X More Virtual Desktops

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Proven Deployment Over Azure

“To make storage cheaper we use lots more network! How do we make Azure Storage scale? RoCE (RDMA over Ethernet) enabled at 40GbE for Windows Azure Storage, achieving massive COGS savings”

RDMA at 40GbE Enables Massive Cloud Saving for Microsoft Azure

Microsoft KeynoteAlbert Greenberg

SDN in Azure Infrastructure

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Microsoft Keynote at Open Networking Summit 2014 on RDMA

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Mellanox Accelerates OpenStack Storage

RDMA Accelerates iSCSI Storage

Hypervisor (KVM)

OSVM

OSVM

OSVM

Adapter

Open-iSCSI w iSER

Compute Servers

Switching Fabric

iSCSI/iSER Target (tgt)

Adapter Local Disks

RDMA Cache

Storage Servers

OpenStack (Cinder)

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>4X Faster

* iSER patches are available on OpenStack branch:  https://github.com/mellanox/openstack

Built-in OpenStack Components/Management & Cinder/iSER to Accelerate Storage Access

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Leadership in Strategic Markets with an End to End Portfolio

Host/Fabric SoftwareICs Switches/GatewaysAdapter Cards Cables/Modules

End-to-End - Cloud, Enterprise, and Storage Optimized - InfiniBand and Ethernet Portfolio

Metro / WAN

DB/Enterprise Cloud Web 2.0StorageBig Data

Thank You