OpenStack Cloud Networking

OpenStack cloud orchestration promises scalable, cost-effective private/hybrid clouds. However, OpenStack networking using Open vSwitch or Contrail vRouter Software imposes a significant CPU consumption and VM performance tax.

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OpenStack networking using Neutron with the Open vSwitch (OVS) plug-in is the most used cloud network setup in production. Agilio® SmartNICs with Agilio software provide complete integration with OpenStack, preserving all automation features for VM provisioning, startup and shutdown while accelerating networking and security features as well as data delivery to VMs. Networking services are enabled with significant acceleration, freeing up CPU cores to improve server productivity and extending the applicability of hardware-accelerated OpenStack networking to a significantly larger set of cloud, NFV and SDN-based applications.

Architecture

Agilio SmartNICs with Agilio software implement the entire compute node networking datapath in hardware. Packets are delivered to VMs using SR-IOV, DPDK and Express Virtio (XVIO). The Netronome solution enables OpenStack to preserve automation of VM provisioning, startup, and shutdown while accelerating sophisticated networking and security services to VMs.

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“Virtual switches have become an integral part of data center networking, however performance becomes a significant impediment at 10Gb/s and higher data rates. Netronome Agilio CX SmartNICs save significant CPU cycles while improving performance for server-based networking features such as virtual tunnel end points and policies per VM or tenant, enabling higher service levels at lower cost.”

- Chen Li, SDN Project Manager at China Mobile

“Ericsson’s Cloud SDN Platform based on OpenDaylight, leverages open source technologies such as Open vSwitch and OpenStack to provide a flexible and scalable networking framework for deploying IT and NFV services. Integration of the Netronome Agilio SmartNIC and software solution into the Ericsson Cloud SDN solution results in up to five times more output per server rack, helping lower overall dollar per compute resource in the data center infrastructure.”

- Elena Romero, Head of Product Line SDN & Policy Control at Ericsson

“Programmable networking data path implementation in hardware can enable differentiated performance and service levels on a per NFV application or per customer basis. The P4 data path programming language, as supported by Netronome’s Agilio CX SmartNICs and related development tools, is simple and hardware agnostic, allowing for rapid and future-proofed networking datapath innovation.”

- Elena Romero, Head of Product Line SDN & Policy Control at Ericsson

“The Juniper Networks Contrail vRouter, one of the key components of the Contrail SDN solution, is ideal for orchestrating and automating cloud networks. The Contrail vRouter and its ability to provide highly scalable secure virtual networks, combined with SmartNICs such as Netronome’s Agilio CX, allows the acceleration of a broad set of networking functions and the ability to evolve rapidly with changing needs.”

- Ankur Singla, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Software at Juniper Networks

“Mirantis’ customers run production workloads that often challenge performance and capacity limits of software-defined networking technologies. We are therefore excited to offer cutting-edge options for network acceleration to our customers. The solution from Netronome increases capacity and efficiency in private and on- premise clouds, enabling performance that was previously only possible with more expensive dedicated hardware-based solutions.”

- Rikard Kjellberg, vice president product technology group at Mirantis

“Netronome’s Agilio SmartNICs provide an excellent platform to showcase Tieto’s expertise in NFV solutions. The Tieto and Netronome collaboration has demonstrated a 5X performance improvement over conventional solutions for virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) while preserving the benefits of virtualization on COTS hardware.”

- Nicholas Hamblin, Head of Cloud and IP Business Unit at Tieto

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