Data Center Cost & Power: The Adverse Effects of Moore's Law Slowing Down
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March 2016
Data Center Cost
and Power
The adverse effects of
Moore’s Law slowing down.
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SDN’s Growing Pains
▶ Data center operators cannot economically scale their server-based networking
▶ Software-defined, open networking is evolving but limited to hardware refresh
▶ Server-based networking consumes vast CPU resources, starving applications
Limited Scalability Slower Innovation Higher Costs
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Open Stack
Neutron
OVS ML2
Agilio™ OVS Implementation
Compute Node
VM VM VMVM. . .OpenStack
Nova Agent
OVSDB
OpenFlow
Linux Kernel
Agilio-CX OVS Datapath
Actions
Match
Tables
Open Stack
Nova
Open Daylight
Controller
(ODL)
Tunnels
Deliver to Host
Update Statistics
Seamless Integration
with Control Plane
Open Stack
Ready
Transparent
Offload
SR-IOV
Connectivity
to VMs
ovs-vswitchd
ovs-dbserver
OVS Datapath
Actions
Match
Tables
Tunnels
https://www.netronome.com/media/redac
tor_files/WP_Agilio_SW.pdf
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Agilio™ OVS Implementation
Compute Node
. . .
Linux Kernel
Agilio-CX
OVS Datapath
Tunnels
Deliver to Host
Update Statistics
Transparent
Offload
SR-IOV
Connectivity
to VMs
OVS Datapath
Actions
Match
Tables
Tunnels
ActionsMatch Tables
VM
VM
VM
VM
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Server CPU Core Allocations
• 12 CPU Cores Dedicated to OVS
• 12 CPU Cores for Application
• 1 CPU Core Dedicated to OVS
• 23 CPU Cores for Application
Software (Kernel and User) OVS
Agilio OVS
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Per Server CPU Core Efficiency
Throughput with single Server CPU Core
MillionPacketPerSecond
• 50X Efficiency Gain vs. Kernel OVS
• 20X Efficiency Gain vs. User OVS
https://www.netronome.com/media/redactor_files/WP_OVS_Benchmarking.pdf
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Power and Cost Savings with Agilio-CX
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Unleash Higher Cloud Services Revenue
Agilio™
Server
Networking
Platform