About PlumGrid:
PlumGrid and Mellanox published a new white paper about creating a better network infrastructure for a large-scale OpenStack cloud by using Mellanox’s ConnectX-3 Pro VXLAN HW offload.
The PlumGrid VNI (Virtual Network Infrastructure) running over Mellanox switches and ConnectX-3 Pro adapters is a unique offering targeted for large-scale data centers.
With the ConnectX-3 Pro stateless HW offload, users can achieve:
- Linear improvement in VM performance until reaching the near line rate performance (36 Gbps with eight VM pairs generating traffic at maximum rates).
- CPU utilization remains virtually constant on both TX and RX ends, while the throughput grows to 36 Gbps.
The white paper is available from Plumgrid website page: http://www.plumgrid.com/wp-content/uploads/documents/PLUMgrid_Mellanox_WP.pdf
PlumGrid VNI 3.0 is a software networking product for large-scale OpenStack Clouds, it provides a network fabric-agnostic, turn-key solution to build a scalable cloud infrastructure and offer advanced, on-demand network services to cloud tenants. To find out more http://www.plumgrid.com/product/overview/