I n te l ® R a c k S c a l e D e s i g n : A D e e p e r P e r s p e c t i v e o n S o f t w a r e M a n a g e a b i l i t y f o r t h e O p e n C o m p u t e P r o j e c t C o m m u n i t y

MohanJ.KumarIntelFellow

Agenda

• RackScaleDesign(RSD)Overview

• ManageabilityforRSD

• RackScaleDesignFutureConsiderations

• Summary

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SimplifiedPlatformManagement

Disaggregate

Pool&Compose

Intel® Rack Scale DesignLogicalarchitectureforefficientlybuildingandmanagingcloudinfrastructure—andprovidingthesimplestpathtoasoftwaredefineddatacenter.

ü User-DefinedPerformance

ü MaximumUtilization

ü InteroperableSolutions

IncreaseperformanceperTCO$&acceleratecloudadoption

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Intel® RSD Design FrameworkPod-wideManagement

Scalability

v

Podwidestorage Networkfabric

• OpenLogicalReferenceArchitecture• Modularscalablemanagementarchitecture• ComprehendsHardware,FirmwareandManagementSoftware• ComplianceandInteropprogramintheworks

SimplifiedPlatformManagement

ResourcePooling

NewMemory/StorageHierarchies,newTechnologies

Today Tomorrow Future

Effic

ienc

y, A

gilit

y, O

ptim

ized

MaximizeresourceutilizationReduceTCO

SolvetheStorageBottleneck HeterogeneousComposition

NewEraofAgility

Evolution of Rack Scale Design

Manageab i l i t y fo r RSD

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RSD Management Software Framework

• Asset&locationdiscovery

• Disaggregatedresourcemanagement

• Composablesystemsupport

• Supportcompute,network,andstorage

• BuiltusingDMTF†Redfish™

Comprehensivemanagementarchitecture

NetworkSwitch

RSDAPI

RSDPodManagementAPI

RSD Pod ManagerDiscovery/Composition/Configuration/Telemetry

* *

RSD Manageability Standards• Intel®RackScaleDesignmanageabilityinterfacesarebasedonRedfish™

• PodManager(PODM)API• RackManager(RMM)API• PooledSystemManager(PSME)API

• Redfish™hastwoparts• Interfacespecification(HTTP,JSON,OData)• Resourcemodelsformanageability

• ManageabilityModels• DMTF– physicalplatform,compute• SNIA– networkedstorageandStorageService(Swordfish)• IETF– networkdevicesandservices(YANG-to-Redfish)

Pooled System

Manager

Pod Manager

PODM API

PSME API

Rack Manager

RMM API

Orchestrator

Intel® RSD and OCP• RackScaleandOCPdirectionsarewellaligned

• OCPhardwarecanbemanagedusingRackScaleManagementAPI

• OCPhardwarewithRSDsupportavailablefromRSDpartners

Orchestration Software

RSD Pod Manager

OCP Building Block

Server Storage Network

RSDAPI

RSDAPI

RSD Future Cons idera t ions

Intel® RSD Telemetry Overview OrchestrationStacks

RSDPodManager

• SupportInband andOut-of-band(OOB)telemetry

• BuiltusingRedfishextensionsforTelemetry

• FeedrelevantRSDtelemetrytoanalyticsatOrchestrationlayer

• Comprehendspower,performance,security,thermal,utilizationandlocation

• HierarchicalmetriccollectionandrepresentationineventsandAPIs

Resource Pools

RSD In band Telemetry AgentPSME

PSMEPSME

RMMRMM

RMM

OutofBandTelemetry InBandTelemetry

Intel® RSD Telemetry Flow

RSDInband Telemetry

RSDOut-of-bandTelemetry

RSDPodManager

OrchestratorWorkload

PlacementandResourceallocation

RSDPodManagerre-provisionsHWandsystemresources

AnalyticsREPORTING

CONTROL

RSDPod

Intel® RSD Pooled NVM Express* Controller • BuildsonthemomentumofNVMExpress

overFabric*(NVMe-oF*)• EnabledisaggregationofPCIeNVMe*

devices• Supporthigherradixpooling• AssignstoragetoComputeorStoragenodes

basedonworkloaddemand• Intel®RSDcomplementsNVMe-oF*by

• SupportingdiscoveryandmanagementofmanageNVMe-oF*devices.

• Enablesadd/removalofNVMe*devices/subsystemstoahost

• Improvedsecuritybyseparationofin-bandandmanagementnetworks

• AllowsQoS policiesacrosscomposedNVMe*devices

PNC

…

…

Managementlink

ServerNode1

PSME

ServerNode2

ServerNoden

Drive1 Drive2 Driven

Ethernet

PSME– PooledSystemManagementEnginePNC– PooledNVMExpressController

Intel® Rack Scale Pooled NVM Express* Controller - Example

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Server Node1 Server Node2 Server Node3

NVMeSSD 1

NVMeSSD 2

PNC1

NVMeSSD 3

NVMeSSD 4

PNC2

BindServerNode1,SSD1BindServerNode2,SSD2

BindServerNode2,SSD3BindServerNode3,SSD4

Bind

PNC

1,SSD

1

BindPNC1,SSD2BindPNC2,SSD3

BindPNC2,SSD4

NVMeSSD 1

NVMeSSD 2

NVMeSSD 3

NVMeSSD 4

RSD Pod Manager

• Intel®RackScaleDesignpooledsystemsmanagementengineconfiguresNVMe overEthernetTargets

• Intel®RackScaleDesignPodmanagercomposestherequiredplatformbybindingNVMe targetstohosts

• PodmanagerhandlesQOStotheNVMe overEthernettraffic

• Podmangermonitorsdrivehealth

Composable Power using RSD

Rack1 Rack2

Server2 Server4

Server1 Server3

FeedA

FeedB

Server1– DualFeedServer2-4– SingleFeed

Rack1 Rack2

Server2 Server4

Server1 Server3

FeedA

FeedB

Server1,2,4– SingleFeedServer3– DualFeed

RSDComposition

Summar y

Summary

• RackScaleandOCPdirectionsarewellaligned

• OCPhardwarecanbemanagedusingRackScaleManagementAPI

• RackScaleFirmware/Softwarereferenceavailableonline-http://www.intel.com/IntelRSD

VisittheIntelbooth(A5)tolearnmoreandseetheIntel®RackScaleDesigndemo.

Intel® Rack Scale Design Aligned EcosystemCommonmanagementframeworkandtelemetrysupportsecosystempartnerrequirementstodeveloparangeofplatformsandsolutions

OEMs/ODMs/TEMs*

ISVs/OSVs*

Industryinitiatives/Standards*

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