Mellanox Overlay Networks Solutions

Motti Beck – Director, Enterprise Market Development

VMworld 2013 San Francisco

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Leading Supplier of End-to-End Interconnect Solutions

Virtual Protocol Interconnect

Storage Front / Back-End

Server / Compute Switch / Gateway

56G IB & FCoIB 56G InfiniBand

10/40/56GbE & FCoE 10/40/56GbE

Virtual Protocol Interconnect

Host/Fabric Software ICs Switches/Gateways Adapter Cards Cables

Comprehensive End-to-End InfiniBand and Ethernet Portfolio

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From Cloud 1.0 to Cloud 2.0

Cloud 2.0

Virtualization

Private Clouds Small Scale Clouds

Fixed Resource

Allocation

Cloud 1.0

Private Clouds Unlimited Scale

Unlimited Tenants

Mobility

Resources Everywhere

Serviceability

Any Service, Any Time

Cloud. No Limits!

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Underlying Technologies Enabling Cloud 2.0

Cloud 2.0

Virtualization

Private Clouds

Cloud 1.0

Private Clouds

Overlay Networks

VXLAN, NVGRE

Interconnect

Offload Engines

Reduce Application Cost

Unlimited Scale

Unlimited Tenants

Mobility

Resources Everywhere

Serviceability

Any Service, Any Time

Small Scale Clouds

Fixed Resource

Allocation

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Cloud 2.0 Technologies – Overlay Networks

Challenge: Number of VLANs limits cloud scalability, resource mobility and isolation within the cloud

Solution: NVGRE or VXLAN for “floating” virtual domains on top of a data center interconnect

Benefit: Application can run anywhere, and receive real time resources exactly as needed

Picture Source: VMware

Virtualization-Aware

Interconnect

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Physical Switch

Overlay Networks

Overlay Networks provide a method for “creating” virtual domains

• Enable large scale multi-tenant isolation

Large cloud environments have adopted emerging Overlay Network protocols

• VXLAN and NVGRE

Currently available NICs do not support Overlay Network hardware offload engines

• Performance is limited

• CPU overhead is high

• Number of tenants is not scalable / limited

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Introducing ConnectX-3 Pro

A new addition to the ConnectX-3 network adapter family

• Targeting cloud computing environments

Provides HW offload engines for Overlay Network protocols

• Support for VXLAN and NVGRE

• Reduces CPU overhead

ConnectX-3 Pro is HW and SW compatible with ConnectX-3

• Drop replacement

• Stable and field proven SW stack

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NVGRE with ConnectX-3 ProOffloads

NVGRE Without Offloads

Throughput (Gb/s)

Initial Performance Results With ConnectX-3 Pro 10GbE*

Higher

Is Better

65%

Higher Throughput for Less CPU Overhead

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80%

*Based on NVGRE

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ConnectX-3 Pro Leads the Way to Cloud 2.0

Overlay Network protocols are being adopted to address evolving cloud challenges

• Enable large-scale, multi-tenant clouds

• Provide tenant isolation

ConnectX-3 Pro is the world’s first hardware-based Overlay Network offload adapter

• No performance compromise

• Reduced CPU overhead

Enables cloud growth with a virtually unlimited number of tenants

ConnectX-3 Pro Enables Large Scale, Multi-Tenant Cloud Deployments

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Cloud computing is growing at an astonishing rate

• Worldwide spending is expected to reach over $100B in 2014*

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is the fastest growing segment of public clouds

• 45% CAGR in 2012**

IaaS hosts multiple tenants sharing the same resources and infrastructure

• Large public clouds can reach thousands of tenants

• Introducing new scale, performance and isolation challenges

* Source: Wall Street Journal, January 31 2013

** Source: Gartner Inc.

Public Cloud Growth and Challenges