PLUMgrid and Mellanox Announce Performance Benchmarking Results
PLUMgrid and Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. announced performance benchmarking results from the PLUMgrid IO Visor and Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro integration. The combined solution delivers an industry-leading traffic processing rate of 40 Gbps per server.
The benchmarking results show that the PLUMgrid IO Visor and Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro integration resolves the longstanding performance and CPU utilization bottlenecks in cloud overlay networks. The tests demonstrated the ability to scale PLUMgrid's Virtual Domains and their distributed network functions on top of a VXLAN-based overlay with the hardware assist capabilities of Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro. The combined solution provides the advanced networking features, performance, scalability and flexibility needed for today's private and public clouds.
"PLUMgrid and Mellanox teamed up to deliver the fastest cloud networking solution to enable customers to build rich, fast, efficient and scalable OpenStack solutions," said Pere Monclus, Co-Founder and CTO, PLUMgrid. "It is the architecture of choice, combining rich, scalable on-demand multi-tenant network services from PLUMgrid with powerful hardware acceleration from Mellanox. The result is the lowest CPU utilization and highest throughput in the industry for large-scale public and private clouds."
The PLUMgrid OpenStack Networking Suite is a secure virtual networking product for large-scale OpenStack clouds. Built using PLUMgrid Platform and IO Visor technology, it provides a simple-to-deploy and easy-to-use solution to build cloud infrastructure at scale to offer secure, multi-tenant network services to OpenStack cloud users. Based on a highly automated workflow, the PLUMgrid OpenStack Networking Suite enables applications and users to deploy private Virtual Domains in seconds without changing the physical network fabric.
Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro is the industry's first network adapter IC and card with hardware offload engines that support virtualized overlay networks commonly used in cloud infrastructures. Featuring hardware offload support for VXLAN and NVGRE, ConnectX-3 Pro enables cloud providers to build large-scale infrastructures with industry-leading performance and dramatically lower CPU overhead, thus reducing cloud application cost and increasing cloud ROI.
"A key benefit of overlay networks is the potential to improve efficiency and reduce the cost to deploy and manage virtual machines," said Kevin Deierling, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. "However, careful consideration of hardware and software virtualization infrastructure is required to realize this potential, without adversely affecting application performance. The combination of Mellanox's overlay network offload engines on the ConnectX-3 Pro card and PLUMgrid IO Visor allows IT organizations to rapidly deploy public and private clouds at scale, while delivering four times the throughput with virtually no impact to CPU utilization."
