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- 2. NOTICES AND DISCLAIMERS Intel technologies’ features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software or service activation. Performance varies depending on system configuration. No product or component can be absolutely secure. Tests document performance of components on a particular test, in specific systems. Differences in hardware, software, or configuration will affect actual performance. For more complete information about performance and benchmark results, visit http://www.intel.com/benchmarks . Software and workloads used in performance tests may have been optimized for performance only on Intel microprocessors. Performance tests, such as SYSmark and MobileMark, are measured using specific computer systems, components, software, operations and functions. Any change to any of those factors may cause the results to vary. You should consult other information and performance tests to assist you in fully evaluating your contemplated purchases, including the performance of that product when combined with other products. For more complete information visit http://www.intel.com/benchmarks . Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX)* provides higher throughput to certain processor operations. Due to varying processor power characteristics, utilizing AVX instructions may cause a) some parts to operate at less than the rated frequency and b) some parts with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 to not achieve any or maximum turbo frequencies. Performance varies depending on hardware, software, and system configuration and you can learn more at http://www.intel.com/go/turbo. Intel's compilers may or may not optimize to the same degree for non-Intel microprocessors for optimizations that are not unique to Intel microprocessors. These optimizations include SSE2, SSE3, and SSSE3 instruction sets and other optimizations. Intel does not guarantee the availability, functionality, or effectiveness of any optimization on microprocessors not manufactured by Intel. Microprocessor-dependent optimizations in this product are intended for use with Intel microprocessors. Certain optimizations not specific to Intel microarchitecture are reserved for Intel microprocessors. Please refer to the applicable product User and Reference Guides for more information regarding the specific instruction sets covered by this notice. Notice Revision #20110804. Cost reduction scenarios described are intended as examples of how a given Intel-based product, in the specified circumstances and configurations, may affect future costs and provide cost savings. Circumstances will vary. Intel does not guarantee any costs or cost reduction. Intel does not control or audit third-party benchmark data or the web sites referenced in this document. You should visit the referenced web site and confirm whether referenced data are accurate. Intel, the Intel logo, and Intel Xeon are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as property of others. © 2018 Intel Corporation. 2
- 3. ENABLING END-TO-END NETWORK TRANSFORMATION INTEL® ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGIES ACROSS THE NETWORK, FROM DEVICE TO CLOUD VIRTUALIZED, SOFTWARE-DEFINED, CLOUD-OPTIMIZED AND 5G READY SMART DEVICES RADIO ACCESS TECHNOLOGY EDGE NETWORK CORE NETWORK CLOUD EVOLVING THE NETWORK TO SUPPORT FAST-CHANGING BUSINESS REQUIREMENT 3
- 4. HOLISTIC SUPPORT FOR NETWORK TRANSFORMATION *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. NECESSARY COMPLEMENTS TO ADVANCING ARCHITECTURAL TRANSITIONS Invest OPEN SOURCE AND STANDARDS IndustryCollaborate INTEL® NETWORK BUILDERS NETWORK FUNCTIONS VIRTUALIZATION INFRASTRUCTURE UNIVERSAL CUSTOMER PREMISES EQUIPMENT NFVi uCPE 82+POCs/Trials/Deployments Based on Member Solutions 12K+Network Builder University Program Members 38+Network Edge Ecosystem Program Members 360+Members 30+Comms SPs 4 DELIVERY NETWORKS Visual Cloud Simplify O P E N N E S S
- 5. NETWORK TRANSFORMATION TO SUPPORT BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION: THE NFVI CHALLENGE Customers want to virtualize the network to gain… FLEXIBILITY AGILITY SCALE But it can be challenging with… UNPREDICTABILITY INTER- OPERABILITY COMPLEXITY For various NFVi workloads to meet objectives and gain advantage BALANCING ACT OBJECTIVES ADVANTAGES Cloud Native and DevOps for Core to Edge Digital Transformation of Networks Scale Up and Down Rapidly High Resilience and Availability Enable New Revenue Streams Rapid Innovation & Improved Customer Experiences 5
- 6. INTEL® SELECT SOLUTION REFERENCE DESIGN METHODOLOGY BASED ON NFVI BKC WORKLOAD GUESTS OS, VMM ACCELERATORS NIC CPU, CHIPSET BIOS, BMC, OOB NIC DATA STORAGE BASE CONFIGURATIONS Optimized for mainstream price performance NFVi Validation process results in optimized configurations PLUS CONFIGURATIONS Optimized for high workload density and performance CONTROLLER NODE CONFIGURATIONS Optimized for controller workloads in cloud infrastructure 6
- 7. THE PROCESS BEHIND AN OPTIMIZED AND WELL-ENGINEERED FOUNDATION DEFINING THE BEST-KNOWN CONFIGURATION (BKC) PROCESS RESULTS ENSURE CONSISTENCY AND STABILITY TO SIMPLIFY EVALUATION, ORDERING AND DEPLOYMENT TYPICAL PLATFORM Microcode Updates SPS Firmware UEFI Firmware Management Control LAN Drivers NVMe Drivers QAT Drivers DPDK… TPM Module Add-in storage Add-in NIC Add-in Coprocessor PCIe* Ethernet Switch … SOFTWAREHARDWARE FULLY TESTED SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE PLATFORM SW INTEGRATED AND TESTED OUTPUT BKC TEST AND VALIDATION PROCESS Daily Build Silver Config. Gold Config. BKC Config. BKC Releases [Binaries + Reports] Increasingtestcoverage Optimized, Validated Configuration with Deterministic KPI ResultsHardware aligned to CommSP server specification 7 *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
- 8. FAST. EASY. OPTIMIZED. Workload-optimized solution configurations designed to accelerate infrastructure deployment for a more efficient and future-ready data center. Simplified evaluation Workload optimized Fast&easy todeploy Eliminates guesswork through tightly specified hardware and software components Smooth deployment with pre- defined settings and system- wide tuning Designed and benchmarked for specific workloads to deliver optimal performance INTEL® SELECT SOLUTIONS SIMPLIFY AND ACCELERATE DEPLOYMENT OF WORKLOAD-OPTIMIZED INFRASTRUCTURE 8
- 9. INTEL® SELECT SOLUTION FOR NFVI – REDUCING THE COMPLEXITY OF NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION Customers want to virtualize the network to gain… But it can be challenging with… INTEL® SELECT SOLUTION FOR NFVI INTEL® SELECT SOLUTION FOR NFVI: Standard high-volume servers Tested configurations of leading software and system components Designed to deliver consistent performance for NFVi & real network workloads ADDRESSES THESE CHALLENGES: EASES INTEROPERABILITY, GAINS STABILITY AND SPEEDS DEPLOYMENT FusionSphere FLEXIBILITY AGILITY SCALE UNPREDICTABILITY INTER- OPERABILITY COMPLEXITY 9 *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
- 10. Ingredient Controller Node Requirement Cloud Node Base Requirement Cloud Node Plus Requirement CPU Intel® Xeon® Gold 5218 CPU @ 2.1GHz or 5218N CPU @ 2.3GHz / 16C/32T, 105W or higher number Gold/Platinum CPU SKU Intel® Xeon® Gold 6230 CPU @ 2.1GHz or 6230N CPU @ 2.3GHz, 20C/40T, 125W or higher Intel® Xeon® Gold 6252 CPU @ 2.1GHz, 24C/48T, 150W or higher Memory 192GB – Required 2667MHz 384GB – Recommended 384GB - Required 384GB – Required Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory Not Required 2-1-1 Topology 128 GB DIMM 2LM mode(512GB Total) - Recommended 2-2-1- 128GB 2LM mode topology – Recommended 2-2-2- 128GB 2LM mode topology – Recommended NIC 2 x 25GbE Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 2 x 10GbE Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter X710 2 x Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-DA2 2 x 25GbE Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 2 x 10GbE Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter X710 2 x Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-DA2 2 x 25GbE Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 2 x 40GbE Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XL710 LOM Required Required Required Intel® QAT Recommended Required1 Required Storage Required Required 2 x Intel® NVMe P4510 Series 2.0TB each Drive recommended NUMA aligned - Required Required 4 x Intel® NVMe P4510 Series 2.0TB each Drive recommended NUMA aligned – Required INTEL® SELECT SOLUTION FOR NFVI – V2- REFERENCE DESIGN SPEC… 1Intel® QAT is required for Intel Select Technical Verification. It is not required to ship with the server for workloads that do not require crypto or compression acceleration HARDWARE BOM 10 Cloud Node Cloud Node Cloud Node Cloud (NFVi)Controller (NFVi)
- 11. Operating System, Software and Drivers Canonical Ubuntu* Red Hat Enterprise Linux* Host OS Ubuntu* 18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver) 4.15.0-46-generic 7.6 kernel 3.10.0-933.el7.x86_64 Libvirt 4.4.0 4.5.01 QEMU 2.11.1 2.12.01 QAT L.4.4 L.4.4 CollectD 5.82 5.81 NVMe 1.0 1.0 DPDK2 18.11 18.11 i40e 2.1.14-k 2.3.2-k i40evf 3.0.1-k 3.2.2-k ixgbe 5.1.0-k 5.1.0-k-rh7.6 ixgbevf 4.1.0-k 4.1.0-k-rh7.6 BIOS Enable/Disable BIOS Profile Max Performance Uncore Frequency Scaling Disable Platform Technologies Enable/Disable Intel® VT Intel CPU VMX Support Enable Intel IO Virtualization Enable Intel Boot Guard Intel Boot Guard Enable for Base Enable3 for Plus Intel® TXT Intel® Trusted Execution Technology Enable3 INTEL® SELECT SOLUTION FOR NFVI – V2- REFERENCE DESIGN SPEC. 1Available as part of Red Hat OpenStack Version 13 2Available as extra packages 3Recommended *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. SOFTWARE STACK BIOS PLATFORM TECHNOLOGIES 11
- 12. KEY BENCHMARK REQUIREMENTS 1Performance to be measured at 8 KB packet size 2Performance to be measured at 4 KB packet size 3Performance to be measured at 2 KB packet size ¥The XL710 is a 40 GbE controller. The 2 x 40 GbE adapter using this controller is not intended to be a 2 x 40 GbE but a 1 x 40 GbE with an active back-up port. When attempting to use line-rate traffic involving both ports, the internal switch is saturated and the combined bandwidth between the two ports are limited to a total of 50 Gb/s. KEY KPI TARGETS BASE CONFIGURATION PLUS CONFIGURATION CRITERIA QAT Performance Compression (Compress and Verify) throughput1 24 Gbps 50 Gb/s Performance benchmarks to be met or exceeded for being verified as an Intel® Select Solution for NFVI Solution Encryption throughput2 40 Gb/s 100 Gb/s RSA throughput3 40 K Ops/s 100 K Ops/s OpenSSL Performance3 (PKE operation with 1 thread) Software 1 thread 1K signs/s 1K signs/s Utilizing Intel® QAT 100 K signs/s 100 K signs/s OpenSSL Performance (AES128-CBC-HMAC-SHA1 operation with 8 threads with 16KB Packet Size ) Utilizing Intel® QAT 40 Gbps 100 Gbps Packet Processing Performance using DPDK L3fwd RFC2544 zero packet loss test 2 x Dual Port 10 GbE 90% Line Rate with Packet Size 256B NA 2 x Dual Port 25 GbE 90% Line Rate with Packet Size 256B 90% Line Rate with Packet Size 256B 2 x Dual Port 40 GbE NA 60% Line Rate with Packet Size 256B¥ NGINX Stack with OpenSSL 1.1.0 (PKE operations) HTTPS CPS throughput (Software 16 threads) 12000 CPS NA HTTPS CPS throughput (Utilizing QAT Engine) 75000 CPS 80000 CPS HAproxy Number of Requests per second with QAT over Number Requests per second without QAT 300% 300% 12
- 13. Intel® Select Solutions for uCPE delivers: • Standard SoC, single socket servers • Tested configurations of leading software and system components • Designed to deliver consistent performance for SD-WAN, uCPE & network edge workloads INTEL® SELECT SOLUTIONS FOR UCPE - REDUCING THE COMPLEXITY OF NETWORK EDGE VIRTUALIZATION 13*Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. CoSP Network Edge Requirements AGILITY SECURITY CONSISTENCY SCALE But There are Challenges with Increased… BUSINESS MODELS SERVICES APPLICATIONS DEVICES USERS THREATS COMPLEXITIES
- 14. Ingredient Base Plus CPU Intel® Xeon® D-2123IT processor, 4 core, 2.2 GHz, 60 W, or higher SKU Intel Xeon D-2177NT processor, 14 core, 1.9 GHz, 105 W, or higher SKU DRAM memory 16 GB DDR4 2133 MHz, 4 * 4 GB (16 GB Total) Minimum all 4 memory channels populated (1 DPC) to achieve 16 GB (i.e., 4 * 4 GB RDIMM) 64 GB DDR4 2667 MHz, 4 * 16 GB (64 GB Total) Minimum all 4 memory channels populated (1 DPC) to achieve 64 GB (i.e., 4 * 16 GB RDIMM) NICs 2 x 10 GbE integrated Ethernet ports 4 x 10 GbE integrated Ethernet ports Intel® QuickAssist Technology Integrated Intel® QAT or Intel® Quick Assist 8970 PCIe* add-in card or equivalent third party Intel® C62x Series Chipset QAT Enabled PCIe* add-in card Integrated Intel® QAT or Intel® Quick Assist 8970 PCIe* add-in card or equivalent third party Intel® C627 Series Chipset QAT Enabled PCIe* add-in card Storage Intel® SSD Data Center S3110 256 GB 2.5" internal solid state drive (SATA or M.2) Intel® SSD Data Center S3110 512 GB 2.5" internal solid state drive (SATA or M.2) INTEL® SELECT SOLUTION FOR UCPE BASE & PLUS CONFIGURATIONS HARDWARE BOM 14
- 15. KEY BENCHMARK REQUIREMENTS 15 100% Line Rate with 128B Packet Size 2x10Gbps L3fwd with RFC2544 for Base# 4x10Gbps L3fwd with RFC2544 for Plus# with integrated Intel NIC Compression & Encryption 20Gb/s for Base 100Gb/s for Plus RSA 20K ops/s for Base 100K ops/s for Plus AES128-CBC-HMAC-SHA1 20Gb/s for Base# 100Gb/s for Plus# RSA 2048 20K sign/s for Base 100K sign/s for Plus Intel Select Solution Ensures Best Performance and Optimum Usage of Intel Technologies # Intel Select Solution has 2 Options: Base and Plus, see slide for details Intel® QATOpenSSLDPDK
- 16. TRANSFORMATION OF CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORKS (CDNS) OPTIMIZE AND SCALE INFRASTRUCTURE TO MEET METEORIC RISE IN VIDEO DISTRIBUTION ACCELERATE THE ECOSYSTEM WITH OPEN SOFTWARE AND CDN OPTIMIZATIONS AND TESTING Management and Orchestrator CDN vCDN vCDN Hypervisor Intel® Select Solution for CDN: Workload-optimized, verified implementation from trusted vendors Benefits: Simplifies CDN procurement, validation, and deployment Accelerate time-to-market AbstractionAutomation Cloudification Next Step: Open, Cloud-based CDN NFV – Virtualized CDN Appliance CDN vCDN vCDN Hypervisor Bare Metal – Standard CDN – Proprietary Service 16
- 17. Ingredient Base Plus CPU Intel® Xeon® Gold 6230 CPU @ 2.1GHz or 6230N CPU @ 2.3 GHz 20C/40T or higher number Gold/Platinum SKU Intel® Xeon® Gold 6252 CPU @ 2.1 GHz or 6252N CPU @ 2.3 GHz, 24C/48T or higher number Gold/Platinum SKU DRAM memory Option 1: 384 GB (12 x 32 GB DDR4 2666 MHz) Option 2: 192 GB (12 x 16 GB DDR4 2666 MHz) Option 1: 384 GB (12 x 32 GB DDR4 2666 MHz) Option 2: 192 GB (12 x 16 GB DDR4 2666 MHz) Option 3: 384 GB (12 x 32 GB DDR4 2666 MHz) Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory Option 1: none Option 2: 512 GB (4 x 128 GB in 2-1-1 topology) Option 1: 1.0 TB (8 x 128 GB in 2-2-1 topology) Option 2: 1.5 TB (12 x 128 GB in 2-2-2 topology) Option 3: none Intel® Optane™ DC solid state drive n/a Option 1: none Option 2: none Option 3: 2x P4800x 750 GB NUMA aligned NVMe SSDs 2 x Intel® NVMe P4510 Series 2.0 TB NUMA aligned (for OS and primary data) 4 x Intel® NVMe P4510 Series 2.0 TB NUMA aligned (for OS and primary data) 12 x Intel® NVMe P4510 Series 4.0TB NUMA aligned Option 1 & 2: 12 x Intel® NVMe P4510 Series 8.0TB NUMA aligned Option 3: 10 x Intel® NVMe P4510 Series 8.0TB NUMA aligned Intel® QuickAssist technology Intel® QuickAssist 8960 PCIe* AIC or Intel® C627 Chipset with Intel® QAT enabled integrated with minimum PCIe x 8 uplink or higher SKU Intel® QuickAssist 8970 PCIe* AIC or Intel® C627 Chipset with Intel® QAT enabled integrated with minimum PCIe x16 uplink or higher SKU Visual Cloud acceleration card n/a Intel® Visual Compute Accelerator 2 (VCA2) 1585LMV (transcoding accelerator card, PCIe Gen3 x16) INTEL® SELECT SOLUTION FOR VISUAL CLOUD DELIVERY NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS Option 1: DRAM only configuration Option 2: DRAM + Intel® Optane DC Persistent Memory configuration Option 3: DRAM + Intel® Optane DC SSD as a storage cache tier HARDWARE BOM 17
- 18. Operating System, Software and Drivers CentOS 7.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux* Host OS 7.6-kernel-3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64 7.6-kernel-3.10.0-957.el7.x86_64 Libvirt 4.5.0 4.5.01 QEMU 2.12.0 2.12.01 QAT L.4.3.0-0033 L.4.3.0-0033 CollectD 5.8 5.81 NVMe 1.0 1.0 DPDK 18.11 18.11 i40e 2.3.2-k 2.3.2-k i40evf 3.2.2-k 3.2.2-k ixgbe 5.5.5 5.1.0-k-rh7.6 ixgbevf 4.5.1 4.1.0-k-rh7.6 BIOS Enable/Disable BIOS Profile Max Performance Uncore Frequency Scaling Disable Platform Technologies Enable/Disable Intel® VT Intel CPU VMX Support Enable Intel IO Virtualization Enable Intel Boot Guard Intel Boot Guard Enable for Base Enable1 for Plus Intel® TXT Intel® Trusted Execution Technology Enable1 SOFTWARE STACK BIOS PLATFORM TECHNOLOGIES INTEL® SELECT SOLUTION FOR VISUAL CLOUD DELIVERY NETWORK CONFIGURATIONS 1Available as extra packages *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. 18
- 19. Key KPI targets Base configuration Plus configuration Criteria QAT Performance Compression (Compress and Verify) throughput1 40 Gbps 100 Gb/s Performance benchmarks to be met or exceeded for being verified as an Intel® Select Solution for Visual Cloud Delivery Network Encryption throughput2 40 Gb/s 100 Gb/s RSA throughput3 40 K Ops/s 100 K Ops/s OpenSSL Performance3 (PKE operation with 1 thread) Software 1 thread 1K signs/s NA Utilizing Intel® QAT 40 K signs/s 100 K signs/s OpenSSL Performance (AES128-CBC-HMAC- SHA1 operation with 8 threads with 16KB Packet Size ) Utilizing Intel® QAT 40 Gbps 100 Gbps IP CDN NGINX Performance HTTPS (in Memory) 30 K req/s with 4 K users4 30 K req/s with 5 K users4 HTTPS (in SSD) 28 K req/s with 4 K users4 30 K req/s with 5 K users4 Video Transcoding Performance H.264 to H.264 (1080p 30fps) 12 Streams 20 Streams H.265 to H.265 (1080p 30fps) 12 Streams 16 Streams H.264 to H.264 (1080p 30fps) Using VCA2 accelerator NA 48 Streams H.265 to H.265 (1080p 30fps) Using VCA2 accelerator NA 9 Streams Video Streaming Performance H.264 1080p30 VoD video streaming (HLS in Memory) 25 video streams 27 video streams H.264 1080p30 VoD video streaming (HLS in SSD) 20 video streams 22 video streams KEY BENCHMARK REQUIREMENTS 1Performance to be measured at 8 KB packet size 2Performance to be measured at 4 KB packet size 3Performance to be measured at 2 KB packet size 4Based on projections 19
- 20. The disaggregated architecture of SDN/NFV can make procurement harder: Obtaining a balance of “best of breed” and open solutions Complexity to deploy across multiple sites Sizing to meet the throughput, availability and other SLA requirements INTEL® SELECT SOLUTION FOR NFVI – RFP ENABLER FOR COSPS Improved operational efficiency through standard reference architecture Multi vendor support, thereby enabling no-compromise procurement options High VNF density and distributed storage utilization leading to reduced TCO Future-proof hardware that enables generation over generation performance improvements and seamless migration of workloads The consistent, defined building blocks of Intel® Select Solution for NFVI allow deployment of optimized, open infrastructure. Basing RFP requirements on these foundations allows: 20
- 21. SUMMARY AND WHERE TO GO FOR MORE INFO: 21 For more information on Intel Select Solutions for Network please visit: https://builders.intel.com/intelselectsolutions/network Business transformation requires a robust, flexible cloud-enabled network. Intel’s goal is to advance the industry by delivering and promoting technology innovation, standards, and initiatives that accelerate network transformation. INTEL® SELECT SOLUTION FOR NETWORK Developed in partnership with CommSPs and ecosystem partners to meet real requirements Offer choice with optimized and pre-tested configurations to eliminate guesswork and complexity Accelerate time-to-deployment of NFV solutions and free up resources for value-add activities
- 22. Intel Confidential – Share Under NDA Only 22
- 23. INTEL® SELECT SOLUTION FOR NFVI – V2 PLATFORMS VALUE PROPOSITION Customer: Save time & resources with pre-configured & validated building blocks Future proof with software defined infrastructure features to drive scale for NFV workloads Excellent TCO with network optimized SKUs Accelerated TTM with turnkey optimized solutions Enabling Technologies from Intel: Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor: with Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT), Boot Guard Technology & Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT), Intel® AVX-512 Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory: Provides bigger memory footprint at lower TCO and access to faster storage closer to CPU Intel® QAT: for bulk encryption and decryption, public key exchange and compression using hardware acceleration Intel® Network Adapter with Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK): provides highly optimized network virtualization and fast data path packet processing Intel® SSD: provides reliability, performance SOLUTION DESCRIPTION Clustered multi-node architecture with a cloud and a controller node for Intel® Select Solution for NFVI on Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor: Intel Xeon Scalable Processor, Intel® Solid State Drives (Intel® SSD), Intel® Optane™ DC Persistent Memory, Intel® C620 Series Chipset Ethernet Connection and Intel® Ethernet (Converged) Network Adapter NUMA Balanced & Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) for crypto/compression offloads as differentiating features Red Hat Enterprise Linux* (OpenStack*) & Canonical* optimized & validated solution stack Cloud Node Cloud Node Cloud Node Cloud (NFVi)Controller (NFVi) SINGLE SERVER OR CLUSTERED CONFIG Single Node for both Controller as well as Cloud Node 2-Node System – with one Controller Node and one Cloud Node N-Node Cluster – with multiple Controller and Cloud Nodes 23 *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
- 24. INTEL®SELECTSOLUTIONBASEAND PLUSCONFIGURATIONS INGREDIENT INTEL® SELECT SOLUTION BASE HW CONFIGURATION INTEL® SELECT SOLUTION PLUS HW CONFIGURATION Processor Intel® Xeon® Gold Processor 6138/6230 SKU Intel® Xeon® Gold Processor 6152/6238 SKU Memory 16GB DDR4 2667MHz. Total: 24 * 16GB (384GB) Total 16GB DDR4 2667MHz, 24 * 16GB (384GB) Total NICs 25GbE Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 SFP28+ or 10GbE Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710 or Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter X520-DA2 SFP+ 25GbE Intel® Ethernet Network Adapter XXV710 SFP28+ or 40GbE Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter XL710 QAT QAT1: Intel® QuickAssist 89XX Family of Adapters (PCIe) AIC or Equivalent Third Party Intel® C62X Series Chipset QAT Enabled PCIe AIC QATIntel® QuickAssist C620 Series or Intel® C627/C628 Chipset Integrated w/ NUMA Connectivity Storage >=480GB Intel® SSD SATA + 2 x Intel® NVMe P4500 Series 2.0TB >=480GB Intel® SSD SATA + 4 x Intel® NVMe P4500 Series 2.0TB 24 Solutions incorporating the latest Intel Xeon Gold 6248 processors and Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 processors deliver the same performance or incremental performance gains as compared to similarly configured solutions based on previous-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. NOTE: V1 Solution, adding option to use CLX SKUs 1Intel® QAT is required for Intel Select Technical Verification. It is not required to ship with the server for workloads that do not require crypto or compression acceleration It is recommended to use the latest BIOS, BMC and MCU firmware version when using the Intel® Xeon® Gen-2 processors.
- 25. KEY BENCHMARK REQUIREMENTS KEY KPI TARGETS BASE CONFIGURATION PLUS CONFIGURATION CRITERIA QAT Performance Compression (Compress and Verify) throughput1 24 Gbps 50 Gb/s Performance benchmarks to be met or exceeded for being verified as an Intel® Select Solution for NFVI Solution Encryption throughput2 40 Gb/s 100 Gb/s RSA throughput3 100 K Ops/s 100 K Ops/s OpenSSL Performance Openssl throughput3 40 K signs/s 100 K signs/s Packet Processing Performance using DPDK L3fwd RFC2544 zero packet loss test 2 x Dual Port 10 GbE 90% Line Rate with Packet Size 256B NA 2 x Dual Port 25 GbE 90% Line Rate with Packet Size 256B 90% Line Rate with Packet Size 256B 2 x Dual Port 40 GbE NA 60% Line Rate with Packet Size 256B* NGINX NGINX Stack Utilizing QAT Engine and OpenSSL 1.1.0 (HTTPS connections per second throughput) NA 80000 CPS Cyclictest (Required Only for Fusion Sphere) NFVI system latency (Wake-up time of threads running in a VM) < 15 μs Average Latency < 15 μs Average Latency 1Performance to be measured at 8 KB packet size 2Performance to be measured at 4 KB packet size 3Performance to be measured at 2 KB packet size *The XL710 is a 40 GbE controller. The 2 x 40 GbE adapter using this controller is not intended to be a 2 x 40 GbE but a 1 x 40 GbE with an active back-up port. When attempting to use line-rate traffic involving both ports, the internal switch is saturated and the combined bandwidth between the two ports are limited to a total of 50 Gb/s. 25
Editor's Notes
- Data is exploding as billions of devices connect with each other, which is why network transformation to 5G is key. There are requirements for new business and use models, along with higher speeds, greater capacity, and lower latency for everything smart—be it retail and hospitality, healthcare, smart cities and stadiums, autonomous driving, or edge cloud gaming; the list goes on. Intel’s communications service provider (CoSP) customers are moving in that direction as they replace their fixed function hardware infrastructure with software defined networks (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) technologies to build such smart, intelligent, powerful networks that span from cloud, to core, to access, to edge.
- Intel enables every aspect of the 5G value chain by collaborating with the ecosystem partners, CoSPs, and industry groups to lead the network transformation – by driving the development of capabilities in networking components, standards, and intelligence. Intel® Select Solutions for the network enable this 5G strategy by using all our expertise to accelerate the network transformation journey. There are currently three Intel Select Solutions available for the network – NFVI, uCPE & Visual Cloud Delivery Network.
- Customers want to virtualize the network to gain flexibility, agility, and scale, but it can get challenging with the complexity involved in the provisioning of newer services and workloads. Intel Select Solutions for the network are intended to solve this problem.
- Intel Select Solutions provide a recipe (ingredients and methodology) in the form of a reference design targeting a specific workload. Intel works closely with operating system vendors (OSVs) to ensure system-level optimization from the hardware, to the software, to the firmware, including the bios, and other settings. The reference designs include, a “base” configuration to balance price and performance and the “plus” configuration to unleash maximum performance. Some of the Reference Designs may come with a controller node config as well to take care of a multi-node clustered configuration.
- Key benefits of investing in an Intel Select Solution are simple: •Simplified evaluation. •Fast and easy deployment. •Workload-optimized performance
- Intel® Select Solution for NFVI provides consistent building blocks to address NFVi workloads like vRAN, vBNG, vIMS, and vEPC. It is a non-uniform memory access (NUMA) balanced dual-socket configuration with Intel® QuickAssist Technology (Intel® QAT) and Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor being the hero features. It comes in three flavors: Ubuntu*, Red Hat*, and FusionSphere*.
- The Intel Select Solution for CDN is a derivative of the NFVI solution that targets CDN workloads. It is a dual-socket configuration with Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory, Intel QAT, and Intel Xeon Scalable processor as its hero features and helps address CDN needs - to be more open, agile and cloud like.
- When and Where Should We Consider Deploying Intel Select Solutions for the Network? Right-size the CoSP infrastructure footprint easily with respect to service-level agreement (SLA) requirements for various NFV use cases or workloads. Simplify multiple vendor procurement options. Respond to any CoSP RFPs or RFIs, and completely use the various Intel technologies that constitute the solution to drive scale. Drive lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and improved operational efficiency through standard reference architecture. Derive long-term benefits with future-proof hardware that enables generation-over-generation performance benefits and seamless migration of workloads
- In a nutshell, Intel® Select Solutions for the network provide you the recipes to build standard servers with tested configurations of leading software and system components designed to deliver consistent performance for NFVi and real network workloads. All information related to Intel Select Solutions for the Network can be found at our Intel Network Builders website.