We have all heard about the Cloud and, in general, we understand its advantages and disadvantages. But what really happens behind the curtains?
More recently, the concept of Software-Defined Networks (SDN) began to interlace with the Cloud, especially on its IaaS strand (Infrastructure as a Service), for providing computer networks as a service, either as an end in itself or as a means for supplying other resources to be consumed (e.g. virtual machines or network functions).
Especially, but not exclusively, in the telecommunications operators sector, another concept emerged: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).
NFV allows the use of Cloud, SDN and modern virtualization technologies in order to execute and manage services and network functions in standard servers, increasing homogeneity in data centers and reducing maintenance and operational costs.
At the end of this presentation, the audience will get to know the basics of these three concepts and some examples from the real world. They will know about the the present and a possible future.
Service Function Chaining in Openstack NeutronMichelle Holley
Service Function Chaining (SFC) uses software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities to create a service chain of connected network services (such as L4-7 like firewalls,
network address translation [NAT], intrusion protection) and connect them in a virtual chain. This capability can be used by network operators to set up suites or catalogs
of connected services that enable the use of a single network connection for many services, with different characteristics.
networking-sfc is a service plugin of Openstack neutron. The talk will go over the architecture, implementation, use-cases and latest enhancements to networking-sfc (the APIs and implementation to support service function chaining in neutron).
About the speaker: Farhad Sunavala is currently a principal architect/engineer working on Network Virtualization, Cloud service, and SDN technologies at Huawei Technology USA. He has led several wireless projects in Huawei including virtual EPC, service function chaining, etc. Prior to Huawei, he worked 17 years at Cisco. Farhad received his MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of New Hampshire. His expertise includes L2/L3/L4 networking, Network Virtualization, SDN, Cloud Computing, and
mobile wireless networks. He holds several patents in platforms, virtualization, wireless, service-chaining and cloud computing. Farhad was a core member of networking-sfc.
Virtualization with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)Novell
As a technical preview, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 contains KVM, which is the next-generation virtualization software delivered with the Linux kernel. In this technical session we will demonstrate how to set up SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for KVM, install some virtual machines and deal with different storage and networking setups.
To demonstrate live migration we will also show a distributed replicated block device (DRBD) setup and a setup based on iSCSI and OCFS2, which are included in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 High Availability Extension.
VMware ESXi - Intel and Qlogic NIC throughput difference v0.6David Pasek
We are observing different network throughputs on Intel X710 NICs and QLogic FastLinQ QL41xxx NIC. ESXi hardware supports NIC hardware offloading and queueing on 10Gb, 25Gb, 40Gb and 100Gb NIC adapters. Multiple hardware queues per NIC interface (vmnic) and multiple software threads on ESXi VMkernel is depicted and documented in this paper which may or may not be the root cause of the observed problem. The key objective of this document is to clearly document and collect NIC information on two specific Network Adapters and do a comparison to find the difference or at least root cause hypothesis for further troubleshooting.
We have all heard about the Cloud and, in general, we understand its advantages and disadvantages. But what really happens behind the curtains?
More recently, the concept of Software-Defined Networks (SDN) began to interlace with the Cloud, especially on its IaaS strand (Infrastructure as a Service), for providing computer networks as a service, either as an end in itself or as a means for supplying other resources to be consumed (e.g. virtual machines or network functions).
Especially, but not exclusively, in the telecommunications operators sector, another concept emerged: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).
NFV allows the use of Cloud, SDN and modern virtualization technologies in order to execute and manage services and network functions in standard servers, increasing homogeneity in data centers and reducing maintenance and operational costs.
At the end of this presentation, the audience will get to know the basics of these three concepts and some examples from the real world. They will know about the the present and a possible future.
Service Function Chaining in Openstack NeutronMichelle Holley
Service Function Chaining (SFC) uses software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities to create a service chain of connected network services (such as L4-7 like firewalls,
network address translation [NAT], intrusion protection) and connect them in a virtual chain. This capability can be used by network operators to set up suites or catalogs
of connected services that enable the use of a single network connection for many services, with different characteristics.
networking-sfc is a service plugin of Openstack neutron. The talk will go over the architecture, implementation, use-cases and latest enhancements to networking-sfc (the APIs and implementation to support service function chaining in neutron).
About the speaker: Farhad Sunavala is currently a principal architect/engineer working on Network Virtualization, Cloud service, and SDN technologies at Huawei Technology USA. He has led several wireless projects in Huawei including virtual EPC, service function chaining, etc. Prior to Huawei, he worked 17 years at Cisco. Farhad received his MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of New Hampshire. His expertise includes L2/L3/L4 networking, Network Virtualization, SDN, Cloud Computing, and
mobile wireless networks. He holds several patents in platforms, virtualization, wireless, service-chaining and cloud computing. Farhad was a core member of networking-sfc.
Virtualization with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)Novell
As a technical preview, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 contains KVM, which is the next-generation virtualization software delivered with the Linux kernel. In this technical session we will demonstrate how to set up SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for KVM, install some virtual machines and deal with different storage and networking setups.
To demonstrate live migration we will also show a distributed replicated block device (DRBD) setup and a setup based on iSCSI and OCFS2, which are included in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 High Availability Extension.
VMware ESXi - Intel and Qlogic NIC throughput difference v0.6David Pasek
We are observing different network throughputs on Intel X710 NICs and QLogic FastLinQ QL41xxx NIC. ESXi hardware supports NIC hardware offloading and queueing on 10Gb, 25Gb, 40Gb and 100Gb NIC adapters. Multiple hardware queues per NIC interface (vmnic) and multiple software threads on ESXi VMkernel is depicted and documented in this paper which may or may not be the root cause of the observed problem. The key objective of this document is to clearly document and collect NIC information on two specific Network Adapters and do a comparison to find the difference or at least root cause hypothesis for further troubleshooting.
