Petar Torre

11 December 2015

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 Agenda

Requirements on NFV Infrastructure

Intel ingredients for workload optimization
Intel DC product lines for CPU, NIC, SSD and Intel QuickAssist Technology
Enhanced Platform Awareness
Summary

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 Requirements on NFV Infrastructure
Some differences to generic IT:
service aware
Orchestration Determinism and performance
platform aware
Small packet processing
Real-time, latency (<10s for CPE and access
VM1 VM2 VM3 functions), jitter

Availability (detect failed VMs in <1s and

Hypervisor autorestart, autorestart/recovery host failures)

Regulatory, geolocation (incl. geo redundancy)

Accelerate VM migration in planned

CPU Chipset
Ethernet Switch
Linux*+Apps maintenance
Silicon Silicon
HW acceleration cards
(Diagram for illustration only)
Advanced management (OSS/BSS)
Abstract where possible, optimize where needed
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Intel ingredients for workload optimization
(in telco datacenters)
Intel Xeon processor Intel Solid State Drive
E5-2600 v3 Family DC P3700 Family
Compute Storage
Intel Data Directed I/O makes the PCI Express* brings extreme data throughput
processor cache the primary destination and directly to Intel Xeon processors
source of I/O data rather than main memory

Intel Solid State Drive

Intel C610 Series Chipset DC P3700 Series Family
Chipset

Intel Ethernet Controller Accelerator cards

82599 and XL710 Family Allow more processor cycles for application,
Software
Network Acceleration control processing
10 and 40 GbE connectivity for Enterprise,
- Intel QuickAssist
Cloud and Communications
Technology: Offloads packet processing
for encryption and compression
Acceleration libraries for algorithms
Intel Ethernet Converged various HW offload of - Intel Visual Compute Accelerator
Network Adapter
82599 and XL710 / X710 algorithm primitives Card: for Emerging 4K, H.265 UHD
Family Data Plane Development Kit transcode, Video Delivery
Intel QuickAssist Adapter
Quick Assist patches 8950-SCCP
Intel Storage Acceleration Library

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 Data center CPU product lines
System on Chip (SoC) CPU Co-Processor
Intel Itanium Processor
9500 product family

Intel Xeon Processor

E7 family Intel Xeon Phi
Coprocessor x100
+ product family
Intel Xeon Processor
E5 family

Intel Xeon Processor Intel Xeon Processor

D Product family E3 family

Intel Atom Processor C2000

Product family

For distributed and centralized DCs: Intel Xeon E5 2600-series v3

For on-premise vECPE platforms: Intel Xeon D processor, Intel Atom C-series processor

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 Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter Family
Intel 82599ES 10GbE Intel Ethernet Controller
Ethernet Controller X710 & XL710
QSFP+ Connectors

4x10GbE 4x10GbE
4x10GbE
or 1x40GbE or 2x40GbE
Intel Ethernet CNA X520-QDA1 Intel Ethernet CNA XL710-QDA1 Intel Ethernet CNA XL710-QDA2
SFP+ Connectors

2x10GbE 2x10GbE 4x10GbE

Intel Ethernet CNA X520-DA2 Intel Ethernet CNA X710-DA2 Intel Ethernet CNA X710-DA4
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 Intel Quick Assist Technology
Intel Quick Assist Adapter for Servers
Accelerates network appliances
Low-profile, half-length, single slot
Encryption: SSL, IPsec, RSA Decrypt,
Kasumi, SNOW 3G
PCIe card like:

Compression: LZS, Deflate

API, enabled frameworks and

Linux* driver
SR-IOV Virtual Functions

More on:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/network-adapters/quickassist-
adapter-for-servers.html

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 Current Intel SSDs for the Data Center
Next Gen SSD w/PCIe 3.0 Interface
& NVMe Protocol Designed for Non-Volatile Storage! DC P3700
Connection Series
PCIe
Best
Protocol Highest Performance
>6x MORE performance

High Endurance
DC P3608 for high performance, write
Series intensive applications
PCIe
Better
DC P3500 DC S3710
Higher Performance
Series Series
PCIe
Mid Endurance
for high performance, SATA
Good mixed workloads
High Performance
Standard Endurance
for read intensive applications DC S3610
Series
8
DC S3510 SATA
Series
SATA

High Endurance Technology

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 Server architecture and workload placement
Legend: memory memory
core0 core8 core0 core8
Good placement
huge core1 core9 core1 core9 huge
Bad placement page
page core2 core10
core2 core10
huge huge
core3 core11 core3 core11
page page
core12
QPI core4 core12
core4
huge huge
page core5 core13 core5 core13 page

huge core6 core14 core6 core14 huge

page page
core7 core15 core7 core15

socket 0 socket 1

PCIe PCIe

NIC0 NIC1 NIC0 NIC1

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
G G G G G G G G

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 Key Enhanced Platform Awareness features
Example platform features for NFV Cumulative performance impact on a
dataplane workloads: prototype application from platform
optimizations
SR-IOV

Huge Pages

NUMA

vCPU pinning to cores

CPU model, instructions, Last Level Cache

vSwitch

Real Time

Trusted Execution Technology as % of 10Gb/s

Source: Intel white paper QoS in BRAS
with Linux* and IA, August 2014
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 EPA at Resource Orchestration

NFV Resource Orchestrator needs

Virtual Network
to understand what is required to
Function
Resource support each VM
Orchestration
Requests facilities from the
VM VM VM VM
relevant VIM, which then allocates
Infrastructure as a Service logical and physical resources from
a managed pool

Servers & VIM

hypervisor Cloud/SDN

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 Summary of HW and open source SW ingredients
Orchestration

Node
app1 app2 app3
DPDK DPDK
Linux** VM Linux VM
QEMU, VirtIO DPDK QEMU, VirtIO

SR-IOV
vSwitch
Linux KVM
Server
Intel Virtualization Intel 82599 or XL710 Intel Quick Assist
Technology Ethernet Controllers Adapter 8950 for Servers

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