Express Virtio (XVIO) Technology

Express Virtio (XVIO) is a standards-based technology that delivers the highest networking performance, mobility and server resource utilization for Virtio-based virtual machine (VM) workloads. The innovative XVIO technology eliminates significant operational, performance and server efficiency-related challenges. XVIO enables standard Virtio drivers available in many Guest OS’s the level of performance of SR-IOV solutions but maintains full VM mobility. This enables virtual machines (VMs) managed using OpenStack to experience bare metal-like networking performance and at the same time supports complete hardware independence and seamless customer VM onboarding. XVIO integrates seamlessly with wide variety of networking services including Agilio® CoreNIC, Agilio OVS, Agilio OVS Firewall and Agilio vRouter products. For the cloud service provider, the benefit of utilizing OpenStack Cloud Orchestration with XVIO is a consistent and homogeneous hardware infrastructure with Agilio SmartNICs, provide the services to the VMs as needed using Agilio software, and, place the VMs as needed to optimize utilization of the data center while maintaining highest performance.

Products

XVIO capable Agilio SmartNIC and software can be utilized to deliver sophisticated networking services to VMs including multi-tenancy, service chaining, stateless and stateful policy rules, per-flow network analytics and load balancing:

Agilio CX SmartNICs

Agilio LX SmartNICs

Agilio OVS Software

Agilio OVS Firewall Software

Agilio vRouter Software

Benchmarks

XVIO with Agilio OVS and Agilio CX SmartNICs delivers 24Mpps. This includes a significant number of policy rules and VXLAN tunneling.

XVIO with Agilio vRouter and Agilio CX SmartNICs delivers 20Mpps. This includes a significant number of policy rules and VXLAN or MPLS over GRE tunneling.

Please contact Netronome for further details on benchmarking methodologies utilized.

Benefits

XVIO delivers ease of on-boarding customer VMs and virtual network functions (VNFs) and the ability to support live VM migration. XVIO enables performance similar to SR-IOV while delivering rich networking services available with networking software such as OVS, Connection Tracking/Linux Firewall and Contrail vRouter. XVIO achieves the highest server efficiency through CPU core savings, freeing them up for applications and VMs. Reduced operational complexity through a consistent and homogeneous infrastructure for wide variety of VM service requirements.

Documentation

Technology Brief: Express Virtio – XVIO

White Paper: The Case for Express Virtio (XVIO)

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Testimonials

“Virtual switches have become an integral part of data center networking, however performance becomes a significant impediment at 10Gb/s and higher data rates. Netronome Agilio CX SmartNICs save significant CPU cycles while improving performance for server-based networking features such as virtual tunnel end points and policies per VM or tenant, enabling higher service levels at lower cost.”

- Chen Li, SDN Project Manager at China Mobile

“Ericsson’s Cloud SDN Platform based on OpenDaylight, leverages open source technologies such as Open vSwitch and OpenStack to provide a flexible and scalable networking framework for deploying IT and NFV services. Integration of the Netronome Agilio SmartNIC and software solution into the Ericsson Cloud SDN solution results in up to five times more output per server rack, helping lower overall dollar per compute resource in the data center infrastructure.”

- Elena Romero, Head of Product Line SDN & Policy Control at Ericsson

“Programmable networking data path implementation in hardware can enable differentiated performance and service levels on a per NFV application or per customer basis. The P4 data path programming language, as supported by Netronome’s Agilio CX SmartNICs and related development tools, is simple and hardware agnostic, allowing for rapid and future-proofed networking datapath innovation.”

- Elena Romero, Head of Product Line SDN & Policy Control at Ericsson

“The Juniper Networks Contrail vRouter, one of the key components of the Contrail SDN solution, is ideal for orchestrating and automating cloud networks. The Contrail vRouter and its ability to provide highly scalable secure virtual networks, combined with SmartNICs such as Netronome’s Agilio CX, allows the acceleration of a broad set of networking functions and the ability to evolve rapidly with changing needs.”

- Ankur Singla, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Software at Juniper Networks.

“Proven and robust cloud management with Mirantis OpenStack enables service providers and enterprises to accelerate their SDN and NFV adoption,” said “Netronome’s Agilio platform supports standard OVS interfaces, helping to maintain a high level of cloud management user experience while delivering hardware acceleration and resulting efficiencies.”

- Kamesh Pemmaraju, Vice President of Product Marketing, Mirantis

“Netronome’s Agilio SmartNICs provide an excellent platform to showcase Tieto’s expertise in NFV solutions. The Tieto and Netronome collaboration has demonstrated a 5X performance improvement over conventional solutions for virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) while preserving the benefits of virtualization on COTS hardware.”

- Nicholas Hamblin, Head of Cloud and IP Business Unit at Tieto

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