[ovirt-users] New post on oVirt blog: Introducing High Performance Virtual Machines

[FERNANDO FREDIANI]

Hi.

Does the virtualization layer causes any significant impact in the VM 
performance, even a high CPU VM that justify the use of this feature ?

DPDK for sure is a fantastic feature for networking environments.

Fernando

On 31/10/2017 05:56, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Vinícius Ferrão <ferrao at if.ufrj.br 
> <mailto:ferrao at if.ufrj.br>> wrote:
>
>     Hello John,
>
>     This is very interesting news for HPC guys. Accordingly to the
>     blog post there's a new “CPU passthrough” function. Which is
>     interesting.
>
>     Do you guys are targeting which market? I’m looking forward for
>     virtual nodes on a HPC environment.
>
>
> Any intensive workload, CPU and memory bound especially, would benefit 
> from the configuration.
> In memory DBs (SAP Hana, Redis and friends) for example, MapReduce 
> (Hadoop), etc.
>
> For some workloads, low latency networking is also important 
> (especially for nodes inter-communication) and we are looking at DPDK 
> for it. See[1].
>
> Y.
>
> [1] https://www.ovirt.org/blog/2017/09/ovs-dpdk/
>
>
>     Thanks,
>     V.
>
>>     On 30 Oct 2017, at 07:38, John Marks <jmarks at redhat.com
>>     <mailto:jmarks at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello!
>>     Just a quick heads up that there is a new post on the oVirt blog:
>>
>>     Introducing High Performance Virtual Machines
>>     <https://ovirt.org/blog/2017/10/introducing-high-performance-vms/>
>>
>>     In a nutshell:
>>
>>     oVirt 4.2.0 Alpha, released on September 28, features a new high
>>     performance virtual machine type. It brings VM performance closer
>>     to bare metal performance. Read the blog post.
>>     <https://ovirt.org/blog/2017/10/introducing-high-performance-vms/>
>>
>>     See you on the oVirt blog!
>>
>>     Best,
>>
>>     John
>>     -- 
>>     John Marks
>>     Technical Writer, oVirt
>>     redhat Israel
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