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

[FERNANDO FREDIANI]

On 31/10/2017 11:11, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
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>     DPDK for sure is a fantastic feature for networking environments.
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> A bit over-rated, for most workloads, if you ask me...
> Currently requires a bit too much configuration (in my opinion), but 
> certainly there are workloads who critically need it.
> Y.
Agreed

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>     Fernando
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>     On 31/10/2017 05:56, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
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>>     On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Vinícius Ferrão
>>     <ferrao at if.ufrj.br <mailto:ferrao at if.ufrj.br>> wrote:
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>>         Hello John,
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>>         This is very interesting news for HPC guys. Accordingly to
>>         the blog post there's a new “CPU passthrough” function. Which
>>         is interesting.
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>>         Do you guys are targeting which market? I’m looking forward
>>         for virtual nodes on a HPC environment.
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>>     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.
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>>     For some workloads, low latency networking is also important
>>     (especially for nodes inter-communication) and we are looking at
>>     DPDK for it. See[1].
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>>     Y.
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>>     [1] https://www.ovirt.org/blog/2017/09/ovs-dpdk/
>>     <https://www.ovirt.org/blog/2017/09/ovs-dpdk/>
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>>         Thanks,
>>         V.
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>>>         On 30 Oct 2017, at 07:38, John Marks <jmarks at redhat.com
>>>         <mailto:jmarks at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>>>         Hello!
>>>         Just a quick heads up that there is a new post on the oVirt
>>>         blog:
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>>>         Introducing High Performance Virtual Machines
>>>         <https://ovirt.org/blog/2017/10/introducing-high-performance-vms/>
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>>>         In a nutshell:
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>>>         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/>
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>>>         See you on the oVirt blog!
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>>>         Best,
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>>>         John
>>>         -- 
>>>         John Marks
>>>         Technical Writer, oVirt
>>>         redhat Israel
>>>         Cell: +972 52 8644 491
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