Cavium
announced range of support for the deployment of OpenStack cloud
systems. Cavium has announced full support for OpenStack deployment by
offering optimized platforms for OpenStack deployments on its devices
and systems such as ThunderX, LiquidIO and FastLinQ product families.
OpenStack is open source software for building clouds. Data centers can
use OpenStack for quickly deploy new cloud products at reduced costs.
Open Stack can deliver cheaper cloud services for multiple applications.
Cavium
has optimized its ThunderX ARMv8 based processor architecture for OpenStack
cloud infrastructure deployment. The idea is to allow users of OpenStack cloud
infrastructure to fully utilize ThunderX ARMv8 for workloads such as cloud
storage with CEPH, Apache Hadoop for Big Data Analytics, distributed data bases
such as MySQL and Cassandra and secure web serving with NGINX. Cavium also says
its ThunderX is optimized for networking specific workloads such as Network
Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Load-Balancing for Telco applications.
Cavium
said its LiquidIO II Intelligent Server adapters also support and seamlessly
integrate OpenStack software value-add functionality for application
acceleration, network configuration and provisioning, security, and isolation
in multi-tenant compute clusters. LiquidIO Open Virtual Switch (OVS) offload
enables various Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and security features as
a workload specific Virtual Network Function (VNF) or as a Service Function
Chain (SFC) with seamless configuration and provisioning using OpenStack
platform.
When
coming to next Gen Ethernet adapters, Cavium is offering QLogic FastLinQ 45000
Series capability to support 10/25/40/50/100GbE with Ethernet deliver broad set
of protocols including Universal RDMA, and stateless offloads for server and
network virtualization. QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters delivers the ability
to orchestrate and manage an OpenStack deployment with technologies like the
Plug-in for Mirantis FUEL for automatic SR-IOV configuration. QConvergeConsole
(QCC) for OpenStack physical and logical topology maps and ability to offer QoS
for network functions operating to be simplified and accelerated.
Cavium
has optimized its ThunderX 64–bit ARMv8 based SoC family with a range of SKUs
and form factors for hyper scale data centers targeting cloud computing and NFV
include volume compute, storage, secure compute and networking specific
workloads.
Software
developers who are partnering with Cavium on ThunderX include Canonical, Red
Hat and SUSE.
