Unleashing 100GbE network efficiency: SR-IOV in Red Hat OpenShift on OpenStack
Red Hat News, Thursday, July 25th, 2024
Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a technology that allows the isolation of PCI Express (PCIe) resources for better network performance. In this article, we explore a recent study by the Red Hat OpenStack Performance and Scale team, which demonstrated the capabilities of SR-IOV using 100GbE NVIDIA ConnectX-6 adapters within a Red Hat OpenShift on Red Hat OpenStack (ShiftonStack) setup.
The study focused on integrating OpenShift 4.15.15 with OpenStack 17.1.2 to improve network performance for both Containerized Network Functions (CNFs) and Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs). The study aimed to achieve the following objectives, which are critical for optimizing network performance in modern datacenters:...