6WIND,
a high-performance networking software company, today announced
integration with Mirantis OpenStack to simplify joint customer
deployments for high performance data centers and Network Function
Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI). 6WIND Virtual Accelerator, which
is hypervisor acceleration software, will integrate an OpenStack Fuel
plugin for increased application throughput and efficiency in KVM
environments. Both companies have worked together to release a Mirantis
certified 6WIND Virtual Accelerator Fuel plugin. Developed in open
source, Fuel provides an intuitive, GUI-driven experience for deployment
and management of a variety of OpenStack distributions and plugins.
Hypervisor bottlenecks reduce
application performance, slowing adoption of NFV and limiting the scale
of data centers beyond 10G. Based on DPDK, 6WIND Virtual Accelerator
provides a packet processing solution for a full-featured and high
performance virtual networking infrastructure allowing:
- High performance I/Os leveraging DPDK, with multi-vendor NIC support
- High performance virtual switching (Open vSwitch and Linux bridge)
and networking (Overlays, Filtering/NAT, IP Forwarding, IPsec)
- Support for existing workloads through standard Virtio drivers
6WIND Virtual Accelerator's Fuel plugin
automates the deployment of DPDK-based hypervisor acceleration in
Mirantis OpenStack for virtual applications to scale from 10 to 40 to
100 Gbps throughput without disrupting the KVM hypervisors, SDN
Controllers or OpenStack. 6WIND Virtual Accelerator includes full
synchronization with the OS networking stack and zero configuration for
Linux architectures, benefiting its Fuel plugin users with flexibility
to automatically scale system resources according to application
bandwidth requirements.
"Many Network Operators are working with Mirantis OpenStack as they transition to NFV," said Kamesh Pemmaraju,
VP of Product Marketing at Mirantis. "The partnership between Mirantis
and 6WIND expands the use cases for OpenStack NFV by leveraging Fuel to
automate hypervisor scaling for critical high performance virtual
networking requirements."
"To realize the promise of
NFV with OpenStack deployments, hypervisor acceleration is required so
that performance is not sacrificed with virtualization," said Eric
Carmès, CEO and Founder of 6WIND. "Combining 6WIND's Fuel plugin with
Mirantis OpenStack automates hypervisor scaling, delivering bare metal
performance for NFV applications without added complexity."