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Meeting Intense PerformanceDemands in Cloud EnvironmentsJe, Ic. rives p c ewrk perrmace wi a iqe viraizai

apprac a Ie Eere 10 Gigabi Server Aapers.

Organizations increasingly place demanding performance requirementson cloud netwoks. Man nd that using an extenal cloud sevice

povide lets them take advantage of established expetise to meet

emeging technical equiements. Othe customes building thei own

cloud envionments likewise stand to gain fom the innovation of a

vendo expeienced in building cloud softwae, unning cloud data

centes, and sevicing pivate cloud infastuctues.

Joent, based in San Fancisco and with locations all ove the wold,

povides cloud computing poducts and sevices fo web-based segments

such as social netwok gaming and eal-time mobile applications. The

compan is unique in its combination of having developed a cloudsoftwae stack, unning a lage public cloud based on it, and offeing

its softwae to outside companies that want to build thei own cloud

envionments. Joent solutions ae highl optimized fo Intel achitectue

thoughout the stack, fom the pocesso out to the Intel Ethenet

10 Gigabit Seve Adaptes.

ChAllEnGE

Delive high pefomance fom cloud infastuctue while keeping equipment costs and

TCO as low as possible. Suppot a gowing custome base that pesents the demands of

eal-time, data-intensive applications.

SolutIon

Joent developed a novel OS-level vitualization appoach that cuentl suppots as

man as 2,000 application tenants acoss ve phsical hosts, and the team thinks it

likel that the sstem is capable of even moe.1 The compan meets the intensive I/O

equiements fo this envionment with Intel Ethenet 10 Gigabit Seve Adaptes.

BuSInESS BEnEfIt

In addition to maintaining headoom fo high tansaction ates and use counts in

eal time, Joent has simplied its netwok envionment. Deploing Intel Ethenet 10

Gigabit Seve Adaptes athe than multiple Gigabit Ethenet (GbE) adaptes loweed

the numbe of phsical seve adaptes needed and educed cable clutte and switch

equiements, enabling moe compute capacit pe ack and loweing both capital andopeating expense.

With Intel Server Adapters, we

have a single, solid component

designer behind the NIC, the

CPU, the chipset, and the SSDs.And 10 Gigabit Ethernet is a

no-brainer for avoiding trouble

from congestionthe same

reason we need more lanes

on the freeways.

Jason Hoffman,

Co-Founder and Chief

Scientist, Joyent

CASE Study

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Gigabi Server Aapers

Cloud Computing

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Arciecre: A nve Apprac harware Absraci

The value of cloud-based computing,

fom a custome pespective, comes

lagel fom the agilit benet of being

able to povision additional esouces

when needed. Oganizations can spin

up moe vitual machines (VMs) at an

time, allowing them to scale up duing

usage peaks and back down when

usage deceases. While that elasticit is

efcient, it has some inheent limitations

in conventional cloud environments:

Scaig reqires sarig mre VMs

because fixed amounts of esouces

ae assigned to each VM.

Sarig p VMs is isaaes

because it equies time to boot the OS

in each VM.

te oS i eac VM ms be maage ,

adding complexit to the envionment that

can ceate cost and stabilit challenges.

Joent builds on the foundation of Intel

Vitualization Technolog to povide aninnovative vitualization stack with its

Smat Technologies Achitectue. As

shown in Figue 1, vitualization with

Joent SmatMachines* pools phsical

esouces such as pocessos and netwok

hadwae so that each application diectl

accesses those esouces though the

Joent SmatOS*.

In the Joent cloud achitectue,

applications can dnamicall each

additional hadwae esouces as needed,

without the ovehead of spinningup anothe VM. Moeove, esouce

utilization is impoved because static

assignment of esouces on a pe-VM

basis is avoided, emoving the need fo

ove-povisioning. As a esult, sstem

utilization is inceased, with each phsical

host cuentl suppoting 400 tenants pe

phsical seve. Futhe, the Joent team

is condent that the will be able to push

that numbe even highe in the futue.1

Meeting Intense Performance Demands in Cloud Environments

figre 1. The Joent SmatMachine* abstacts hadwae moe full than conventional vitual machine achitectues, pesenting a pool of hadwaeesouces athe than esouce slices.

Traditional Virtualizationwith Virtual Machines

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MachinesSmartMachines

Operating

System and

Virtualization

Layer

Virtualization

Layer

Physical

Hardware

Physical

Hardware

Resource

Slice

Resource

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Resource

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Resource

Slice

Virtualization with JoyentSmartMachines*

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Code

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Code

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Hypervisor (VMware vSphere*,

XenServer*, etc.)

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Aapers: Imprve trgpa lwer Cs

The abilit of Joent Smat Technologies

Achitectue to dive up the numbe

of tenants per server places increased

demands on netwok I/O. Ban Cantill,

Joent VP of engineeing, notes that the

high pefomance of the latest Intel

Xeon pocessos is a huge asset, but Intel

Ethenet 10 Gigabit Seve Adaptes ae

at least as impotant a facto in obtaining

high-pefomance cloud infastuctue.

The compan depends exclusivel on IntelEthenet 10 Gigabit Seve Adaptes as it

deplos new seve hadwae in its cloud

envionments to keep up with the abilit

of moden pocessos such as the Intel

Xeon pocesso 5600 seies to push

massive amounts of data. Contill said,

I love Intels 10Gb NICs. The pefom

well, and Intel gets it ight standing behind

them. Thats impotant because a lot of

thon issues can come up with these

complex envionments. Indeed, that

tpe of condence is a ke benet of

Intels offeings acoss the boad.

Growing core counts and raw

processor performance demand

the ability to move massive

amounts of data over the network,

and high levels of bandwidth are

needed to avoid I/O bottlenecks.

Intel Ethernet 10 Gigabit Server

Adapters handle that requirement

while cutting down port count

and complexity, compared to older

Gigabit Ethernet networking,

together with the industry-leading

dependability that comes from

working with trusted, proven

solutions from Intel.

Fom a da-to-da opeational standpoint,

Intel Ethenet 10 Gigabit Seve Adaptes

povide a obust, fowad-looking basis

for network connectivity of Joyents

cloud infrastructure:

Spprig aa-iesive appicais

with contolles that ae designed

in conjunction with the latest Intel

seve platfoms, including the Intel

Xeon pocesso 5600 seies, fo highl

optimized performance.

Cig ewrk cs a cmpexi

b consolidating as man as six o eight

GbE pots onto two 10GbE pots.

Cig mare, sabe rivers

fo Intel Ethenet that help ensue

touble-fee, dependable opeationon the UNIX*-based Joent SmatOS.

Intel is the indust leade in Ethenet

contolles and adaptes, with 30 eas

of expeience. Intel Ethenet 10 Gigabit

Seve Adaptes give cloud infastuctue

based on Joent Smat Technologies

access to high-pefomance netwoking

with a well-eaned eputation fo

dependabilit while cutting down on

cabling and switch equiements.

te frwar-lkig C:lw laec r daa-Iesive,Rea-time Apps

Looking ahead, Joent has aligned its

oadmap and stateg with what it

sees as a newl emeging class of webapplications. Usages such as social

netwok-based inteactive gaming

and eal-time communication have the

potential to dive business needs fo data-

intensive handling of compute wokloads

with ve stingent latenc equiements.

Commodit clouds ae not built to addess

this tpe of usage model, and Joent sees

oppotunit fo poviding ve high qualit

of sevice and low-latenc cloud sevices.

Meeting Intense Performance Demands in Cloud Environments

As our customers build more data-

intensive, real-time applications, we

look to Intel Ethernet 10Gb Server

Adapters to drive down latency.

Bryan Cantrill, Vice President

of Engineering, Joyent

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Ab Ie Eere

Intel is the indust leade in Ethenet contolles and adaptes with

a boad poduct potfolio and 30 eas of expeience deliveing

connectivit that IT customes depend on.

www.ie.cm/g/eere

Joents vision is that timeliness will

inceasingl dene coect opeation

of compute sstems and sevices. As

computing as a whole inceasingl

migates to cloud infastuctues, cloud

sevices that can suppot low-latenc

opeation ma be in highe demand tosuppot applications with equiements

such as the following:

Rea-ime scia meia such as

interactive games require low latency

because a piece of data aiving late

represents an error.

Rea-ime cmmicais such as

voice, video, and emote contol of

automated systems demand timely

delive of eve data packet, and

latency or loss of any significant

amount is unacceptable.

Srage ewrkig with mechanisms

such as netwok-based stoage o

stoage aea netwoks based on

Ethenet must maintain low latenc

and lossless delivery.

Too man beaches of timeliness mean

that the sstem o sevice is not capable

of handling these applications coe

equiements to povide an acceptable

use expeience. Binging togethe a

histo of pefomance and stabilit with

a futue of continuing innovation, Joent ispoised to help delive the next geneation

of cloud infrastructure.

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