Mellanox Cloud and Database Acceleration Solution over Windows Server 2012 SMB Direct

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Mellanox Cloud and Database

Acceleration Solution over

Windows Server® 2012 SMB Direct

Increased Performance,

Scaling and Resiliency

July 2012

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New class of enterprise file storage

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Low latency, high throughout, low CPU overhead (50% lower versus Ethernet)

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Fibre Channel replacement at a lower cost and higher performance

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Leverages Windows Server 2012 integrated Mellanox Ethernet and InfiniBand RDMA

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Accelerates Microsoft HyperV-SMB and SQL-SMB solutions

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and SMB Direct

File Client File Server

SMB Client User Kernel Disk RDMA Adapter Network w/ RDMA support RDMA Adapter

*Preliminary results based on Windows Server 2012 RC

SMB Server Network w/ RDMA support NTFS SCSI Application

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Remote Direct Memory Access Protocol

• Accelerated IO delivery model which works

by allowing application software to bypass most layers of software and communicate directly with the hardware

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RDMA benefits

• Low latency

• High throughput

• Zero copy capability

• OS / Stack bypass

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Mellanox RDMA based Interconnects

• InfiniBand

• RoCE: RDMA over Converged Ethernet

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SMB Direct over InfiniBand and RoCE

1.Application (Hyper-V, SQL Server) does not need to change.

2.SMB client makes the decision to use SMB Direct at run time

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Mellanox End-to-End VPI Solution

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Mellanox provides end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet

connectivity solutions (adapters, switches, cables)

• Connecting data center servers and storage

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Up to 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40Gb/s Ethernet per port

• Low latency, Low CPU overhead, RDMA

• InfiniBand to Ethernet Gateways for seamless operation

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Windows Server 2012 exposes the great value of

Mellanox Interconnect Solution for storage traffic,

virtualization and low latency

• InfiniBand and Ethernet (with RoCE) integration

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Microsoft Delivers Low-Cost Replacement to High-End Storage

FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand delivers 5X higher throughput

with 50% less CPU overhead vs. 10GbE

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File Client (SMB 3.0)

Measuring SMB Direct Performance in Virtualized

Environment

Single Server

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SMB Direct Performance in Virtualized Environment

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At least one node and storage always available, despite failure or

replacement of any component.

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Dual power domains

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Internal interconnect between nodes, controllers

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Flexible PCIe slot for LAN options

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External SAS ports for JBOD expansion

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Office-level power and acoustics for entry-level NAS

Microsoft’s Cluster in the Box (CiB) Reference Design

Server Enclosure x4 SAS through midplane x4 SAS through midplane Additional JBODs … 1/10G Ethernet cluster connect B port s A port s x8 PCIe Server B Server A x8 PCIe x4 SAS External JBOD x8 PCIe x4 SAS x8 PCIe

Mellanox VPI Interconnect Solutions 10GbE, RoCE or InfiniBand

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Remote Storage Systems

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Windows Server 2012 with SMB 3.0

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PCI Express 3.0 based Servers - HP DL380p G8

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Mellanox 56Gb/s FDR InfiniBand adapters and switches

Products Announced: X-IO Storage

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Hyper-V with Windows Server 2012 RC

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Supermicro PCIe 3.0 based Servers, File Server & JBOD

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LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285 storage controllers with LSI FastPath

I/O acceleration software

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OCZ’s Talos 2R SSDs

Products Announced: Supermicro

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Together with Microsoft we deliver 10X performance acceleration for

Remote File Server under physical or virtual environment that boosts next generation Cloud and database applications

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The first time we demo record performance for remote file server under Hyper-V using 2 FDR ports that delivers more than 10GB/sec using less than 5% CPU overhead

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Mellanox RDMA interconnect solution integrated with SMB Direct in Widows Server 2012 delivers the most cost effective solution for File Server

replacing FC and TCP/IP Ethernet.

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Now with Microsoft and Mellanox integrated solution, remote file server delivers no less performance than native storage.

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Customers already announced products using Mellanox RDMA enabled interconnect demonstrated extreme performance

Summary

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