Openvswitch with DPDK support on CloudStack – Part 2 | CloudStack Feature Deep Dive
Introduction In my previous post, I described the new ‘Open vSwitch with DPDK support’ on CloudStack for KVM hosts. There, I focused on describing the feature, as it was new to CloudStack, and also explained the necessary configuration on the KVM agents’ side to enable DPDK support. DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) (https://www.dpdk.org/) is a set of libraries and NIC drivers for fast package processing in userspace. Using DPDK along with OVS brings benefits to networking performance on VMs and networking appliances. DPDK support in CloudStack requires that the KVM hypervisor is running on DPDK compatible hardware. In this post, […]