Huawei Kunpeng Computing

Virtualization Solution

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Contents

1. Industry Trends

2. Kunpeng Computing Platform

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AI+5G Cloud Era Requires Diversified Computing

PC era Mobile Internet eraService innovation led

by Cloud, AI, and 5G

x86 PCs

Fixed

network

Midrange

computers/x86 servers

Data center

or cloud

computing

power

ARM intelligent

terminals

2G

3G

4G

x86 servers

Cloud servicesDiverse architecture of IaaS and

PaaS

Industry SaaS

Device

computing

power

NetworkNetwork

virtualization

SDN5G

x86 PCsARM intelligent

terminalsx86 PCs

IoT

devices

AI/big data mining

Network

virtualization

SDN

Embedded AI Low power

consumption

Low latency

Ultra-high

bandwidth

Heterogeneous

computing

Windows 1.x was released.

1985 2007

First-generation iPhone was released. 5G Polar code was

determined as the

channel coding

control scheme.

2019

5G licenses were

issued in China.

2018

The global public cloud

service and infrastructure

expenditure reached

$169.628 USD billion.

2016

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Cloud Platform Trend

Traditional industry: Build a mature and stable IaaS platform with KVM

Private Public

Hybrid Cloud

Private CloudMulti-DC

ConsolidationHybrid/Public CloudVirtualization

• Computing

virtualization

• Storage virtualization

• Network and security

virtualization

• Automated

management

• Elastic resource

scheduling

• HA and DRS of large

clusters

• Consolidation of

multiple data centers

(DCs)

• Multi-level backup

and DR

• Software-defined

networking (SDN)

• OpenStack/AWS

APIs

• Hardware/Virtual

resource pool

management

• Software-defined

data center

App

Hypervisor

(Host OS)

Hardware

Guest OS

App

Guest OS

• Improves the utilization of CPU, memory, and

I/O resources.• Improves availability and supports load

balancing, dynamic migration, and automatic

fault isolation.• Deploys and manages abstract physical

resources in a simplified manner.

Advantages of KVM Virtualization

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Cloud Platform Trend

Internet industry: Build a flexible, standardized, and lightweight PaaS platform with

Docker containers

Hardware

infrastructure

Container

technology

Microservice

framework

Agile

infrastructure

Loosely coupled

application

architecture

Monolithic

architectureSOA architecture

Microservice

architecture

Traditional

applications

Web applications with a

few clients

Massive distributed deployment,

clients, and data

Mobile Internet/IoT era

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

Mainframe/Midrange

computer and all-in-one

applications

Internet era

• Independent microservices allow quick

rollout of distributed applications in a large

scale• High performance, concurrency, and fast

delivery

Advantages of Docker Container

Technology

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Kunpeng Supports the Open-source OpenStack +

KVM Cloud Platform

VMVM

OpenStack

Linux

Cinder NeutronNova

Keystone

Glance

Swift

Heat

Ceilometer

Nova-Compute

driver

Cinder-Volume

driver

Neutron

plug-in

VM

Ironic

KVM

QEMU

NIC Driver

QEMU

OVS

Linux

Ceph

Linux

Computing

virtualization

Network

virtualization

Storage

virtualization

Kunpeng server

Management

platform

Virtualization

Hardware

platform

Software Function Support

OpenStackCloud

management

platform

• OpenStack Stein

• Supported components: Nova,

Cinder, Neutron, Swift,

Ceilometer, Heat, Keystone,

Glance, Ironic, Horizon, and

Placement

KVM

Open-source

virtualization

technology

built in Linux

• CentOS 4.14 kernel or later

• Live migration

• Hot swap of vCPUs and memory

is not supported.

QEMUVirtualization

technologies

for I/O devices

• Qemu-2.12.0 or later

• GPU virtualization is not

supported.

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Kunpeng KVM Virtualization Platform

Performance Tuning

• Check the hardware.

• Check BIOS settings.

• Set memory refresh rate to auto.

• Enable NUMA.

• More

• Update the GCC version.

• Disable transparent huge pages.

• More

KVM virtualization

platform

performance tuning

Hardware

parameter

optimization

OS

Virtualization

settings

optimization

• Bind VMs to CPU cores.

• Prevent cross-die and cross-chip

memory access.

• Enable the memory huge pages.

• More

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How to Improve the Kunpeng KVM Virtualization

Platform Performance

Tuning Item Description Applicable Scenario Remarks

BIOS configurationSet the memory refresh rate to

auto.Commercial use

It significantly improves memory

bandwidth performance.

NUMA affinity

Ensure that each vCPU and its

memory are in the same

physical node to prevent cross-

die and cross-chip memory

access.

Commercial useIt significantly improves CPU

virtualization performance.

CPU core binding

Bind each vCPU to a CPU

core.Commercial use

It significantly improves CPU

virtualization performance.

Bind vCPUs to CPU cores in a

CPU cluster.PoC tests only

It significantly improves memory

bandwidth performance.

Memory huge

page

Disable the transparent huge

pages and use 512 MB

memory huge pages.

Commercial use

In CentOS 7.6, the CPU

virtualization performance is

improved by about 5%.

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Kunpeng Supports the Open-source

Kubernetes + Docker Platform

Kunpeng server

Management

platform

Virtualization

Hardware

platform

Software Introduction Support

Kubernetes

Open-source

platform that can

automatically

implement Linux

container operations

Kubernetes

1.15.2 or later

DockerOpen-source

application container

engine

Docker 18.09.8 or

later

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Kunpeng Docker Platform Performance Tunning

Tuning Item Description Applicable Scenario Remarks

BIOS configuration Set the memory refresh rate to auto. Commercial use

Frequent memory refresh

compromises system performance.

Setting the value to 64 ms can

significantly improve the performance.

NUMA affinity

Ensure that the CPUs and memory

bound to a Docker container are in the

same physical node to prevent cross-

die and cross-chip memory access.

Commercial useIt significantly improves Docker

container computing performance.

CPU core binding

Bind each Docker vCPU to a CPU

core.Commercial use -

Bind Docker vCPUs to CPU cores in a

CPU cluster.PoC tests only

It significantly improves Docker

container computing performance.

NIC interrupt affinity

Bind each interrupt to the CPU of the

NUMA node where the physical NIC is

located.

Commercial use -

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Supported Mainstream Cloud Platform Software

in ChinaKey Industry Cloud Software Partner Product

Government, finance, and carrier H3C

CloudOS V5

CAS V7

OneStor (Ongoing)

Government, finance

Tencent Cloud

TCE v3.41

TStack

BlueKing Enterprise Edition V1.2

Baidu Cloud ABC Stack (Ongoing)

Jingdong Cloud Jingdong Cloud Agile Private Cloud V1

Kingsoft Cloud Kingsoft Cloud Private Cloud Platform V3.0

UCloud UCloud Stack v1.7

Winhong CNwareKV Service Virtualization 3.2

Government/Public safety

Alibaba CloudDedicated Cloud Agile Edition V3.1

Dedicated Cloud Enterprise Edition V3

SangforSangfor aCloud V5.0

Sangfor sCloud V5.0

Finance

EasyStackECS Stack V5

ECS Private Cloud V5

QingCloudQingCloud V4.3

KubeSphere® V2.1

Rancher Rancher 2.x

GovernmentBingoCloud Infrastructure Cloud Resource Management Software V8.0

Huayun ArcherOS 2020

XC CETC Cloud Nexus (Ongoing)

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HUAWEI CLOUD Hybrid Cloud Platform Running

on Kunpeng

Cloud

platform

Cloud

services

Kunpeng

Kunpeng servers Storage Network

Hi1822

Management

nodes

Management

VM

KVM

Compute nodes

UVP Euler host OS

NeoKylin

VM

OpenStack

EulerOS

VM

EVS

UVP Euler host

OS

Network nodes

FusionStorageSAN

storage

UVP Euler host

OS

OpenStack components

Management

VM

KVM

...

OpenStack components

KVM

NE

VMNE

VM...

Huawei

UltraPathVBS

Deepin

VMs

CentOS

VM

BMS

nodes

Host OS

User

programs

Computing

service

Storage

service

Network

service

DR &

backup

service

Security

service

PaaS

service

Big data

service

Database

service

Management

service

Cloud services

Infrastructure

Other

Guest OSs

Image

service

Software Function Support

HCS

6.5.1/8.0

HUAWEI

CLOUD

hybrid

cloud

platform

• Hybrid deployment of

x86 and Kunpeng

servers

• Multi-cluster deployment

of containers

• DR HA in the

management zone of a

container; applications

deployed in multiple

AZs in a data zone

• Live migration of VMs

across CPUs in an AZ

• Converged SDN

• Co-deployment of

FusionStorage and SAN

within an AZ

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Kunpeng Multi-core Computing Architecture

Suitable for Elastic Cloud Platforms

Auto scaling

Multi-core computing

architecture (64 cores+)

VMs

constructed based on

physical cores

VMs

with higher density

Large resource pools with

multiple cores ensure higher

performance of the entire system.

Better isolation ensures higher

reliability.

Fewer servers reduce CAPEX.

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Hybrid Deployment (1)

Hybrid deployment of Kunpeng and x86 AZs in a region on the OpenStack+KVM cloud

platform

Global

RegionAZ1

Management

nodes

Kunpeng

server

Network

nodes

Kunpeng

servers

AZ2

Compute nodes

Kunpeng servers

Storage nodes

Kunpeng servers

Compute nodes

x86 servers

Storage nodes

x86 servers

New deployment based on Kunpeng

• Hybrid deployment of independent Kunpeng and x86 AZs

in a region

• Management nodes and network nodes use Kunpeng

servers only (hybrid deployment not supported).

Global

RegionAZ1

Management

nodes

x86 servers

Network

nodes

x86 servers

AZ2

Compute nodes

x86 servers

Storage nodes

x86 servers

Compute nodes

Kunpeng servers

Storage nodes

Kunpeng servers

Capacity expansion based on the

x86 cluster

• The original x86 AZ remains unchanged, and AZs

composed of only Kunpeng servers are added.

• Management nodes and network nodes do not support

hybrid deployment. The original x86 architecture remains

unchanged.

Notes: Hybrid deployment requires OpenStack Stein or HCS 6.5.1 & 8.0.

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Hybrid Deployment (2)

Hybrid deployment of Kunpeng and x86 servers is supported on the Node nodes of the

Docker-K8s cloud platform.

New deployment based on

Kunpeng

• The Master node uses the Kunpeng server.

• The Node nodes support hybrid deployment of

Kunpeng and x86 servers.

Capacity expansion based on the

x86 cluster

Note: Hybrid deployment requires Kubernetes 1.15.2 or later and Docker 18.09.8 or later.

Master

Kunpeng servers

Node

Kunpeng

servers

Node

Kunpeng

servers

Node

x86 servers

Node

Kunpeng

servers

• The Master node originally deployed on the x86 servers

remains unchanged.

• The added Node nodes use Kunpeng servers and hybrid

deployment of nodes in a cluster.

Master

x86 servers

Node

x86 servers

Node

Kunpeng

servers

Node

Kunpeng

servers

Node

x86 servers

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Summary: Why Kunpeng?

• Ecosystem enablement:

Supports open-source KVM, Docker, HUAWEI CLOUD hybrid cloud, and mainstream commercial

cloud platforms in China.

• Better performance:

Kunpeng multi-core architecture supports more VMs to be created on a device.

• Higher stability:

VMs based on physical cores have small performance deterioration in high-load scenarios.

• Reduced CAPEX:

A smaller number of server clusters are required to build VMs of the same scale.

• Smooth scaling:

Hybrid deployment of Kunpeng and x86 servers implements smooth scaling of clusters on the live

network.

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