Virtualization Architecture & KVM
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This document discusses KVM virtualization and why it is considered the best platform. It states that KVM provides high performance, strong security through EAL4+ certification and SE Linux, and can save customers up to 70% on costs compared to other solutions. It also supports various operating systems and works with Red Hat products like OpenStack and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for managing virtualization. Charts are included showing KVM outperforming VMware on benchmark tests using different CPU core counts.
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Virtualization Architecture & KVM
- 1. devconf.cz 2014 Virtualization Architecture & KVM Pradeep Kumar Surisetty < [email protected]> Principal Software Engineer
- 2. Why we believe KVM is the best virtualization platform Performance KVM holds the Top 6/11 virtual machine consolidation scores on SPECvirt (1) Security EAL4+ Certification (3) plus SE Linux enabling Mandatory Access Control between virtual machines Lower Cost customers report up to 70% savings by using KVM(2) Cloud & Virtualization Management Red Hat Open Stack for Cloud Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for data- center Virtualization (1) Source: SpecVirt_sc2010 results: http://www.spec.org/virt_sc2010/results/specvirt_sc2010_perf.html (2) Source: Case study on Canary Islands Government migration from VMware to RHEV: http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/case-studies/canary-islands-government-migrates-telecommunications-platform-from- vmware-to-red-hat (3) Source: http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industry/government/certifications.html (4) Source: http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/articles/enterprise-linux-virtualization-support Cross Platform Support and certification for leading x86_64 operating systems including RHEL and Microsoft Windows (4)
- 3. VMware ESX 4.1 HP DL380 G7 (12 Cores, 78 VMs) RHEL 6 (KVM) IBM HS22V (12 Cores, 84 VMs) VMware ESXi 5.0 HP DL385 G7 (16 Cores, 102 VMs) RHEV 3.1 HP DL380p gen8 (16 Cores,150 VMs) VMware ESXi 4.1 HP BL620c G7 (20 Cores, 120 VMs) RHEL 6 (KVM) IBM HX5 w/ MAX5 (20 Cores, 132 VMs) VMware ESXi 4.1 HP DL380 G7 (12 Cores, 168 Vms) VMware ESXi 4.1 IBM x3850 X5 (40 Cores, 234 VMs) RHEL 6 (KVM) HP DL580 G7 (40 Cores, 288 VMs) RHEL 6 (KVM) IBM x3850 X5 (64 Cores,336 VMs) RHEL 6 (KVM) HP DL980 G7 (80 Cores, 552 VMs) 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 9,000 10,000 1,221 1,367 1,570 2,442 1,878 2,144 2,742 3,824 4,682 5,467 8,956 Best SPECvirt_sc2010 Scores by CPU Cores (As of May 30, 2013) System SPECvirt_sc2010score Comparison based on best performing Red Hat and VMware solutions by cpu core count published at www.spec.org as of May 17, 2013. SPEC® and the benchmark name SPECvir_sct® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. For more information about SPECvirt_sc2010, see www.spec.org/virt_sc2010/. 2-socket 16 2-socket 12 2-socket 20 4-socket 40 8-socket 64/80
- 6. Introducing KVM virtualization KVM hypervisor runs virtual machines on Linux hosts ➢ Mature on x86, recent progress on ARM and ppc Most popular and best supported hypervisor on OpenStack ➢ https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix Built in to Red Hat Enterprise Linux ➢ Qumranet startup created KVM, joined Red Hat in 2008
- 8. Virtualization goals How to Virtualize CPU? How to Virutalize Memory? How to Virtualize IO?
- 24. KVM I/O Architecture KernelKernel rxtx QEMUQEMU Virtual MachineVirtual Machine Tap Bridge KernelKernel QEMUQEMU Virtual MachineVirtual Machine Brid ge Ta p tx rx vhost KernelKernel tx rx Virtual MachineVirtual Machine QEMUQEMU Physical NIC Emulated Devices ● Native drivers ● Compatibility over performance Virtio Devices ● Paravirtualized ● Performance over compatibility Device Assignment ● Native drivers ● Compatibility and Performance
- 25. Full virtualization Para-virtualization Storage transport choices in KVM devconf.cz 2016
- 26. Storage transport choices in KVM ● Full virtualization : IDE, SATA, SCSI ● Good guest compatibility ● Lots of trap-and-emulate, bad performance ● Para virtualization: virtio-blk, virtio-scsi ● Efficient guest ↔ host communication through virtio ring buffer (virtqueue) ● Good performance ● Provide more virtualization friendly interface, higher performance. ● In AIO case, io_submit() is under the global mutex devconf.cz 2016
- 27. Storage transport choices in KVM ● Device assignment (Passthrough) ● Pass hardware to guest, high-end usage, high performance ● Limited Number of PCI Devices ● Hard for Live Migration devconf.cz 2016
- 29. Virt-Manager
- 30. Special Thanks to Andrew Theurer Stefan Hajnoczj
- 40. ● Handles all management and interaction with QEMU ● (VMs) are defined in Libvirt via XML; referred to a “domain” ● Translates XML to command line options for calling QEMU ● Become comfortable with ‘virsh’ ● Libvirt XML reference: http://tinyurl.com/libvirt-xml Libvirt API
- 49. KVM I/O Architecture KernelKernel rxtx QEMUQEMU Virtual MachineVirtual Machine Tap Bridge KernelKernel QEMUQEMU Virtual MachineVirtual Machine Brid ge Ta p tx rx vhost KernelKernel tx rx Virtual MachineVirtual Machine QEMUQEMU Physical NIC Emulated Devices ● Native drivers ● Compatibility over performance Virtio Devices ● Paravirtualized ● Performance over compatibility Device Assignment ● Native drivers ● Compatibility and Performance