Qlogic 3400 Series User Manual

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1 83840-546-02 B1 IntroductionThis chapter describes the audience for this guide and outlines the OpenStackarchitecture.AudienceThis guide is intended for OpenStack (Juno, Kilo, Liberty, and Mitaka) users whowant to configure single root input/output virtualization (SR-IOV) with the QLogic3400/8400/45000 Series Adapters.What is OpenStack?The OpenStack project is an open source cloud computing platform that supportsall types of cloud environments and works as infrastructure as a service (IAAS).The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects that control pools ofprocessing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center, whichusers manage through a web-based dashboard, command line tools, orrepresentational state transfer (REST) APIs.OpenStack (starting with Juno) adds inbox support to request virtual machine(VM) access to the virtual network through SR-IOV NIC. With the introduction ofSR-IOV-based NICs, each SR-IOV port is associated with virtual functions (VFs).SR-IOV ports are provided by hardware-based virtual Ethernet bridging (HWVEB).NOTEAt the time of publication, support for the 45000 Series Adapters is limited tothe FastLinQ™ QL4521x 25GbE Adapters.