High-Performance Block Volumes in Virtual Cloud Environment

Explore a technical conference presentation from SNIA SDC 2024 that delves into achieving high-performance block volumes within virtual cloud environments. Learn about various volume passthrough approaches including vhost, vhost-user-blk, vfio-usr, NVMe/TCP, and NVMe/RDMA, while understanding their implementation challenges and solutions. Examine detailed performance metrics and bottleneck analyses that demonstrate how to achieve performance levels of tens and hundreds of Gbps and several million IOPS using minimal CPU cores in virtual machines. Gain insights into the critical role of DPUs in enhancing block volume performance, along with practical implementation strategies and best practices. Master the ability to evaluate and select the most suitable volume passthrough approach for specific use cases while learning to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in virtual machine environments.