Introduction

Nowadays, digital transformation is a challenge for enterprises in all industries around the world. Application modernization is the core of digital transformation. It helps enterprises attract customers, train employees, optimize operations, and improve products. As the IT infrastructure of digital transformation, cloud computing technologies have developed rapidly in recent years. Enterprises benefit greatly from the development of cloud computing technologies such as virtualization, cloud services, and containerization in their digital transformation. The continuous innovation of cloud computing relies largely on the rapid development of open source technologies and ecosystems. Open source cloud computing technologies such as QEMU-KVM, OpenStack, Docker, and Kubernetes have broken the siloed computing architecture that was once closed and inefficient, continuously enriching IT infrastructure, making user applications evolve towards being more agile and efficient, and accelerating digital transformation.

The Huawei Kunpeng BoostKit for Virtualization accelerates the transition to cloud computing. It has the following advantages:

• Eliminates dependency on x86 servers to provide more computing platform options and reduce service continuity risks.
• Multi-core processor architecture that features higher density, lower power consumption, higher cloud infrastructure computing capability, and lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Replaces the cloud computing infrastructure platform without affecting user experience.
• Hybrid deployment of x86 and Kunpeng for higher flexibility and scalability.

This document describes the architecture, application scenarios, software, hardware, and typical configurations of the Kunpeng BoostKit for Virtualization.