What's New

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Migrated documents.

Migrated the feature guides from the basic acceleration feature and application acceleration feature sections to the Boost-X application acceleration documentation site.

BoostVirt

WAAS

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Added the Istio 1.23.4 installation guide (openEuler 24.03 LTS SP2).

Provides guidance for enabling the Istio sidecar mode and benchmark tests on Kunpeng servers.

Istio Installation Guide

2

Added the Virt-awaresched User Guide.

Describes how to use Virt-awaresched in common scenarios.

Virt-awaresched User Guide

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Added the Cloud Native Scenario KAE Device Plugin User Guide.

Provides operation instructions on the KAE device plugin for cloud native scenarios.

Cloud Native Scenario KAE Device Plugin User Guide

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Added the Cloud Native Scenario KAE Device Plugin Release Notes.

Describes the version release and mapping information of the KAE device plugin for cloud native scenarios.

Cloud Native Scenario KAE Device Plugin Release Notes

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Added MPAM-enabled libvirt user documents.

Provides operation instructions for MPAM-enabled libvirt.

MPAM-enabled libvirt User Guide

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Added Virtualization WAAS Booster user documents.

Provides guidance on how to deploy, enable, and use WAAS Booster.

WAAS Booster User Guide

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Updated the Cloud Native Scenario Kubernetes SR-IOV Device Plugin User Guide.

Added support for the SR-IOV-CNI network plugin and Bond-CNI plugin.

Cloud Native Scenario Kubernetes SR-IOV Device Plugin User Guide

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Updated the Kubernetes Topology Affinity Plugin User Guide.

• Added support for the topology-aware policy.
• Added support for the containerd runtime.

Kubernetes Topology Affinity Plugin User Guide (Docker+Containerd)

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Updated the Virtualization MPAM Plugin User Guide.

Added the section "Using Dynamic MPAM Isolation."

Virtualization MPAM Plugin User Guide

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Added the Virtualization Scenario vKAE Passthrough Live Migration Feature Guide.

Added live migration to address the scenario where VMs are configured with KAE passthrough devices, offering enhanced operational flexibility and continuous service availability.

Virtualization Scenario vKAE Passthrough Live Migration Feature Guide

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Added the PMU Virtualization Feature Guide.

With PMU virtualization enabled, you can use the perf tool to collect VM PMU events for performance analysis and optimization.

PMU Virtualization Feature Guide

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Added the Virtualization Scenario Topology Optimization Guide.

Provides optimization methods for improving VM performance by binding VM vCPUs to physical CPU cores and implementing VM vCPU topology configuration.

Virtualization Scenario Topology Optimization Guide

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Added the Kunpeng Virtualization Loss Optimization Guide.

Provides guidance for reducing the virtualization loss of network and storage applications in the KVM-based virtualization scenario of Kunpeng servers.

Kunpeng Virtualization Loss Optimization Guide

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Added the Cloud Native Scenario Kubernetes SR-IOV Device Plugin User Guide.

Added the deployment and usage guide of the Kubernetes SR-IOV device passthrough plugin.

Cloud Native Scenario Kubernetes SR-IOV Device Plugin User Guide

2

Added the Kubernetes NUMA Affinity Scheduling Plugin User Guide (Docker).

The Kubernetes NUMA affinity scheduling plugin provides the Topology Affinity Plugin (TAP) for Docker to be compatible with the Docker container runtime in Kubernetes clusters of earlier versions.

Kubernetes NUMA Affinity Scheduling Plugin User Guide (Docker)

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Added the Virtualization Scheduling Optimization Feature Guide.

Added the usage guide of the virtualization scheduling optimization feature to accelerate the CPU scheduling efficiency of applications in VMs.

Virtualization Scheduling Optimization Feature Guide

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Added the Virtualization Scenario Topology Awareness Feature Guide.

Added the environment requirements, enabling method, and test guide for topology awareness in virtualization scenarios.

Virtualization Scenario Topology Awareness Feature Guide

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Added the Virtualization Scenario KAE Accelerated Live Migration Feature Guide.

Added the environment requirements for KAE hardware compression and decompression to accelerate VM migration, and provided guidance for deploying and enabling the KAE and testing the KAE-enabled live migration.

Virtualization Scenario KAE Accelerated Live Migration Feature Guide

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Added the Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Acceleration Feature Guide.

Added the operation guide for enabling the direct interrupt injection for VMs on Kunpeng servers running openEuler to improve the VM acceleration performance.

Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Acceleration Feature Guide

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Updated the OpenStack Train Deployment Guide, OpenStack Train & Ceph Integrated Deployment Guide, OpenStack Wallaby Deployment Guide, and OpenStack Wallaby & Ceph Integrated Deployment Guide.

Added the support for openEuler 22.03 LTS SP4.

OpenStack Train Deployment Guide (openEuler 22.03)

OpenStack Train & Ceph Integrated Deployment Guide (openEuler 22.03)

OpenStack Wallaby Deployment Guide (openEuler 22.03)

OpenStack Wallaby & Ceph Integrated Deployment Guide (openEuler 22.03)

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Updated the Kubernetes Deployment Guide.

Added the support for openEuler 22.03 LTS SP4.

Kubernetes Deployment Guide (CentOS & openEuler)

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Updated the KubeSphere Deployment Guide.

Added the support for openEuler 22.03 LTS SP4.

KubeSphere Deployment Guide

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Added the Tuning Guide for Typical Scenarios.

Provided tuning guide for typical virtualization service scenarios, including MySQL, Redis, and Nginx.

Tuning Guide for Typical Scenarios

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Added the QEMU VM Memory Hotplug Feature Guide.

Added the operation guide for deploying and enabling the QEMU VM memory hotplug feature on a Kunpeng server running the openEuler OS.

QEMU VM Memory Hotplug Feature Guide

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Added the Kubernetes NUMA Affinity Scheduling Plugin Feature Guide.

Added the operation guide for deploying and using the Kubernetes NUMA affinity scheduling plugin on servers running the openEuler OS.

Kubernetes NUMA Affinity Scheduling Plugin Feature Guide

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Added the KubeSphere Deployment Guide.

Added the operation guide for deploying and using KubeSphere on a Kunpeng server running the openEuler OS.

KubeSphere Deployment Guide

2

Updated the QEMU-KVM VM Installation Guide.

Updated the OS version from openEuler 22.03 LTS SP2 to openEuler 22.03 LTS SP3.

QEMU-KVM VM Installation Guide (openEuler 22.03)

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Updated the Kubernetes Deployment Guide, K8s & Ceph Integrated Deployment Guide, and Kubernetes Topology Manager Patch Installation Guide.

Added support for openEuler 22.03 in the Kubernetes Deployment Guide, K8s & Ceph Integrated Deployment Guide, and Kubernetes Topology Manager Patch Installation Guide.

Kubernetes Deployment Guide (CentOS & openEuler)

K8s & Ceph Integrated Deployment Guide (CentOS & openEuler)

Kubernetes Topology Manager Patch Installation Guide (openEuler 22.03)

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Added the Kunpeng oVirt Lightweight Virtualization Management Platform Deployment Guide (openEuler 22.03).

Added the operation guide for installing and deploying the oVirt-engine service and the oVirt cluster on a Kunpeng server running openEuler 22.03.

Kunpeng oVirt Lightweight Virtualization Management Platform Deployment Guide (openEuler 22.03)

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Added the OpenStack Stein VM and BMS Hybrid Deployment Guide (CentOS 7.6).

Added the guide for installing OpenStack Stein on a Kunpeng server running CentOS 7.6.

OpenStack Stein VM and BMS Hybrid Deployment Guide (CentOS 7.6)

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Added the OpenStack Train Deployment Guide, OpenStack Train & Ceph Integrated Deployment Guide, OpenStack Wallaby Deployment Guide, and OpenStack Wallaby & Ceph Integrated Deployment Guide.

• Added the operation guides for deploying OpenStack Train and Wallaby on Kunpeng servers running openEuler 22.03.
• Added the operation guides for integrating OpenStack Train and Wallaby with Ceph on Kunpeng servers running openEuler 22.03.

OpenStack Train Deployment Guide (openEuler 22.03)

OpenStack Train & Ceph Integrated Deployment Guide (openEuler 22.03)

OpenStack Wallaby Deployment Guide (openEuler 22.03)

OpenStack Wallaby & Ceph Integrated Deployment Guide (openEuler 22.03)

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Added the QEMU-KVM VM Installation Guide.

• Added the guide for installing QEMU-KVM VMs on Kunpeng servers running openEuler 22.03.
• Combined the KVM VM Installation Guide (CentOS 7.6 & CentOS 8.1 & openEuler 20.03) and QEMU Installation Guide into the Kunpeng BoostKit for Virtualization QEMU-KVM VM Installation and Tuning Guides.

KVM VM Installation and Tuning Guides (CentOS 7.6 & CentOS 8.1 & openEuler 20.03)

QEMU Installation Guide

QEMU-KVM VM Installation Guide (openEuler 22.03)

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Added the cluster scheduling tuning feature.

By adding the option for cluster task scheduling tuning of the operating system (OS) kernel, cross-cluster thread scheduling can be prevented and L3 cache tag resources can be reused, improving the CPU scheduling efficiency and memory bandwidth utilization of multi-thread applications. It also leverages hardware resources more efficiently, increases the system throughput, and speeds up responses to requests.

Kunpeng BoostKit for Virtualization Technical White Paper

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Updated the Virtualization Performance Tuning Guide.

• Added the cluster tuning and SPECjvm tuning content for openEuler 22.03 to the Virtualization Performance Tuning Guide.
• Changed the Virtualization Performance Tuning Guide to the Basic Tuning Guide (CentOS 7.6 & openEuler 20.03).

Basic Tuning Guide (CentOS 7.6 & openEuler 20.03)

Cluster Tuning Guide (openEuler 22.03)

SPECjvm Tuning Guide (openEuler 22.03)

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Adapted the oVirt management platform to openEuler 20.03.

Added the guide for deploying the oVirt lightweight virtualization management platform on openEuler 20.03.

Kunpeng oVirt Lightweight Virtualization Management Platform Deployment Guide (openEuler 20.03)

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Added a new feature high-performance cloud disk.

The high-performance cloud disk uses the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) + Ceph solution of BoostKit to accelerate Ceph storage clients in virtualization scenarios, improving I/O read and write capabilities.

High-Performance Cloud Disk Feature Guide

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Added Kunpeng BoostKit for Virtualization documents of earlier versions.

Added the Version Mapping, guide pages for historical versions, and documents of historical versions.

Guide pages for historical versions

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Added new features.

Added section "Features" to the Technical White Paper, including features such as OVS flow table normalization, Mellanox OVS flow table NIC acceleration, SP680 OVS flow table NIC acceleration, and SP680 live VM migration in the VirtIO passthrough scenario.

Kunpeng BoostKit for Virtualization Technical White Paper

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Adapted some components to the openEuler OS.

Added the installation and deployment guides for components such as libvirt, Open vSwitch, QEMU, and OpenStack Train on openEuler.

libvirt 6.9.0 Installation Guide (openEuler 20.03)

Open vSwitch 2.14.2 Installation Guide (openEuler 20.03)

QEMU 5.0.0 Installation Guide (openEuler 20.03)

OpenStack Train Deployment Guide (openEuler 20.03)

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Adapted some components to CentOS 8.1 and openEuler 20.03.

Added the installation and deployment guides of Containerd, Istio, and Prometheus on CentOS 8.1 and openEuler 20.03.

Containerd 1.4 Installation Guide (CentOS 8.1 and openEuler 20.03)

Istio Installation Guide (CentOS 8.1 and openEuler 20.03)

Prometheus Installation Guide (CentOS 8.1 & openEuler 20.03)

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Integrated documents of the same components and features.

Documents with repeated contents are optimized and simplified to provide better reading experience and more convenient guidance.

OVS Flow Table Normalization Feature Guide

OVS Flow Table NIC Acceleration Feature Guide

Docker 19.03.10 Installation Guide (CentOS & openEuler)

Kubernetes 1.18.20 Deployment Guide (CentOS & openEuler)

Open vSwitch 2.12.0 Installation Guide (CentOS & openEuler)

Calico 3.13.1 Installation Guide (CentOS & openEuler)

KVM VM Installation Guide (CentOS & openEuler)

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Optimized the document structure.

The installation, deployment, tuning, and feature guides are displayed by basic acceleration feature, system tuning guide, and open-source enablement, facilitating locating of required documents.

All documents of the solution

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Adapted some components to CentOS 8.1.

Added the guides for installing and deploying components such as libvirtd, Open vSwitch, and Kubernetes on CentOS 8.1.

• libvirtd 5.6.0 Installation Guide (CentOS 8.1)
• Open vSwitch 2.13.1 Installation Guide (CentOS 8.1)
• K8s 1.18.20 Deployment Guide (CentOS 8.1)

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Adapted some components to CentOS 8.1.

Added the guides for installing components such as Calico, Docker, and QEMU on CentOS 8.1.

Calico 3.13.1 Installation Guide (CentOS 8.1)

Docker 19.03.10 Installation Guide (CentOS 8.1)

QEMU 4.2.1 Installation Guide (CentOS 8.1)