VXLAN is very fast. We've been testing it in our lab for our next gen platform. Note that the VXLAN implementation in CloudStack today was built with KVM support only and uses the native linux VXLAN support (with multicast).
As Remi pointed out, other options for you include Nicira (VMware NSX MH) and we've also been investigating Nuage (uses VXLAN and MPLS over GRE under the covers). - Si ________________________________________ From: Remi Bergsma <rberg...@schubergphilis.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 1:22 PM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: GRE Isolation Performance Hi David, I haven’t used GRE myself, but I do know that performance wise you need something that offloads to the nic, as with vlan tagging (instead of having the cpu do all the work). Did you consider VXLAN? That has nic offloading support in most nics these days. We are using STT (also does offloading) with Nicira and it is very fast. If I had to build again, I’d investigate VXLAN. Regards, Remi On 04/11/15 12:31, "David Amorín" <david.amo...@adderglobal.com> wrote: >Hi all, >We are working in an environment with CS 4.5.2 / XenServer 6.5 with multiple >zones (Spain and Netherlands) using GRE Isolation and we have some concerns >that we would like to share with you. Basically, we make a CPU benchmark >between VLAN isolation and GRE isolation and the results show us that the >consumption of CPU with GRE isolation is too much compared with VLAN isolation. > > >Can anyone share with us the experience working with GRE isolation? > > >We are not sure if this configuration in production will be safe, scalable and >with an acceptable level of performance. > > >Thanks, > > >David > > > > > > > > > > >
