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Orchestration templates for Alces Flight appliances
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Include the ENA drivers for use with X1 instance type #17

Open vlj91 opened 7 years ago

vlj91 commented 7 years ago

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/elastic-network-adapter-high-performance-network-interface-for-amazon-ec2/

https://github.com/amzn/amzn-drivers

Some benchmarking of the performance enhancement should also be performed.

mjtko commented 7 years ago

Note: also for use with m4.16xlarge.

sierra-tango-echo commented 7 years ago

@wdm78 wil can you investigate/ talk to aws about the usefulness and stability of this plz. makes me nervous when a book shop starts messing around with kernel modules 😐

wdm78 commented 7 years ago

The ENA driver they're using looks like a repackaged version of Intel's 82599 VF chipset driver, which we use all the time for 10Gb cards. It looks like new instances will come out with 20Gb onboard, so we'll need this driver (or the Intel version) in order to use that. If we can get two m4.16xlarge instances running with the driver, then we can test performance/stability -

mjtko commented 7 years ago

Possible DKMS approach for installation documented here: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking-ena.html

vlj91 commented 7 years ago

Also for use with the p2.16xlarge instance type