Key Features

  • Dual fabric software-defined networking (SDN) solution.
  • Hyperfast, hyperscalable bandwidth built on InfiniBand Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA).
  • Live attach/detach of IP addresses and networks from Instances.
  • High-availability IP addresses.

Flexibility

Network interfaces, private IP addresses, and public IP addresses can be created, attached, detached, and rearranged from the portal and API built into HyperCloud, even when Instances are still running.

Hyperscale Networking

HyperCloud utilities a dual fabric software-defined network (SDN) solution to provide hyperfast, hyperscalable bandwidth.

The Ethernet SDN is constructed from a custom platform built on top of existing SDN components, as well as existing hyperscale-switching infrastructure. This is deployed for external cross connects, cross connects into bandwidth partners, networking for dedicated servers, hybrid and private cloud connectivity, and for legacy workloads.

The InfiniBand SDN is constructed from a custom platform built on top of InfiniBand Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA). InfiniBand is significantly faster, more robust, and lower latency than Ethernet; at almost 0.5tbit/second per physical NIC. RDMA unlocks those very high speeds through hardware acceleration of certain operations, removing the otherwise prohibitive CPU overhead.

For these reasons InfiniBand is the interconnect of choice for High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters worldwide, as well as HyperCloud to provide the high throughput, consistent performance needed for high performance cloud customers demand and expect.

Live Attach/Detach IPs and Networks

It's possible through the use of the HyperCloud SDN platform to completely automate network management operations. These include live attach, detach, and rearranging of IP addresses, network interfaces, and entire networks. This allows for the fully automated deployment of virtual routers on HyperCloud, which is prohibitive to impossible on other platforms.

High-Availability IP Addresses

The SDN platform allows for groups of Instances (usually Instances in a HA group), to ‘share’ an IP address. This allows for rapid failover in the case of hardware or network failure, or during maintenance windows of one or more of the constituent Instances.

Instances can be added and removed from HA groups easily through the Instances screen in the HyperCloud portal, even if Instances are already running.