Launch a virtual machine with workload acceleration
After you created a specific VM flavor as described in
Create a workload-accelerated instance flavor and configured an SR-IOV port as
described in Create a network port for SR-IOV (for SR-IOV only),
you can launch a virtual machine that supports DPDK and SR-IOV
NFV features.
To launch a virtual machine with workload acceleration:
- Log in to Horizon.
- On the Source screen, select a virtual machine template in
QCOW2 format.
- On the Flavor screen, select a flavor that has
workload-accelerated features enabled.
- Select from the following options:
- If you want to use DPDK, on the Networks screen, select the
admin_internal_net
.
- If you want to use SR-IOV, on the Network Ports screen,
select the SR-IOV port that you have created in
Create a network port for SR-IOV.
- Launch the instance.
- Proceed to Allocate a floating IP address to a virtual machine.