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v21.03
Bare Metal Reference Architecture 21.03
Two new configuration profiles are defined with this release and will continue to evolve in future releases to meet workload needs.
* Regional Datacenter Configuration Profile - Central-office deployments currently tailored exclusively for Media Visual Processing workloads such as CDN Transcoding
* Access Configuration Profile - Far Edge deployments supporting access point or gateway type workloads
In addition, BMRA Release v21.03 has been updated to include support for the following technologies:
* Support for 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor
* Updated Intel® Ethernet 800 Series Network Adapters with Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP) profiles
* Support for Intel® Server GPU
* Support for Intel® Quick Assist Technology (Intel® QAT) drivers and services
* Added security with Intel® SGX Key Management
* Updated Power Management including support for Intel® Speed Select Technology – Core Power (Intel® SST-CP) and Intel® Speed Select Technology – Base Frequency (Intel® SST-BF)
* Updated Kubernetes version to 1.19.x
* Added Kubernetes Device Plugin for Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)
* Added Collectd plugins (unixsock, network)
* Added Grafana dashboards (cpu, disk, intel, ipmi, netlink, ovs, power, numa, hugepages, ethstats)
* Support for multiple Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) version options with custom patch support
* Support for Multiple SR-IOV driver assignments per physical function (PF)