NFV workloads pose challenges for IIAS providers. Learn how hardware performance enhancements (DPA&EPA) by Intel, integrated with virtualization providers, can be an NFV enabler, and how advanced orchestration by TOSCA and Cloudify can put the right VNF on the right hardware and coordinate complex deployments.
L4-L7 services for SDN and NVF by Youcef Laribibuildacloud
In this talk, we will discuss how L4-L7 devices can integrate in various SDN architectures, discuss benefits and some of the challenges that such integration represents. We will also talk about how SDN and NFV relate, and what are the different challenges to successfully deploy L4-L7 devices as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) or provide such services to the NFV Infrastructure (VIM).
Bio
Youcef Laribi is a Principal Architect in the Delivery Networks BU at Citrix. He is responsible for driving the integration projects of the NetScaler ADC product with several Cloud, SDN and Automation environments including OpenStack, CloudStack, VMware NSX and Cisco ACI. He is also the Citrix representative on the OpenDaylight Technical Steering Committee. His background is mainly in Operating Systems and Distributed Systems, and he worked on several middleware technologies from DCE and CORBA in the early days, to J2EE and .NET to SOA and micro-services today. Youcef speaks 4 languages and holds a PhD and an MSc in Computer Science from the French INPG Institute in Grenoble, France.
NFV Orchestration for Telcos using OpenStack TackerSridhar Ramaswamy
ETSI MANO NFV Orchestration for Telco Service Providers using OpenStack Tacker project. Showcases integration of Tacker to orchestrate Brocade VNFs like 5600 Virtual Router and Connectem vEPC.
Open Source, Open Architecture, Open Standards NFV MANOCloudify Community
MANO, the management and orchestration layer in NFV, is a critical element for the success of NFV deployments.
This talk will focus on three important aspects for effectively implementing MANO in an open source manner, to enable the easy migration and management of networks in any cloud:
- Open source, community-based orchestration such as Open-O and ARIA
- Open architecture using technology agnostic principles
- Open standards for modeling and orchestration (such as TOSCA)
In this talk, I will explain how to use open source tools to migrate networks to the cloud and demo NFV orchestration with TOSCA in a multi-VIM environment.
Tech Talk by Louis Fourie: SFC: technology, trend and implementationnvirters
Synopsis
In this Tech Talk, Louis Fourie will do deep dive into one of the key technology enablers -- service function chaining and describe extensions to OpenStack networking (Neutron) for service chaining, including use cases, architecture and implementation.
About Louis Fourie
Louis Fourie is currently a senior staff engineer working on network virtualization, cloud services, and SDN technologies at Huawei Technology, USA. Louis is an active contributor to the service chaining work in several organizations including OpenStack, ONF, ETSI NFV, IETF, and OPNFV. Louis previously worked at Cisco on several computer networking, voice and data communications products, and is the holder of several patents.
Deploy TOSCA Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Workloads in OpenStackSahdev Zala
Talk was given at the OpenStack Austin Summit 2016 and demonstrates how TOSCA Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) workloads can be deployed in OpenStack cloud.
L4-L7 services for SDN and NVF by Youcef Laribibuildacloud
In this talk, we will discuss how L4-L7 devices can integrate in various SDN architectures, discuss benefits and some of the challenges that such integration represents. We will also talk about how SDN and NFV relate, and what are the different challenges to successfully deploy L4-L7 devices as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) or provide such services to the NFV Infrastructure (VIM).
Bio
Youcef Laribi is a Principal Architect in the Delivery Networks BU at Citrix. He is responsible for driving the integration projects of the NetScaler ADC product with several Cloud, SDN and Automation environments including OpenStack, CloudStack, VMware NSX and Cisco ACI. He is also the Citrix representative on the OpenDaylight Technical Steering Committee. His background is mainly in Operating Systems and Distributed Systems, and he worked on several middleware technologies from DCE and CORBA in the early days, to J2EE and .NET to SOA and micro-services today. Youcef speaks 4 languages and holds a PhD and an MSc in Computer Science from the French INPG Institute in Grenoble, France.
NFV Orchestration for Telcos using OpenStack TackerSridhar Ramaswamy
ETSI MANO NFV Orchestration for Telco Service Providers using OpenStack Tacker project. Showcases integration of Tacker to orchestrate Brocade VNFs like 5600 Virtual Router and Connectem vEPC.
Open Source, Open Architecture, Open Standards NFV MANOCloudify Community
MANO, the management and orchestration layer in NFV, is a critical element for the success of NFV deployments.
This talk will focus on three important aspects for effectively implementing MANO in an open source manner, to enable the easy migration and management of networks in any cloud:
- Open source, community-based orchestration such as Open-O and ARIA
- Open architecture using technology agnostic principles
- Open standards for modeling and orchestration (such as TOSCA)
In this talk, I will explain how to use open source tools to migrate networks to the cloud and demo NFV orchestration with TOSCA in a multi-VIM environment.
Tech Talk by Louis Fourie: SFC: technology, trend and implementationnvirters
Synopsis
In this Tech Talk, Louis Fourie will do deep dive into one of the key technology enablers -- service function chaining and describe extensions to OpenStack networking (Neutron) for service chaining, including use cases, architecture and implementation.
About Louis Fourie
Louis Fourie is currently a senior staff engineer working on network virtualization, cloud services, and SDN technologies at Huawei Technology, USA. Louis is an active contributor to the service chaining work in several organizations including OpenStack, ONF, ETSI NFV, IETF, and OPNFV. Louis previously worked at Cisco on several computer networking, voice and data communications products, and is the holder of several patents.
Deploy TOSCA Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Workloads in OpenStackSahdev Zala
Talk was given at the OpenStack Austin Summit 2016 and demonstrates how TOSCA Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) workloads can be deployed in OpenStack cloud.
Summit 16: How to Compose a New OPNFV Solution Stack?OPNFV
This session showcases how a new OPNFV solution stack (a.k.a. ""scenario"") is composed and stood up. We'll use a new solution stack framed around a new software forwarder (""VPP"") provided by the FD.io project as example for this session. The session discusses how an evolution/change of upstream components from OpenStack, OpenDaylight and FFD.io are put in place for the scenario, how installers and tests need to be evolved to allow for integration into OPNFV's continuous integration, deployment and test pipeline.
This Intel Network Builders Webinar is on Carrier-class environments for NFV lifecycle management. Communications service providers see the strong business upside from deploying NFV-based services. NFV promises to lower costs, simplify network operations, and usher in a new era of rapid service innovation. However, there are still concerns about running mission-critical, revenue- generating network functions as software applications on general purpose compute platforms rather than purpose-built appliances.
Intel, Wind River and Overture explore what is required to create a carrier grade, high-performance environment for hosting virtual network functions (VNFs).
Learn how to:
• Create a high-performance, high reliability NFV infrastructure
• Identify essential attributes needed for carrier-class management and orchestration
• Optimize the placement of VNFs and the benefits of distributed and centralized models • Support the complete service life cycle in a VNF-agnostic service environment
OPNFV: Overview and Approach to Upstream IntegrationOPNFV
The OPNFV project—a common integration and testing platform to facilitate NFV deployments that defines a consistent, functional stack—differs from more traditional code-based open source projects in that its work is focused upstream. Rather than re-event many wheels, the project leverages a variety of existing code bases from leading open source projects across compute, storage, and networking and fills gaps where needed to meet strict carrier-grade end user requirements. This approach is difficult and requires an extremely complicated set of requirements, but the result is a much needed common, de facto platform for the industry to test and build NFV products and services. OPNFV director Heather Kirksey spoke during LinuxCon North America 2016 on why the community chose to take this integrated approach, what’s been successful, and key lessons learned from this unique project.
OPNFV VIM integrates control and management components from upstream projects such as openstack, ONOS, ODL, etc. While huge success has been achieved in OPNFV for integration, automated build and deployment, the performance of VIM for controlling and managing virtual network has received little attention. This presentation is to address the VIM performance related to the network part of the infrastructure. Based on a Telco use case, we define performance metrics for SDN controller, northbound communication channels, and network provisioning. ONOSFW and OpenStack are two components for VIM. Test data is collected and analyzed for performance evaluation and suggestions for future improvements. China Unicom, ON.LAB and Huawei jointly define the use case and methodology, do analysis, and produce results.
We are working on KVM enhancements for NFV as a collaborative development project in OPNFV, focusing on three key features: minimal Interrupt latency variation, inter-VM (Virtual Machine) communication, and fast live migration. In this presentation, we introduce and provide an update on the project, and how we plan to work with the upstream KVM project.
Minimal Interrupt latency variation is required for data plane VNFs to achieve deterministic execution. We present an update, demonstrating how hardware and software enhancements can help when reducing latency variations.
We evaluate and compare the options for inter-VM communication (e.g. ivshmem, vhost user, VMFUNC, etc.) in terms of performance, interface/API, usability/programing model, security, and maintenance.
Finally we provide and update on fast live migration, including improvements with time to co
ARIA is an agile reference implementation of automation based on OASIS TOSCA Specification. It is a framework for implementing orchestration software and a command line tool to execute TOSCA based application blueprints.
OpenStack and OVS: From Love-Hate to Match Made in HeavenOPNFV
Many OPNFV developers building Openstack clouds at scale have a “love-hate” relationship with OVS. They love the flexibility and elasticity offered by a distributed virtual switch operating within each server, but hate the reality of first-gen OVS implementations well-known to be a bottleneck for cloud network performance and scalability. As performance-sensitive VNFs keep pushing for higher data forwarding performance across the NFV network infrastructure, it becomes critical to improve OVS performance without compromising flexibility, network programmability, and cost.
In this session, Mellanox will present a novel way to offload the entire OVS dataplane onto the embedded switch in the server NIC. This approach can not only boost server I/O performance to near line-rate, be it 10G, 40G, or 100G, but also doing so at a fraction of the CPU load needed by existing OVS implementation.
The next generation mobile network will be built on open source software. It will be highly scalable, elastic, and extremely robust in order to handle the exponential increase in traffic including video, the IoT, and increasingly smarter devices. OPNFV will be the reference platform for operators to enable rapid deployment of new services, automated provisioning, security and a DevOps workflow for upgrades and maintenance. Huawei CTO Yingtao Li will speak about the next generation mobile architecture built on OPNFV and how it meets the needs of operators as they roll out new, software based networks.
My network functions are virtualized, but are they cloud-readyOPNFV
Ulas Kozat, Huawei, Yaoguang Wang, Huawei
In the first phase of telco-cloud vision, the physical network functions are targeted for virtualization and became Virtual Network Functions (VNF) decoupled from the specific hardware platform. As we dive into the second phase of the cloud era, the core need is to provide VNF implementations that can take advantage of what cloud has to offer in terms of utility based computing (a.k.a. scaling), availability, data durability, etc. To this end, we have been developing a VNF Performance Modeling framework for automatic characterization of a particular VNF implementation in terms of its cloud-readiness and its bottlenecks towards cloud-readiness. We will present the details of our performance modeling framework and show its utility based on the existing open source VNF implementations. The next frontier of telco-cloud vision is to develop cloud-native network functions and services. Thus, in the last part of our talk, we will cover the future evolution of the framework and discuss the needs, requirements, potential metrics for evaluating the cloud-nativeness of network functions.
Jan Lindblad's presentation at Layer123 SDN and OpenFlow World Congress in Bad Homburg, Germany. Focusing on a multi-vendor SDN deployment at a Tier 1 Service Provider in Asia.
Tail-f Network Control System (NCS) use case:
• Dynamic control of L3-L7 devices using service- oriented network API
• Service chaining using OpenFlow
• Virtualized appliances
With the 2.0 release of MAAS, we are delivering High Availability for both Region and Rack components of MAAS. This deck describes the MAAS architecture and how HA is implemented.
This presentations gives basic overview about networking and in depth insights about Openstack Neutron component.
Covers understanding on VLAN,VXLAN,Openstack vSwitch
NFV infrastructure will be distributed across multiple geo-locations, to place workload close to the end user for better user experience, and introduce some cross -site requirements like service chaining, high availability and disaster recovery. There are gaps in OpenStack in such geo-distributed clouds such as:
Support VNF high availability across OpenStack
Support Multisite VNF geo site-disaster recovery
Single unified view for operators
Multi-site quota management
Sync tenant resources like images, ssh-keys, security groups
Policy driven VNF placements
Optimized resource utilization
Dynamic Service Functions Chaining across sites
Several projects like OPNFV Multisite, Tacker, Kingbird and Tricircle projects have collaborated to address the requirements for NFV. In this session, come learn about:
Need for multisite in NFV
Gaps in OpenStack
Existing projects and solutions
Gaps in these solutions and what different teams are doing to fix it
Parser is an integration project in OPNFV and one of the candidate projects of OPNFV B Release. ETSI NFV offers a rich set of descriptors and deployment templates on different levels, thus it is vital for OPNFV as a platform to provide the capability of utilizing different templates for developers to work on. At its core, Parser provides such translation tooling that developers won't care too much about writing a "correct" script. They could write their templates/scripts in TOSCA or YANG or whatever they desire, and Parser would enable OPNFV to natively support all these types of scripts by translate them to the one that the main platform would use.
In this presentation the core team member of the Parser project, Howard Huang, Victor Hu, Vinayak Ram and Julien Zhang will share with you what and how we do in Parser project, and what nice features you would expect in the coming releases.
TOSCA and OpenTOSCA: TOSCA Introduction and OpenTOSCA Ecosystem OverviewOpenTOSCA
TOSCA is a new standard facilitating platform independent description
of Cloud applications.
OpenTOSCA is an open source TOSCA ecosystem including the modeling tool "Winery", the TOSCA runtime "OpenTOSCA", and the self-service portal "Vinothek".
Summit 16: Deploying Virtualized Mobile Infrastructures on OpenstackOPNFV
Service Provider is evolving and competing with leaner Over the Top Providers (OTP) providers such as Google and Amazon to provide mobile services. Furture SP network has ot be agile, resilient and auto salable. SPs are leaning towards using COTS infra, open networking (OPNFV, ONOS) and VNF to run routers, switches, mobile gateways, firewall, NAT, DPI functions. Session covers design and deployment of virtualizing the mobile infra such as Virtual Evolved Packet Core, GiLAN and VoLTE as well as 5G core. We will also cover performance fine tuning using DPDK, SR-IOV etc. WE will present case study using Cisco (VNF Manager and NFVO), Redhat (NFVI), Openstack and block storage using CEPH technology. Participants will be able to understand complexities of mobile packet core, evolution NFV based solution and architecture framework for 5G mobile packet core.
Summit 16: How to Compose a New OPNFV Solution Stack?OPNFV
This session showcases how a new OPNFV solution stack (a.k.a. ""scenario"") is composed and stood up. We'll use a new solution stack framed around a new software forwarder (""VPP"") provided by the FD.io project as example for this session. The session discusses how an evolution/change of upstream components from OpenStack, OpenDaylight and FFD.io are put in place for the scenario, how installers and tests need to be evolved to allow for integration into OPNFV's continuous integration, deployment and test pipeline.
This Intel Network Builders Webinar is on Carrier-class environments for NFV lifecycle management. Communications service providers see the strong business upside from deploying NFV-based services. NFV promises to lower costs, simplify network operations, and usher in a new era of rapid service innovation. However, there are still concerns about running mission-critical, revenue- generating network functions as software applications on general purpose compute platforms rather than purpose-built appliances.
Intel, Wind River and Overture explore what is required to create a carrier grade, high-performance environment for hosting virtual network functions (VNFs).
Learn how to:
• Create a high-performance, high reliability NFV infrastructure
• Identify essential attributes needed for carrier-class management and orchestration
• Optimize the placement of VNFs and the benefits of distributed and centralized models • Support the complete service life cycle in a VNF-agnostic service environment
OPNFV: Overview and Approach to Upstream IntegrationOPNFV
The OPNFV project—a common integration and testing platform to facilitate NFV deployments that defines a consistent, functional stack—differs from more traditional code-based open source projects in that its work is focused upstream. Rather than re-event many wheels, the project leverages a variety of existing code bases from leading open source projects across compute, storage, and networking and fills gaps where needed to meet strict carrier-grade end user requirements. This approach is difficult and requires an extremely complicated set of requirements, but the result is a much needed common, de facto platform for the industry to test and build NFV products and services. OPNFV director Heather Kirksey spoke during LinuxCon North America 2016 on why the community chose to take this integrated approach, what’s been successful, and key lessons learned from this unique project.
OPNFV VIM integrates control and management components from upstream projects such as openstack, ONOS, ODL, etc. While huge success has been achieved in OPNFV for integration, automated build and deployment, the performance of VIM for controlling and managing virtual network has received little attention. This presentation is to address the VIM performance related to the network part of the infrastructure. Based on a Telco use case, we define performance metrics for SDN controller, northbound communication channels, and network provisioning. ONOSFW and OpenStack are two components for VIM. Test data is collected and analyzed for performance evaluation and suggestions for future improvements. China Unicom, ON.LAB and Huawei jointly define the use case and methodology, do analysis, and produce results.
We are working on KVM enhancements for NFV as a collaborative development project in OPNFV, focusing on three key features: minimal Interrupt latency variation, inter-VM (Virtual Machine) communication, and fast live migration. In this presentation, we introduce and provide an update on the project, and how we plan to work with the upstream KVM project.
Minimal Interrupt latency variation is required for data plane VNFs to achieve deterministic execution. We present an update, demonstrating how hardware and software enhancements can help when reducing latency variations.
We evaluate and compare the options for inter-VM communication (e.g. ivshmem, vhost user, VMFUNC, etc.) in terms of performance, interface/API, usability/programing model, security, and maintenance.
Finally we provide and update on fast live migration, including improvements with time to co
ARIA is an agile reference implementation of automation based on OASIS TOSCA Specification. It is a framework for implementing orchestration software and a command line tool to execute TOSCA based application blueprints.
OpenStack and OVS: From Love-Hate to Match Made in HeavenOPNFV
Many OPNFV developers building Openstack clouds at scale have a “love-hate” relationship with OVS. They love the flexibility and elasticity offered by a distributed virtual switch operating within each server, but hate the reality of first-gen OVS implementations well-known to be a bottleneck for cloud network performance and scalability. As performance-sensitive VNFs keep pushing for higher data forwarding performance across the NFV network infrastructure, it becomes critical to improve OVS performance without compromising flexibility, network programmability, and cost.
In this session, Mellanox will present a novel way to offload the entire OVS dataplane onto the embedded switch in the server NIC. This approach can not only boost server I/O performance to near line-rate, be it 10G, 40G, or 100G, but also doing so at a fraction of the CPU load needed by existing OVS implementation.
The next generation mobile network will be built on open source software. It will be highly scalable, elastic, and extremely robust in order to handle the exponential increase in traffic including video, the IoT, and increasingly smarter devices. OPNFV will be the reference platform for operators to enable rapid deployment of new services, automated provisioning, security and a DevOps workflow for upgrades and maintenance. Huawei CTO Yingtao Li will speak about the next generation mobile architecture built on OPNFV and how it meets the needs of operators as they roll out new, software based networks.
My network functions are virtualized, but are they cloud-readyOPNFV
Ulas Kozat, Huawei, Yaoguang Wang, Huawei
In the first phase of telco-cloud vision, the physical network functions are targeted for virtualization and became Virtual Network Functions (VNF) decoupled from the specific hardware platform. As we dive into the second phase of the cloud era, the core need is to provide VNF implementations that can take advantage of what cloud has to offer in terms of utility based computing (a.k.a. scaling), availability, data durability, etc. To this end, we have been developing a VNF Performance Modeling framework for automatic characterization of a particular VNF implementation in terms of its cloud-readiness and its bottlenecks towards cloud-readiness. We will present the details of our performance modeling framework and show its utility based on the existing open source VNF implementations. The next frontier of telco-cloud vision is to develop cloud-native network functions and services. Thus, in the last part of our talk, we will cover the future evolution of the framework and discuss the needs, requirements, potential metrics for evaluating the cloud-nativeness of network functions.
Jan Lindblad's presentation at Layer123 SDN and OpenFlow World Congress in Bad Homburg, Germany. Focusing on a multi-vendor SDN deployment at a Tier 1 Service Provider in Asia.
Tail-f Network Control System (NCS) use case:
• Dynamic control of L3-L7 devices using service- oriented network API
• Service chaining using OpenFlow
• Virtualized appliances
With the 2.0 release of MAAS, we are delivering High Availability for both Region and Rack components of MAAS. This deck describes the MAAS architecture and how HA is implemented.
This presentations gives basic overview about networking and in depth insights about Openstack Neutron component.
Covers understanding on VLAN,VXLAN,Openstack vSwitch
NFV infrastructure will be distributed across multiple geo-locations, to place workload close to the end user for better user experience, and introduce some cross -site requirements like service chaining, high availability and disaster recovery. There are gaps in OpenStack in such geo-distributed clouds such as:
Support VNF high availability across OpenStack
Support Multisite VNF geo site-disaster recovery
Single unified view for operators
Multi-site quota management
Sync tenant resources like images, ssh-keys, security groups
Policy driven VNF placements
Optimized resource utilization
Dynamic Service Functions Chaining across sites
Several projects like OPNFV Multisite, Tacker, Kingbird and Tricircle projects have collaborated to address the requirements for NFV. In this session, come learn about:
Need for multisite in NFV
Gaps in OpenStack
Existing projects and solutions
Gaps in these solutions and what different teams are doing to fix it
Parser is an integration project in OPNFV and one of the candidate projects of OPNFV B Release. ETSI NFV offers a rich set of descriptors and deployment templates on different levels, thus it is vital for OPNFV as a platform to provide the capability of utilizing different templates for developers to work on. At its core, Parser provides such translation tooling that developers won't care too much about writing a "correct" script. They could write their templates/scripts in TOSCA or YANG or whatever they desire, and Parser would enable OPNFV to natively support all these types of scripts by translate them to the one that the main platform would use.
In this presentation the core team member of the Parser project, Howard Huang, Victor Hu, Vinayak Ram and Julien Zhang will share with you what and how we do in Parser project, and what nice features you would expect in the coming releases.
TOSCA and OpenTOSCA: TOSCA Introduction and OpenTOSCA Ecosystem OverviewOpenTOSCA
TOSCA is a new standard facilitating platform independent description
of Cloud applications.
OpenTOSCA is an open source TOSCA ecosystem including the modeling tool "Winery", the TOSCA runtime "OpenTOSCA", and the self-service portal "Vinothek".
Summit 16: Deploying Virtualized Mobile Infrastructures on OpenstackOPNFV
Service Provider is evolving and competing with leaner Over the Top Providers (OTP) providers such as Google and Amazon to provide mobile services. Furture SP network has ot be agile, resilient and auto salable. SPs are leaning towards using COTS infra, open networking (OPNFV, ONOS) and VNF to run routers, switches, mobile gateways, firewall, NAT, DPI functions. Session covers design and deployment of virtualizing the mobile infra such as Virtual Evolved Packet Core, GiLAN and VoLTE as well as 5G core. We will also cover performance fine tuning using DPDK, SR-IOV etc. WE will present case study using Cisco (VNF Manager and NFVO), Redhat (NFVI), Openstack and block storage using CEPH technology. Participants will be able to understand complexities of mobile packet core, evolution NFV based solution and architecture framework for 5G mobile packet core.
Google and Intel speak on NFV and SFC service delivery
The slides are as presented at the meet up "Out of Box Network Developers" sponsored by Intel Networking Developer Zone
Here is the Agenda of the slides:
How DPDK, RDT and gRPC fit into SDI/SDN, NFV and OpenStack
Key Platform Requirements for SDI
SDI Platform Ingredients: DPDK, IntelⓇRDT
gRPC Service Framework
IntelⓇ RDT and gRPC service framework
Sharing High-Performance Interconnects Across Multiple Virtual Machinesinside-BigData.com
In this deck from the Stanford HPC Conference, Mohan Potheri from VMware presents: Sharing High-Performance Interconnects Across Multiple Virtual Machines.
"Virtualized devices offer maximum flexibility: sharing of hardware between virtual machines, the use of VMware vMotion to handle migration and take snapshots. However, when performance is the most critical requirement there are other options. VMware Direct Path I/O delivers excellent performance, but only for a single virtual machine. Single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV), on the other hand, offers the performance of pass-through mode while allowing devices to be shared by multiple virtual machines.
This session introduces SR-IOV, explains how it is enabled in VMware vSphere, and provides details of specific use cases that important for machine learning and high-performance computing. It includes performance comparisons that demonstrate the benefits of SR-IOV and information on how to configure and tune these configurations."
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/-iYYmsBw8SU
Learn more: https://www.vmware.com
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Packet processing in the fast path involves looking up bit patterns and deciding on an actions at line rate. The complexity of these functions at Line Rate, have been traditionally handled by ASICs and NPUs. However with the availability of faster and cheaper CPUs and hardware/software accelerations, it is possible to move these functions onto commodity hardware. This tutorial will talk about the various building blocks available to speed up packet processing both hardware based e.g. SR-IOV, RDT, QAT, VMDq, VTD and software based e.g. DPDK, Fd.io/VPP, OVS etc and give hands on lab experience on DPDK and fd.io fast path look up with following sessions. 1: Introduction to Building blocks: Sujata Tibrewala
VMworld 2013: Designing Network Virtualization for Data-Centers: Greenfield D...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Ben Basler, VMware
Roberto Mari, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Madhu Rangarajan will provide an overview of Networking trends they are seeing in Cloud, various network topologies and tradeoffs, and trends in the acceleration of packet processing workloads. They will also talk about some of the work going on in Intel to address these trends, including FPGAs in the datacenter.
NFV and SDN: 4G LTE and 5G Wireless Networks on Intel(r) ArchitectureMichelle Holley
The Presentation will outline the KPIs and key optimizations at the platform, NFVi and Stack level in implementing wireless base station stack and Telco Edge cloud on Intel Architecture. The presentation will use the FlexRAN LTE Reference PHY and NEV SDK for MEC to outline the NFV and 5G use cases like network slicing.
DPDK Summit 2015 - RIFT.io - Tim MortsolfJim St. Leger
DPDK Summit 2015 in San Francisco.
Presentation by RIFT.io's CTO Tim Mortsolf.
For additional details and the video recording please visit www.dpdksummit.com.
Turbocharge the NFV Data Plane in the SDN Era - a Radisys presentationRadisys Corporation
On October 8, 2014, Karl Wale (Director of Product Management) and James Radley (Architect) presented: Turbocharge the NFV Data Plane in the SDN Era. This expert duo discussed the evolution of the network and service provider objectives around the challenges of deploying SDN/NFV solutions. They take you through some application use cases and introduce the new Radisys FlowEngine data plane software technology.
Citrix Master Class - Live Upgrade from XenApp 6.5 to 7.6Lee Bushen
Video available here: http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/12787
Join technology experts Lee Bushen and Patrick Irwin as they discuss and demonstrate a step-by-step move from XenApp 6.5 to XenApp 7.6. With this live demo, we’ll take a user-centric approach and transition across to a new XenApp 7.6 environment with minimal disruption and retraining. We’ll be showing best-practice methods such as consolidating your old and new system with StoreFront, testing for application compatibility with AppDNA and upgrading a server live into the new XenDesktop 7.6 system.
VMworld 2013: How SRP Delivers More Than Power to Their Customers VMworld
VMworld 2013
Sheldon Brown, SRP
Girish Manmadkar, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Achieving the Ultimate Performance with KVMDevOps.com
Building and managing a cloud is not an easy task. It needs solid knowledge, proper planning and extensive experience in selecting the proper components and putting them together.
Many companies build new-age KVM clouds, only to find out that their applications & workloads do not perform well. Join this webinar to learn how to get the most out of your KVM cloud and how to optimize it for performance.
Join this webinar and learn:
Why performance matters and how to measure it properly?
What are the main components of an efficient new-age cloud?
How to select the right hardware?
How to optimize CPU and memory for ultimate performance?
Which network components work best?
How to tune the storage layer for performance?
6WINDGate™ - Enabling Cloud RAN Virtualization6WIND
Traditional mobile networks are based on stand-alone Base Transceiver Stations covering a radio area. BTS overlap to provide a wide coverage to mobile users and are connected to the mobile core network through a backhaul network. Cloud Radio Access Network is a new architecture for mobile access networks that rely on simple radio front-ends connected to a pool of remote network resources. By leveraging cloud infrastructures, CAPEX and OPEX is lowered substantially.
Middle Tier Scalability - Present and Futuredfilppi
How the data explosion of recent years has spawned many new technologies, and role of in-memory techology currently and in light of advances in flash memory.
When thinking about automation and orchestration most people have tools like CloudFormation, Chef or Puppet in mind. These tools do a great job at allocating infrastructure resources and configuring them. But in reality, when deploying and managing complete application stacks, there’s much more to it. You need things to be done in a certain order; there are dependencies to consider and information to share between your application tiers, and then there’s everything related to post deployment - recovering from failures, scaling and continuously deploying your code, to name some. In this session we’ll discuss what it takes to orchestrate and automate your applications through the entire lifecycle, and without losing control.
Description of the creation of real time big data analytics by the combination of in-memory computing technology with big data storage technology. Twitter analytics used as the entry point and example, then describing how Storm functions, the combination of a data grid with Storm for ultimate performance, and a real world example of a production big data real time analytical system combining GigaSpaces XAP, Apache Cassandra (DataStax), and Apache Hadoop (Cloudera).
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5. NFV Orchestration
Requirements
Performance
◇ Placement and
configuration
◇ Mixed, Multiple
SLA sensitive
workloads
◇ Fine-tune
Hypervisor, OS
and other
bottlenecks
Scalability
◇ VNF placement
vs. VM placement
◇ Dynamic VNF
scaling in and out
◇ Maintain
Throughput and
SLA as VNF
scales
And More..
◇ High
Infrastructure
Utilization
◇ Service Function
Chaining (SFC)
◇ OSS/BSS
Interaction
◇ PNFV Integration
7. DPA
◇ NFVI Level
◇ CPU pinning
◇ NUMA
◇ DPDK
◇ SR-IOV
◇ And more…
◇ VIM level
◇ Recognizes and
configures platform and
infrastructure
◇ Enables “asking” for
the right resources
EPA
FOR OPTIMIZED VNF PERFORMANCE, ENVIRONMENT AWARE
ORCHESTRATION IS REQUIRED
?
8. Requirements on NFV
infrastructure
◇Some differences to generic IT:
• Determinism and performance
• Small packet processing
• Real-time, latency (<10μs for CPE and access functions), jitter
• Availability (detect failed VMs in <1s and
autorestart, recover host failures)
• Regulatory, geolocation (incl. geo redundancy)
• Accelerate VM migration in planned
maintenance
• HW acceleration cards
• Advanced management (OSS/BSS)
VM1 VM2 VM3
Orchestration
service aware
platform aware
Hypervisor
CPU Chipset
Switch
Silicon
NIC
Silicon Linux+Apps
EPA for demanding applications recognizes
and configures platform/infrastructure
10. Server architecture and
workload placement
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11. Key Enhanced Platform
Awareness features
◇Example platform features
for NFV dataplane
workloads:
• SR-IOV
• Huge Pages
• NUMA
• vCPU pinning to cores
• CPU model, instructions, Last Level
Cache
• vSwitch
• Real Time
• Trusted Execution Technology
• …
◇Cumulative performance impact on
Intel® Data Plane Performance
Demonstrators from platform
optimizations
as % of 10Gb/s
Source: Intel white paper QoS in
BRAS with Linux and IA, August 2014
13. EPA at Resource Orchestration
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• NFV Resource Orchestrator needs
to understand what is required to
support each VM
• Requests facilities from the
relevant VIM, which then allocates
logical and physical resources
from a managed pool
Servers &
hypervisor
Resource
Orchestration
Virtual Network
Function
V
M
V
M
V
M
V
M
Infrastructure as a Service
VIM
Cloud/SDN
14. OpenStack* (EPA)
Features
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Non-Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA) CPU & memory configuration (co-located memory and socket)
NUMA I/O Device locality configuration (co-located PCI device and socketa)
CPU Pinning
Huge Page Support (2MB/1GB)
I/O Pass-through (Full PCIe pass-through of the I/O device to the guest)
I/O Pass-through (Virtual Function (SR-IOV) pass-through of the I/O device to the guest)
Intel ® Quick Assist Technology
Intel® TXT (Trusted platform)
HW offload API for RRC (Ruby Rapids)
Intel® AES-NI, AVX, SSE4.2, RD RAND (Instruction Set Extensions)
CPU Model (explicit model match for planned, or better for the future)
CPU llc (cache size)
vSwitches (type, capability) - OVS specified, with or without either DPDK/HWOA
LLC utilization
CPU ddio (direct i/o) - bios has to turn it on, DPDK makes use of it
CAT (cache allocation)
15. Example EPA list
benefit/use cases EPA feature HP ProLiant w Niantic NICs
avoid vSwitch bottleneck I/O Pass-through (Full PCIe pass-through of the I/O device to the guest) yes
avoid vSwitch bottleneck
I/O Pass-through (Virtual Function (SR-IOV) pass-through of the I/O device to
the guest) yes
connect NIC cache and memory CPU ddio (direct i/o) -bios has to turn it on, DPDK makes use of it yes (in BIOS settings)
memory close to vCPU
Non-Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA) CPU & Memory configuration (co-
located memory and socket) yes
IO close to vCPU NUMA I/O Device Locality configuration (co-located PCI device and socket) yes
host OS scheduler doesn't move VMs CPU Pinning yes
requirement for DPDK packet processing
performance Huge Page Support (2MB/1GB) yes
correct VM placement AES-NI, AVX, SSE4.2, RD RAND (Instruction Set Extensions) yes
min compute performance CPU Model (explicit model match for planned, or better for the Future) yes
min compute performance CPU Last Level Cache (cache size) yes
min vSwitch features/performance
vSwitches (type, capability) -OVS specified, with or without either
DPDK/HWOA yes
virtualization latency/jitter real time hypervisor yes (needs BIOS settings)
trusted boot (trusted compute pools, geolocation) Trusted eXecution Technology yes
21. VNFs Are (Very) Complex
◇ Multi-Tiers
◇ Load balanced
◇ Strict HW / Placement
◇ NUMA, DPDK, SR/IOV,
Affinity / Anti-Affinity
◇ Firewalls, networks,
storage,
◇ Often hard wired
◇ Day 1? and day 2?
◇ Scaling, Healing, elasticity?
22. Service Chains More So..
Add Their Own Complexities:
◇ Forwarding Graphs(dynamic?)
◇ Complex Environments
◇ Cutting Edge and Legacy in same
environment
◇ Multiple geographic locations
◇ Complex policies and SLA
requirements
26. VM
Container
TOSCA Models Deployments As
A Node Graph: The Blueprint
VM
Container
VNF
VM
VNF VNF
HostedOn
ConnectedTo
Network A Network B
Subnet Subnet
Node Type:
VM
Relationship:
ConnectedTo
27. TOSCA Models Are Interpreted
by Workflows
• “Install” workflow
VM
VNF
VM
Container
VNF
Server
VNF
Network
Subnet
1
2
4
3
4 4
5
<Placement/Affinity>
Flow
Graph
Creation
28. TOSCA Policies
• Asynchronous Post Deployment Actions
• Detect node failure and heal
• Detect capacity threshold and scale
• Any other automated async capability
29. TOSCA Requirements &
Capabilities
• Enables abstract specifications
• Platform/Cloud/VIM independent
• Example: rather than specify OS Image,
specify minimum OS Version
• Example: specify VNF host provides SR-IOV.
36. Cloudify Key Aspects
Open Source
Open Source is key to
drive innovation and
create superb quality
software. No more
monolithic vendor
tied monsters.
Open Standard
Open standard and
vendor neutral
language based on
the TOSCA Spec for
describing VNFs and
forwarding graphs.
Future Proof
Be ready for what’s
coming and leverage
new emerging
Technologies and
tools.
37. “It is not the strongest of the
species that survives,
It is the one that is
most adaptable to change.”
-Charles Darwin
41. What Is ARIA?
◇ Embeddable TOSCA orchestration Engine
￭ TOSCA Parser and Execution Engine
￮ Python Library and CLI
￭ Common Plugins
◇ Set of examples for Enterprise and NFV
◇ Open Source
◇ Open Governance
￭ Apache Software Foundation
◇ www.AriaTOSCA.org
42. TOSCA Orchestration
Engine Library
Apache Software
Foundation Project
OASIS TOSCA
Defines and Refines
TOSCA SPEC
Platform
Consumes ARIA Library for TOSCA
orchestration capabilities
OPEN-O
Consumes ARIA library for TOSCA
orchestration capabilities and Multi-VIM
ARIA
ARIA
Tacker
Consumes ARIA library as Tacker
Orchestration Plugin for TOSCA
capabilities and Multi-VIM support
ARIA
Murano
Consumes ARIA library as orchestrator
Plugin for TOSCA capabilities and Multi-
VIM support
ARIA
Mist.IO
Consumes ARIA library as orchestrator
Plugin for TOSCA capabilities and Multi-
VIM support
ARIA
Use Cases
Spec
43. Gigaspaces & Intel
◇ Aria and Open-O initiative
◇ NFV Sales Collaboration
◇ Joint Effort to test VNFs on EPA hardware
44. References
◇ Cloudify community portal:
http://getcloudify.org
◇ NFV related posts at the Cloudify blog:
http://getcloudify.org/tags/NFV/
◇ Demo Video:
https://youtu.be/84gEy6Vvc0E
◇ Cloudify ClearWater https://github.com/Orange-
OpenSource/opnfv-cloudify-clearwater
Describe VNF requirements (e.g. needs NUMA pinning)
Understand environments capabilities (host X,Y supports NUMA, host X has no capacity, host Y available)
Match the requirement and capability -> placing the load optimally
Needs to represent VNF complexity + needs and the ability of Cloudify to orchestrate on the hybrid (partly data acceleration enabled) environment
Needs to represent VNF complexity + needs and the ability of Cloudify to orchestrate on the hybrid (partly data acceleration enabled) environment
Needs to represent VNF complexity + needs and the ability of Cloudify to orchestrate on the hybrid (partly data acceleration enabled) environment
Needs to represent VNF complexity + needs and the ability of Cloudify to orchestrate on the hybrid (partly data acceleration enabled) environment
Needs to represent VNF complexity + needs and the ability of Cloudify to orchestrate on the hybrid (partly data acceleration enabled) environment
Needs to represent VNF complexity + needs and the ability of Cloudify to orchestrate on the hybrid (partly data acceleration enabled) environment
