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OPNFV Summit
Benefiting from IT
and Network Ops
Convergence
Paul To
Director, Product Management
Telco Transformation BU
June, 2016

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Network + IT

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Culture Gaps?

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• “Server Guy” vs “Network Guy”
• OpenStack vs VMware
• Carrier Grade vs Web Scale
• Network vs DC Orchestration
• Turnkey vs DIY
• Add your own…

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Are you building a NFV Cloud? Or a Carrier Cloud?
NFV IOT Public
Cloud
Private
Cloud
XAAS …
NFV
Private
Cloud
Public
Cloud
IOT
XAAS
etc.
Carrier
Multi-Service
Cloud

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Multi-Service Cloud is Only Way to Achieve Significant ROI
(Sources: ACG research, UBS, Arthur D. Little)
…but A Multi-Service/Common
Cloud Platform is Critical
IT is Quickly Shifting to
the Cloud…
…and NFV/SDN Provide Huge
Revenue/Cost Benefits...

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No More Religious Wars

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For Example: OpenStack or VMware?
Right Answer: Let the workload requirements dictate the stack!
Front End
Front End
Front End
Front End
Front End
Front End
Front EndMicro
Service
Object Based
Data Stores
NOSQL
Routing System
Prime
Routing System
Backup
SNMPRoute
Service
System
Service
SNMPRoute
Service
System
Service
Forward
Service
Forward
Service
Forward
Service
Forward
Service VM VM VM
Routing
System
VM
Primary
Routing
System
VM
Backup
Forward
-ing VM
Modern, Cloud Optimized Architecture
‘Shared Nothing’
Legacy Platform 2 Embedded Architecture
‘Redundancy Through Duplication’

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Single Hardware Substrate – Multiple Cloud Stacks
VMware

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Unifying “Dual-Stack” Management
NFVI
Manager
vRealize
Operations
OnRack
NFV Services Development & Management Platform
Big Data/Analytics Orchestration
SMARTS
Real Time
Intelligence Spark/SpringXD
Service Assurance
VROPS Cloudify
OpenStack Distros / KVM Domain
Mirantis, Canonical, RedHat
VMware / ESX Domain
based on VCD or VIO
Unified
Management &
Automation

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Carrier Grade vs Web Scale… How Many 9’s?
Common
Infrastructure
Substrate
Network HA Blueprints Compute/Storage HA
Blueprints
Application / Business Policies
How about Software Defined HA?

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Unify Orchestration Across VMware, OpenStack, Docker,
Virtual & Physical Network
TOSCA – Unifying Virtual Orchestration across VMW, OpenStack and Docker
YANG – Unifying Physical & Virtual Orchestration
Brownfield
/ PNFs
EMC Service Assurance Suite Providing Unified Management Across All

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Unifying Ops & Service Management
VNF VNF
VNF
VNF
VNF
VNFM #1
VNF VNF
VNF
VNF
VNF
VNFM #2
VNF
#3
VNF
#4
Cloudify NFV Orchestrator
EMC SAS
(VNF Aware Root Cause Analysis)
vRealize Ops – Predictive
Analytics
EMC
Service
Assurance
Suite (SAS)
Data
Collection
Fault Mgmt
Perf Mgmt
Multi-Layer
Topology
Model
VMware OpenStack Bare Metal
Compute
Storage
Network
Orchestrate
Predictive Analytics
Topology
Telemetries
Events
Configure
Monitoring
Telemetries, Metrics,
Alerts
ActionableTrigger
Root Cause
Remediate

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“It’s Slow”
“It’s the
Network”
“It’s the
Application
”
“It’s the
Server”
“It’s the
Storage
System”

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vCPE
VNF
vLB
VNF
vFW
VNF
SMARTS – VNF Aware Cross Domain Root Cause Analysis
Virtual Switches
VMs
Physical Switches
PhysicalVirtualAppl
Root
Cause
Unified FCAPS for IT &
Network
VNF Aware Cross
Domain Root Cause
Analysis

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Single Pane of Glass Across Physical & Virtual, Network & IT Environments
Unifying Net Ops and IT Ops
EMC Service
Assurance Suite
Compute, Network and
Storage
Storage Team
• Service Impact
• Troubleshooting
• Problem remediation
Management
• Executive
Dashboard
• SLAS - Costs
Operations Team
• Topology
• Impact Analysis
• Root cause Analysis
Network Team
• Service Impact
• Troubleshooting
• Problem remediation
1. Automated Root Cause
2. Service Impact
Application Teams
• Service Impact
• Troubleshooting
• Problem remediation
Server Team
• Service Impact
• Troubleshooting
• Problem remediation
4. Dashboard & Reporting
3. Remediation

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What can go wrong?
Complex “Chain of
Dependencies”
• Application
• OS
• Hypervisor
• Server
• RAID
• NIC
• Firmware
• Network
More Potential
Problem Triggers
• Software / OS
patches
• Firmware
Upgrade
• BIOS Settings
• Config Changes
• Script Changes

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Applying DevOps / CI Concept to NFV
Continuous Integration
Continuous Deployment Framework
• Automated Certifications
– Select Test Bed Blueprint
– Select Test Methodologies
– Schedule Test Bed Creation and Run Test
– Capture Results
• Automated A/B Testing
– Certify new VNF vendors, VNF releases
– Certify new hardware, firmware, drivers
– Certify changes to Cloud Virtualization stack
– Vendor interoperability testing
– …

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Helping Network and IT Convergence
instead of…
Network Server Storage DevOps
OSS/BSS
TCO / ROI

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Come see us at the EMC Booth B02
• Showcases:
– EMC Provider Cloud Systems
– EMC NFVI Manager
– Versa SD-WAN
– Versa vCPE
– Affirmed vEPC
– Affirmed vProbe & EMC Real Time Intelligence

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Thank You!