NFV: Lessons learned from production deployments and current observations…

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2. NFV:
Lessons learned
from production
deployments &
current
observations
Andy Kennedy (@packetdiscards)
VMware: Networking & Security Business Unit
+44 7766 250030
akennedy@vmware.com

3. Common
Platform
Modular
Approach
Open API
Organizational
Transformation
Getting
Started
The Evolution Towards
the Telco Cloud

4. • Introduces Vendor Lock-­In.
• Inefficient Use of Resources / Capital.
• Increase Operational Costs.
• Increase Deployment Timelines.
• Slow Time to Revenue.
• Prohibits Cost/Revenue Matching.
The Problem: Traditional Network Architectures
Failing to Deliver a Sustainable Business Model

5. Appliance
• Closest to traditional
network model
• Optimize App
Performance
• Limited Flexibility
X86 Server
Hypervisor
Dedicated VNF
• Integrated vendor OEM Solution
• Improved Efficiency within single-­
vendor framework
• Limited VNF selection
Vendor-­Optimised H/W
Vendor-­ Optimized NFVI
Vendor-­selected VNFs
Hypervisor
Cloud Manager
• Any VNF, any hardware, single
common NFVI
• Operator contracts separately for
hardware, NFVI and VNFs
Operator-­selected h/w
Vendor-­optimised NFVI
Operator-­selected VNFs
Hypervisor
Multiple Cloud Mgrs
Custom Stack Common Platform
Old School Old Turned New Game Changing
Architectural options for NFVI today

6. Mijbil Al-­Ayoub,
Director, Corporate Communications
Ooredoo Kuwait
"The speed at which we have been able to
trial our unified cloud and onboard the VoLTE
service functions into our IT network has
exceeded our expectations. We did a joint
R&D project that took only two months to
complete, and we finalized the
development of our vIMS product that can
be deployed in a production, commodity
infrastructure, automatically in only 3.5
hours.”
“VMware NSX is a main pillar in segregating
tenants across Ooredoo's single converged
private cloud.”
"By making the decision to own and manage
our own platform and deploying VMware
virtualization technology as the basis of our NFV
infrastructure, Vodafone has been able to
combine the best Virtual Network Functions
(VNFs) from different vendors on a single
platform, and to bring high-­value services to
market more quickly."
Rui Frazao
Director, Network Engineering
Vodafone Germany
“Pre-­integrated platforms such as the VMware vCloud for NFV solution support production grade capabilities today.
Over time, similar capabilities are expected to be delivered through various open source initiatives and distributions.”
-­ ACG Research: Total Cost of Ownership Study, July 2015

7. Key Business Drivers
Example: Affirmed Networks vEPC
!
Don’t wait on NFV, Immediate Cost Savings
Creates Opportunity for Telcos
Architecture
Capex
Only one plaƞorm
† Bring new services to market faster.
† Bring innovaƟve and differenƟated services to
market by reducing the cost of creaƟng and
launching new services.
† Improve customer quality of experience with
right-sized capacity in the network.
Saving Money in the First Year
Every year you wait on moving to NFV, you incur at least twice as much expense to keep up with traffic demand. Moving to a
virtualized soluƟon let’s you take back those savings.
Three separate plaƞorms to manage
VirtualizaƟon Makes You Money
Service Turn Up Time
Opex
vs.
6 months
15 months
Cash Flow
Advanced NFV SoluƟon
Appliance-based soluƟon
Revenue
68% lower Cumulative CAPEX
1. No over-investment in capacity
2. Scale dimensions independently
68%
67% lower cumulative OPEX
1. Large environmental savings (power,
cooling, and floor expense)
2. Service contract savings
67%
Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5
Every year you wait on moving to NFV, you incur at least twice as much expense to keep up
with traffic demand. Moving to a virtualized solution let’s you take back those savings.
!
!
!
Don’t wait on NFV, Immediate Cost Savings
Creates Opportunity for Telcos
Architecture
Capex
Only one plaƞorm
† Bring new services to market faster.
† Bring innovaƟve and differenƟated services to
market by reducing the cost of creaƟng and
launching new services.
Saving Money in the First Year
Every year you wait on moving to NFV, you incur at least twice as much expense to keep up with traffic demand. Moving to a
virtualized soluƟon let’s you take back those savings.
Three separate plaƞorms to manage
VirtualizaƟon Makes You Money
Service Turn Up Time
Opex
vs.
6 months
15 months
Cash Flow
Advanced NFV SoluƟon
Appliance-based soluƟon
Revenue
68% lower Cumulative CAPEX
1. No over-investment in capacity
2. Scale dimensions independently
68%
67% lower cumulative OPEX
1. Large environmental savings (power,
cooling, and floor expense)
2. Service contract savings
67%
-­ 5-­year cost comparison between traditional and virtualised network architectures

8. VIRTUALIZATION
Realising the Benefits of NFV with a Common Platform
HARDWARE
SERVICE and PLATFORM
ORCHESTRATION
SERVICE AGILITY
PEOPLE, PROCESS and
PROCEDURE
Service A Service B
VIRTUALIZATION VIRTUALIZATIONHARDWARE HARDWARE
SERVICE APPLICATION SERVICE APPLICATION SERVICE APPLICATION
Service n
PEOPLE, PROCESS and
PROCEDURE
PEOPLE, PROCESS and
PROCEDURE
SHARED COTS RESOURCES
Horizontal NFV Cloud Platform
PEOPLE, PROCESS and PROCEDURE
Tenant A Tenant B Tenant n
Management and
Operational
Silo
Management and
Operational
Silo
Management and
Operational
Silo
$
Revenue
$
Productivity

9. Embracing Change
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Industry specific
solution knowledge
Cloud service governance &
control
Oversees the cloud service
lifecycle
Network Domain
Expertise
Strategy and
planning expertise
Implements & Supports the
NFVI
Platform Operations
Cloud Infrastructure Owner
Service Architect
Defines new service
offerings
Codes & tests according
to service design
Drives requirements for
cloud platform

10. VMware vCloud for NFV Common Platform Approach
A Common Platform for Multi-­Vendor NFV Built on a Proven Foundation
• A Carrier Grade Solution
• Built on a Proven Foundation
• A Modular ETSI Defined Design
• Can Be Operationalized Incrementally
• Fast Deployment & Service Agility
• ONE Platform for SP & IT Cloud
• Optimized for Hybrid Cloud
• Evolution to OpenStack
• Rich Multi-­Vendor Partner Ecosystem
NETWORK STORAGECOMPUTE
Utilization
Performance Security Availability
Automate Troubleshoo
t
ManageReport
Hybrid Cloud
vCloudNFVI
Multi-­Vendor VNF Environment
VNFVNFVNF VNFVNF VNFVNF

11. Mobility Services Partner Ecosystem
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More VNFs in
Production than any
other NFVI platform.
Support for over 30 Carrier Grade VNF, VNFM, NFVI Platforms
We have partnered with VMware to deliver today's only production NFV solution
that allows mobile operators to improve their cost-­structure, streamline their
operations and significantly accelerate their service creation capabilities”
Hassan Ahmed, chairman and CEO, Affirmed Networks

12. vCloud for NFV
ONE Cloud Service Provider Solutions
Virtual Elastic
Mobile Services (vEMS)
Virtual Wireline Managed
Services (vWMS)
VoLTE vEPC vCPE
IMS PCRF vMME v/PGW NGFFW
vCloud
Connect
NAT DPI vRouter
vCloud for NFV Service Provider Solutions
ONE Cloud
Multi
Domain
Multi
API
Multi
VendorService Provider
Services
Service Provider
IT

13. VMware vCloud for NFV with VMware Integrated OpenStack
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Production
Services
vCloud API
OpenStack Maturation
Proofs of
Concept, Test
Deployments
Commercial
@ Scale
Telco Grade
Live Trial
Services
Open Container API
Software-­Defined Data Center
vRealizeTM Operations
Virtual SAN NSXTM
vSphere
Cloud Foundry APIvCloud API OpenStack
Containers

14. VMware Technology Mapping
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15. Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) Functional Block
• Responsible for controlling and managing the NFVI compute, storage, and network resources
• Exposing a northbound interface (vCloud Public API) to support management of virtualized
resources by the VNF Managers and the NFV Orchestrator
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Slide Credit: Klange/Blake

16. Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) Functional Block (cont.)
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Organizations & Multi-­TenancyOrganization vDCsProvider vDCsNetworking
16 ESX Nodes Per Cluster
20 Cores / 256GB Mem per node
·∙ Intel E5-­2650 – 2.0 GHz
·∙ Cores: 340 Cores
·∙ CPU: 680 GHz
·∙ Memory: 4352 GB
Provider vDC Servicer 3
16 ESX Nodes Per Cluster
20 Cores / 256GB Mem per node
·∙ Intel E5-­2650 – 2.0 GHz
·∙ Cores: 360 Cores
·∙ CPU: 720 GHz
·∙ Memory: 4608 GB
Provider vDC Service 1
VendorX Org-­vDC
VendorX ORG
Storage Profile
1
Storage Profile
1
Storage Profile
3
VXLAN
Backed
Network
PoolsNSX 6.1 – Network Pools
802.1Q,
NIOC,
OSPF,
ESG,
DFW,
VXLANNSX 6.1 – External Networks
PAYGAllocation Model:
2.1GHzvCPU Speed:
100%CPU Guaranteed:
100%MEM Guaranteed:
TBDMax. No. of VMs:
%
@
VendorY ORG
VendorY Catalog
vApp Templates
VendorX Admin VendorY Admin
VendorX Catalog
vApp Templates
Storage Profile
3
ELASTIC vDC
VendorY Org-­vDC
PAYGAllocation Model:
2.1GHzvCPU Speed:
100%CPU Guaranteed:
100%MEM Guaranteed:
TBDMax. No. of VMs:
East/West Traffic
North/South Traffic
16 ESX Nodes Per Cluster
20 Cores / 256GB Mem per node
·∙ Intel E5-­2650 – 2.0 GHz
·∙ Cores: 340 Cores
·∙ CPU: 680 GHz
·∙ Memory: 4352 GB
Provider vDC Service 2
Storage Profile
2
Storage Profile
2
%
VendorX Telco Management Workloads VendorY Telco Management Workloads
EMS VNFM ... EMS VNFM ...
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
vApp (1)
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
vApp (n) vApp
OS
APP
OS
APP
APIsAPIs
HTTPs
HTTPs
%
https://vcloud.domain.local
Slide Credit: Klange/Blake

17. NFV Infrastructure Working Domain (cont.)
17
Network
Slide Credit: Klange/Blake

18. NFVI Operations Management Functional Block (cont.)
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Disaster Recovery
Slide Credit: Klange/Blake

19. 2012 2013 2014 2015
Committed to
Heterogeneous
Management and
Networking
Delivered
Management
Committed to
Open Networking
OpenStack
Announcement
Containers Without
Compromise
Delivered VMware Integrated
OpenStack
Launched Open Source
Photon Platform
Launched Multi-­Device Identity
Windows 10 Support
vSphere Integrated Containers
Freedom, Flexibility & Choice
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The journey to open

20. Community Involvement
Openstack Contribution by Modules Openvswitch Contribution by Company

21. VMware Integrated Openstack

22. Service Orchestration (NFVO) Ecosystem
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vCloudNFV
vRealizeTM Operations
Virtual SAN NSXTM vSphere
vCloud API OpenStack
Containers
Service Orchestration Ecosystem
Service Providers can Customize their Stack with vCloudNFV Modularity.

23. vCPE Services Demo Participants
§ Complies with ETSI’s NFV
reference architecture
§ VMware vCloud® for NFV
provides the multi-­vendor
virtualization platform and platform
management
§ Cyan’s Blue Planet® provides
the central multi-­vendor
macro/micro service orchestrator
§ Versa Networks FlexVNF™ and
Director provide the vCPE
VNFs and VNF Manager

24. vCPE Services Demo Architecture
NFV
Data
Center
Virtualization
Platform
Open APIs
VNFs
Customer
B
Customer
A
Telco OSS
vRoutervNAT vFW
Service Orchestration
vRouter vNAT
vCPE
Services
vCPE
Services

26. Experience from NFVI production deployments
• Leading communication service providers are running their VNFs on
VMware infrastructure in production today
• Common Experience: a successful NFV PoC (single VNF) does not
represent a production environment and the challenges around cultural
change
• Business Alignment and funding needs to be established for NFVI
– Project-­based funding does not provide necessary flexibility
– Holistic approach necessary, internal charging/costing for resources
• Expectation setting for on-­boarding of first VNFs
– Transition phase and cultural change do take time
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27. NFV: Setting New
Business Priorities
To stimulate growth and
drive competitive advantage
Amaze customers and
empower employees
Manage risk and
protect brand value

28. One Cloud Any Application Any Device
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