Cloudify NFV Orchestrator for Optimal Performance

NFV Orchestration for Optimal Performance

Hello ThereArthur Berezin

Director of product - Cloudify, GigaSpaces

Sivan BarzilyDirector of product NFV - GigaSpaces

Agenda◇ The Challenge Data intensive VNFs

◇ The Environment DPA and EPA

◇ The Missing Link Smart Orchestration

◇ Introducing Cloudify

◇ Tying It All Together Use Case

The Challenge

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

Predictability◇ VNF Descriptors

- NFV-O + VIM - Platform Policy

Enforcement and Telemetry

◇ Fine grain resource requests

And More..◇ High

Infrastructure Utilization

◇ Service Function Chaining (SFC)

◇ OSS/BSS Interaction

◇ PNFV Integration

The Environment

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

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The Missing LinkEnvironment Aware Orchestration

Introducing CloudifyPure-Play Orchestrator based on TOSCA

APIsAutomation *-as-a-Service

Awareness Reaction to Self

Software-Defined-Operator

APIsAutomation *-as-a-Service

The Reality

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?

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

“ The only constant is change” -Unknown

WHAT IFYou could orchestrate and manage any VNF the same way?

Orchestrating VNF Blueprints with TOSCA

Topology Workflow Policy

(Topology Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications)

VM

Container

VNF BlueprintVM

Container

Bono

VM

Sprout Homer

HostedOn ConnectedTo

Network A Network B

Subnet Subnet

Node Type: VM

ConnectedTo

VM

Container

VNF BlueprintVM

Container

Bono

VM

Sprout Homer

HostedOn ConnectedTo

Network A Network B

Subnet Subnet

Node Type: VM

ConnectedTo

◇ YAML Blueprint◇ Resources

(Modules, Receipts, YANG, Scripts, Others)

VNFBlueprint(TOSCA)

InfrastructurePlugins

ContainerPlugins

Conf. MgmtPlugins

● Provision● Configure● Monitor● Manage Monitoring &

Alarming

VNFBlueprint(TOSCA)

InfraPlugins

ContainerPlugins

Conf MgmtPlugins

● Provision● Configure● Monitor● Manage Monitoring &

Alarming

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.

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” -Charles Darwin

HowCloudify Fits in ETSI NFV ?

Orchestrator

VNF Manager

Tying It All Together

Requirements:● SR-IOV● DPDK● etc

VNFD

EPA Enabled VIM

NFVO

Exposing Platform Capabilities

NFVI

Use Cases

OPNFV Functest vIMS

Why Cloudify?◇ Will provision resources on any cloud ◇ Standards based (TOSCA)◇ Smart placement◇ Will handle monitoring, log collection,

healing and scaling of your deployment

◇ Will allow you to mix containerized and non containerized pieces

◇ It Works!

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

Thank YouQuestions?Find us at:

◇ Twitter @CloudifySource◇ email [email protected]