Guillaume Gottardi

Solutions Architect, Cisco

Carrier Grade NFV

Cisco NFVI Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure

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The combination of Hardware and Software components that build the environment in which Virtual Functions (VNFs) are deployed.

+ = NFVI

Software Hardware

NFVI Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure

Cisco NFV Architecture Legend

VNF Manager

Cisco ESC 3rd

Party

NFV-O & Resource Orchestration

NSO – Network Services Orchestrator enabled by Tail-f

North Bound APIs

Virtual Network Functions

Cisco and 3rd

Party

CSR ASAv vNAM vIPS

vPC-DI vIMS Video

Opt. 3

rd Party

Cisco Physical Infrastructure

Network VIM

Linux (RHEL 7.1), Hyper Visor (KVM), Host Packages, Software Defined Storage

NFVI Scope

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Mercury based on RHEL OSP 7 OpenStack

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APIC VTS others or or 3rd

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3rd

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Cisco NFVI Pod Packaging

½ Rack POD Full Rack POD

Storage

Expansion Module

Compute

Expansion Module

NFVI

Branch Solution

1

2 3

4

6 5

Modular

Configuration

Carrier Grade Easy to Manage

Pre-integrated

+ Validated

Single Point

of Ownership

Advanced

Services

Distributed NFVI in Cisco’s Open Network Architecture Enabling End-to-End Service Creation

Access

Carrier-E /

Transport

Data Centers

Edge

Internet

DCI

EPN

DCI

Peering

Edge CCS/

InterCloud

Public Cloud

SP IP or MPLS Core

Biz CPE

Aggregation Cloud

Multi-Site, Multi-POD Unified Management

Media Mobility VMS Use

Case

Cisco NFVI Solution The Challenges it Addresses

OpenStack can be Complex to Operate:

Complex interactions between services, databases, messaging queues etc.

Health and performance of a cloud is difficult to quantified, verify and monitor.

Updates/upgrades require extensive human effort and are prone to issues.

NFVI – What do we want to achieve ?

Use Case Agnostic Infrastructure

Integrated Solution with Single Point of Ownership

Carrier Class attributes

Open Standards Based, Modular and Elastic – Best of Breed Partnership

Easy to use with Unified Management

1

2

3

4

5

Service Velocity Customer Experience Open Architecture

NFVI Platform Use Cases - agnostic Legend

B2B Mobility Media

Cisco Physical Infrastructure

Network VIM

Linux (RHEL 7.1), Hyper Visor (KVM), Host Packages, Software Defined Storage

NFVI Scope

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Generic

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Cisco Physical Infrastructure

Network VIM

Linux (RHEL 7.1), Hyper Visor (KVM), Host Packages, Software Defined Storage

NFVI Scope

Network Compute (UCS) Storage Ceph

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Cisco NFVI Solution Leading Industry Partnerships

Performance Acceleration,

Enhanced Platform Awareness

Certified by Red Hat

Joint Engineering

Integrated platform Design and Validation

Legend

Simple Access to Support

Single Point of Contact

APIC VTS OSC or or 3rd

Party or

2

Cisco NFVI Solution Differentiators

Real-Value around Cisco specific add-ons

Installer CI/CD

Health Checks Logging/Monitoring

HA Verification VM throughput Testing

3

Installer Differentiators

Bare-Metal Deployment 1

Utilizes latest modern toolsets: Python, Ansible 2

Innovative use of UCS CIMC APIs to configure HW 3

Deploys RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and RHEL OpenStack Platform (OSP) 4

Containerized Deployment of OpenStack Services 5

Verifiable HA Deployment 6

3

Fail Fast Philosophy: Installer detects improper parameters before starting with installation

• Eliminate unexpected issues during deployment

• Verify the presence of all mandatory input parameters

• Parameters are specified in a YAML file

Deployment and Install Differentiators

Verified by performing

invalid input

3

NFVI CI/CD Differentiator

Customizable Continuous Integration Pipeline

RH OSP

RPMs

Cisco

Patches

Docker

Containers

Repo

Continuous

Integration

System

TEST

BUILD

3

Install, Upgrade, and Managed CI/CD

Container-Based Atomic Deployment and Upgrade

Docker

Containers

Repo

Controller - 1

Controller - 2

Controller - 3

OpenStack HA Cluster

Customer Controlled Cisco

3

Key take away here is catching and handling failures before customer experiences an application failure.

Cloud Pulse OpenStack Health Check

How can we ensure an SLA if we don’t know what is going on in the cloud?

Accomplished through the following types of tests:

Cisco created

Operator

1

Endpoint

2

Functional

3

Comprehensive

4

Upgrade

5

?

3

Cloud Pulse OpenStack Health Service Check Tool

Nova List

Cinder List

Glance Image-list

Neutron Net-list

Keystone Tenant-list

Boot VM

Create Volume

Attach Volume

Detach Volume

Delete Volume

Delete VM

Create Image

Delete Image

Database Cluster Status

Rabbit Cluster Status

Haproxy Tests

Functional Check Infra Tests Light Endpoint Check

3

Cloud99 A Framework for OpenStack HA Testing

HAProxy Keepalived

nova Neutron Keystone Glance cinder horizon

• Load the cloud: concurrent relevant control/data plane tests

• Process or node level disruption of service

• Monitor services

Cisco created

Ensure no disruption for existing cloud resources!!!

3

Framework for Openstack HA Testing

3 Important Components using a plugin model: • Runners – Run scale/functional tests

• Disruptors – Disrupts nodes/containers/processes

• Monitors – Monitor the cloud while disruptions are in progress

Operational Simplicity – Verification Control Plane/Data Plane - Cloud99 Framework for OS HA testing

nova Neutron Keystone Glance cinder horizon

HAProxy Keepalived

Testing Openstack Services

Testing Core Infrastructure Services

How What

3

Tenant 2 Tenant 1

Operational Data Plane Validation – VMTP

VMTP Data Plane

Flows (logical)

Automated data path validation and performance tests using VMTP tool.

Client VM

2 L3 fixed IP L2 same

network

Client VM

1

Client VM

3 L3 floating IP

Server VM

Virtual router

Client VM

4 upload 5 download

(external host)

3

ELK Stack Log Management Platform

Data Collection and

Transformation Agent

An Analytics Engine

and DataStore

Data Exploration

Interface

Logstash Forwarder

on all nodes

OpenStack Service Logs

LOG

3

Logging Capabilities

Enhanced Centralized Logging using ELK Stack

• Kibana Dashboard

• View Consolidated System Wide Logs

• ElasticSearch for Log Search

3

"Best of Breed" Open Architecture Intel-Cisco Collaboration : ONP Reference Architecture & Intel Network Builders

Intel ONP Ingredient Menu

Fedora

Intel® Comm Chipset 89xx

intel® Xeon E5-2600 V3

intel® Ethernet Controller XL710

Intel® 8950 Coleto Creek

* Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

Reference Architecture Commercial Product

RHEL OSP7, Ceph

Cisco VPP or Open vSwitch

Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3

Intel® Communications Chipset 89xx Series

Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710

Cisco UCS B-series Cisco UCS C-series Cisco UCS M-series Nexus 9K Family

Cisco NFVI Platform

Intel® Xeon E5-2600 V3 Intel® Ethernet Controller XL710

Fedora

DPDK

Intel ONP Server 1.5

Kilo 2015.1.1

Lithium SR1

v2.4.90

v2.0

2.3.0.5

Fedora v21

Industry SHVS

Integrated Software

SDN Controllers: or APIC or VTS

TXT/TPM, EPA, IETF NSH, OvS hardware acceleration

Single Pane of Glass

(Operations) Cisco Openstack

SP Suite

Validated

PoD’s

Single Point of

Support

RHEL KVM/RH OS7.2

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Joint Cisco/Red Hat proposition is a leading contributor to all upstream projects,

which constitute a consistent, high quality, high performing NFVI/VIM platform

Full ETSI members, supporting NFV

www.etsi.org/membership/current-members

OPNFV Platinum Members and Board of Directors

www.opnfv.org/about/governance/board-directors

OpenDaylight Board Member

www.opendaylight.org/project/board-members

"Best of Breed" Open Architecture Red Hat-Cisco: Joint commitment to standardization & Open Source

One of the largest contribitors

https://www.ietf.org/

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Cisco NFVI Platform Highlights and Differentiators

Integrated Platform Sold & Supported by Cisco

Fully backed by Red Hat

Open Source

and Standard

Compliant

Joint Engineering

Broad Ecosystem

of VNFs and ISVs

Carrier Grade

Tightly Coupled

Technical Support

Commercially

Bundled Platform

Reliable

Install/Upgrade

Simplified

Manageability

#1 Network vendor + #1 OpenStack vendor

Delivering a world class NFVI platform