NFV and Openstack

1 NFV and Openstack Marie-Paule Odini HP Communication Media Solution CT Office ETSI NFV member: Steering Committee and Software Architecture co-chair ATIS SDN-NFV member Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Agenda 1- Definition de NFV ? 2- Specifications ETSI NFV & Use Cases 3- ETSI NFV, Openstack et OPNFV. 4- HP Helion & Openstack 2 Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. 1- What is NFV: Network Function Virtualization virtualize network functions: from Home or Enterprise Gateway to Access/Core telecom network & Data centers Leverage IT virtualization techniques for telco functions Use standard servers and storage Applicable to telco network functions Initiative from Tier 1 Operators & Vendors launched as a new Industry Specification Group (ISG) in ETSI.

2 Key Benefits Reduced equipment costs Faster time to market Resource sharing Targeted service introduction 3 Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, The information contained herein is subject to changeMore flexible, programmatic operations without notice. ETSI NFV architecture & interfaces (open area) NFV Management and (restricted area) Orchestration Os-Ma OSS/BSS Orchestrator Se-Ma Service, VNF and Infrastructure Description Or-Vnfm EMS 1 EMS 2 EMS 3 Ve-Vnfm VNF. Manager(s). VNF VNF 1 VNF 2 VNF 3 Or-Vi MANO. Vn-Nf Vi-Vnfm NFVI. Virtual Virtual Virtual Computing Storage Network Nf-Vi Virtualised Virtualisation Layer Infrastructure NFVI.

3 Vl-Ha Hardware resources Manager(s) VIM. Computing Storage Network Hardware Hardware Hardware 4 Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Execution reference points Other reference points Main NFV reference points ETSI 2012. All rights reserved ETSI NFV E2E Network Service with NFV. => Compose VNF and PNF to create Network Services End-to-end Network Service VNF-FG-2. VNF- VNF- VNF-FG Corresponding to 2A 2B. Network Function VNF-3. VNF-1 NFVS. Forwarding Graph VNF- 2C. Virtualisation Layer End Hardware Point resources Compute/storage Physical link Logical link Infrastructure 5 Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Virtualisation Development Company, The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.

4 Network ETSI NFV Use Cases Large Telecom Networks Regulated Roaming Services Use Description Case #1 Network Functions Virtualisation Infrastructure as a Service #2 Virtual Network Platform as a Service (VNPaaS). #3 Virtual Network Function as a Service (VNFaaS). #4 Virtualisation of Mobile Core Network and IMS Growing data/video traffic #5 Virtualisation of Mobile base station Unpredictible peaks #6 Virtualisation of the Home Environment Enterprise SLAs #7 Service Chains (VNF Forwarding Graphs) Government security #8 Virtualisation of CDNs (vCDN) Emergency services #9 Fixed Access Network Functions Virtualisation etc 6 Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.

5 Use Case: 3 GPP IMS MRF SOAP, JDBC, Telco Grade Media Server Environment LDAP, xCIP/LHS, .. Apps: IVR, VM . The AS interfaces Application Server ISC SIP to invoke & control interactive multimedia apps Sh SIP AS WEB AS. Sh Diameter interface to HSS for subscriber profile Ro SIP Invoking &. Ro Diameter towards Online charging system Rf Controlling Logic Servicing Logic Rf Diameter towards Offline charging system The MRF interfaces ISC (SIP) Cr (HTTP/HTTPs). Mr SIP for Media server control (Netann, etc.). O-Leg T-Leg Mb RTP/RTCP for media processing and interaction Cr HTTP, HTTPS, VoiceXML, REST for app interaction IMS MRB MRF-c net.

6 S-CSCF MRF-c Mr (SIP MRF-p Supports applications like IVR, Voice Mail, Voice-Video conference, NETANN/RFC5552. Includes multiple codecs support, real time transcoding MSCML, MediaCtrl). 7 Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Mb (RTP/RTCP). Ex#: IMS MSE/MRF modeling into VNF. The Multimedia Services Environment is decomposed into VNF . or VNFC : OCSEE. The IMS MRF VNF that groups the MRB and the MRF (composite WEB. VNF) composed of MRF-C, MRF-P and MRF Storage VNFC SIP AS. AS. The OCSEE Application server that includes a SIP AS function, a J2EE container, an internal WEB LB and a Reporting and AS AS.

7 Monitoring function, is it considered as VNFC (VNF Components) WEB Load Reporting Balancer &. The SIP Load Balancer is aimed to load balance the incoming Monitoring SIP Session towards several SIP AS instances. It's a signalling function that supports the ISC IMS interface AS storage is an external storage for the AS data (SIP & WEB) SIP Load AS. Balancer Storage 8 Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Ex#: IMS MRF VNF Descriptors (VNFD). The IMS MRF VNFD includes the description of the MRF cluster -MRB network & application configuration -MRF instances number -MRF storage instances number -Affinity rules -Anti-affinity rules -IP QoS network constraints for each vLAN.

8 (Bandwidth, Jitter, Delay, Packet Loss Tolerance). -etc 9 Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Ex#: Architecture & Lifecycle simplified 3 GPP IMS MSE/MRF. NFV Management and Orchestration OSS. OSS/BSS Os-Nfvo NFV Orchestrator 1- deploy new MRF MRF. Descriptor 2- read (XML file) Nfvo-Vnfm NFV Orchestrator & SW image NFV. VNF NFV NFVI. Service Catalog Instances Resources Catalog 2- allocate MRF VNF. 3- deploy Manager resources VeEn-Vnfm vMRF software 4-manage lifecycle vMRF EM vMRF VNF. (scaling etc) Manager VeNf-Vnfm VIM (ex Openstack ) vMRF Vnfm-Vi Vn-Nf Virtualization NFVI.

9 Nf-Vi Virtualized Infrastructure Nfvo-Vi (ex KVM). Manager(s). HW. (Compute, Storage, Networking) HP CMS. Legend Openstack 10 Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. HW. ETSI NFV SWA - VNF architecture VNF 1 VNF 1 VNFC. VNFC 1. 1 or VNFC VNFC. 2 3. Virtual container 1 VNFC = 1 container virtualization VNF w/ single component VNF w/ multiple components container (not just hypervisor). VNF 1 VNF 1. Scalability VNFC. VNFC [1,1] VNFC. VNFC [1,n]. Scale in/out or 1. 1 11. Scale up/down Autoscale, etc non-parallelizable VNFC parallelizable VNFC. (min. and max.)

10 # of instances). VNF 1 VNF 1 VNF 1 VNF State Diagram VNFC VNFC VNFC. or or S. 1 S 1 S 1. stateless VNFC stateful VNFC VNFC w/ externalized state Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. 11. ETSI 2013. All rights reserved ETSI SWA - VNFC to VNFC Communications An example of requirements Affinity Affinity SRIOV support DPDK support Affinity DPDK support SRIOV support 12 Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. ETSI NFV Management & Orchestration MANO. 13 Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, The information contained herein is subject to change without notice.