Cloudify NFV at Intel NFV event 2015(gigaspaces)

1. NFV Orchestration for
Optimal Performance

2. Hello There
Arthur Berezin
Director of product - Cloudify, GigaSpaces
Sivan Barzily
Director of product NFV - GigaSpaces

3. Agenda
◇ The Challenge Data intensive VNFs
◇ The Environment DPA and EPA
◇ The Missing Link Smart Orchestration
◇ Introducing Cloudify
◇ Tying It All Together Use Case

4. The Challenge

5. 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

7. The Environment

8. 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
?

9. The Missing Link
Environment Aware Orchestration

11. Introducing Cloudify
Pure-Play Orchestrator based on TOSCA

12. APIs
Automation
*-as-a-Service

13. Awareness
Reaction to Self
Software-Defined-Operator
APIs
Automation
*-as-a-Service

14. The Reality

15. 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?

16. 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

17. “ The only constant is change”
-Unknown

18. WHAT IF
You could orchestrate and
manage any VNF the same
way?

19. Orchestrating VNF
Blueprints with TOSCA
Topology Workflow Policy
(Topology Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications)

20. VM
Container
VNF Blueprint
VM
Container
Bono
VM
Sprout Homer
HostedOn
ConnectedTo
Network A Network B
Subnet Subnet
Node Type:
VM
ConnectedTo

21. VM
Container
VNF Blueprint
VM
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)

22. VNF
Blueprint
(TOSCA)
Infrastructure
Plugins
Container
Plugins
Conf. Mgmt
Plugins
● Provision
● Configure
● Monitor
● Manage
Monitoring &
Alarming

23. VNF
Blueprint
(TOSCA)
Infra
Plugins
Container
Plugins
Conf Mgmt
Plugins
● Provision
● Configure
● Monitor
● Manage
Monitoring &
Alarming

24. 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.

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

26. How
Cloudify
Fits in
ETSI NFV ?
Orchestrator
VNF Manager

27. Tying It All Together

28. Requirements:
● SR-IOV
● DPDK
● etc
VNFD
EPA Enabled VIM
NFVO
Exposing Platform Capabilities
NFVI

29. Use Cases

32. OPNFV Functest vIMS

33. 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!

34. 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

35. Thank You
Questions?
Find us at:
◇ Twitter @CloudifySource
◇ email info@gigaspaces.com