Cisco NFVI Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure Carrier Grade NFV

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2 Cisco NFVI Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure Carrier Grade NFV Paul Cernick, Technical Solutions Architect Puneet Konghot, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Naren Narendra, Senior Product Manager Session ID:

3 Presenters Paul Cernick Technical Solutions Architect Global Service Provider Architecture CCIE #5383 R&S + SP Puneet Konghot Senior Technical Marketing Engineer Cloud and Virtualization Naren Narendra Senior Product Manager Cloud and Virtualization

4 SPs are Approaching NFV in Multiple Ways Different Solutions Required to Address Different Buying Centers NFV Applications Use Case Led Top-down approach Business outcome driven Buying Center BU/Biz Vertical SPs OSS/BSS Use Case Specific, e.g. vms, VPC Service and Infrastructure Policies EMS EMS EMS EMS VNF VNF VNF VNF Virtualized Infrastructure Hardware, VIM (OpenStack) and SDN Controller Physical Infrastructure (Compute + Storage + Network) Includes VNF-M and Management NFV Orchestrator and Orchestration (MANO) Modular offer with NSO, ESC, CTCM Orchestration Led Common MANO solution for different use cases Buying Center NMS/OSS team Emerging trend, needs packaging Infrastructure Led Bottom-up approach Buying Center Network and DC infrastructure team Infrastructure led approach aka NFVI is gaining prominence! 5

5 NFVI What Our Customers Are Asking Cisco for? Carrier Class Performance Use Case Agnostic Infrastructure Open Standards Based, Modular and Elastic Easy to use with Unified Management Integrated, Tested and Validated Solution with Single Point of Ownership Service Velocity Customer Experience Open Architecture 6

6 NFVI Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure + = NFVI Hardware Software The combination of Hardware and Software components that build the environment in which Virtual Functions (VNFs) are deployed 7

7 Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure ETSI definition OSS/BSS EM 1 EM 2 EM 3 VNF 1 VNF 2 VNF 3 NFV MANO NFVO Hardware + = NFVI Software Virtual Compute Compute NFVI Virtual Storage Virtualization Layer Hardware Resources Storage ETSI NFVI Scope Virtual Network Network VNF-M (VNF VNFM Managers) VIM NFVI - Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure Is the totality of all hardware and software components that build the environment in which VNFs are deployed VIM - Virtualized Infrastructure Manager Controls and manages the NFVI compute, storage, and network resources 8

8 UCSD Assurance Unified Management with assurance. Cisco NFV Architecture North Bound APIs Legend Virtual Network Functions Cisco and Third Party CSR ASAv vnam vips vpc-di vims Video Opt. Third Party Cisco ESC VNF Manager NFV-O and Resource Orchestration NSO Network Services Orchestrator enabled by Tail-f or Third Party* Network VIM VTS or APIC* or ODL* or or Third Party Third Party* API Virtual Infrastructure Manager Cisco VIM based on RHEL OSP GUI Linux (RHEL, Hyper Visor (KVM), Host Packages, Software Defined Storage Cisco Physical Infrastructure Compute (UCS) Network Storage Ceph Cisco NFVI Scope * Roadmap 9

9 UCSD Assurance Unified Management with assurance. NFVI Platform Use Cases Legend Business Services Mobility Media API Virtual Infrastructure Manager Cisco VIM based on RHEL OSP GUI Linux (RHEL, Hyper Visor (KVM), Host Packages, Software Defined Storage Cisco NFVI Scope Cisco Physical Infrastructure Compute (UCS) Network Storage Ceph 10

10 Use Cases are Varied, so is NFVI Cust. Prem. vbranch, Analytics Access Cell Site/C-RAN, Virtualized GPON, IOT, Analytics Edge Virtual PE, vms, Security Gateway vbng, vcdn Mobile Edge Computing, Small Cell Gateway, IOT Distributed Gaming, Analytics Large DCs Virtual Packet Core, vms, vgi-lan, vims, High Scale Virtualized Media Encoding, vcdn, Cloud DVR, Virtualized RR, IOT, Analytics Co- Lo/Peering vcdn/cache, vms, Transit Service Chain, Virtual PE, vddos, Analytics Cloud Hosted Everything we want to deliver As-a-Service SP Owned and Managed VPN CPE Carrier- E/Transport Edge DCI CIS Data Centers Peering Internet Edge DCI Public Cloud Cust. Prem. Access Aggregation Core and Edge Cloud 11

11 UCSD Assurance Unified Management with assurance. Cisco NFVI Solution Leading Industry Partnerships Legend Integrated platform Design and Validation Certified by Red Hat Joint Engineering Single Point of Procurement Single Point of Technical Support Performance Acceleration, Enhanced Platform Awareness API Virtual Infrastructure Manager Cisco VIM based on RHEL OSP GUI Linux (RHEL, Hyper Visor (KVM), Host Packages, Software Defined Storage Cisco NFVI Scope Cisco Physical Infrastructure Compute (UCS) Network Storage Ceph 13

12 Cisco NFVI Pod Packaging Carrier Grade Easy to Manage Modular Configuration Pre-integrated + Validated Scalable Advanced Services Single Point of Ownership Compute Expansion Module Storage Expansion Module 15

13 Cisco NFV Infrastructure Hardware Node Flavor C-series B-Series Management Node UCS C240 M4 UCS C240 M4 Storage Node #1 UCS C240 M4 UCS C240 M4 Storage Node #2 UCS C240 M4 UCS C240 M4 Storage Node #3 UCS C240 M4 UCS C240 M4 Control Nodes #1 UCS C220 M4 UCS B200 M4 Control Nodes #2 UCS C220 M4 UCS B200 M4 Control Nodes #3 UCS C220 M4 UCS B200 M4 Compute Node #1 UCS C220 M4 UCS B200 M4 : UCS C220 M4 UCS B200 M4 : UCS C220 M4 UCS B200 M4 Compute Node #32 UCS C220 M4 UCS B200 M4 Fabric Interconnect #1 Not applicable UCS-FI-6296UP Fabric Interconnect #2 Not applicable UCS-FI-6296UP Top-of-rack Switch #1 Nexus C9372PX Nexus C9372PX Top-of-rack Switch #2 Nexus C9372PX Nexus C9372PX Compute Node Flavors Platinum Gold Silver 16

14 NFVI Compute and Storage Cisco UCS Programmable Servers Extends Abstraction Beyond the Hypervisor to System Elements Infrastructure Automation Through API and Policy Truly Elastic Fully Orchestrated Workload Defined Virtual Resource Pools Infrastructure Management Programmable Infrastructure Virtual Pool of Resources XML API Automated and Dynamic 17

15 NFVI UCS Compute Servers Unified Fabric (LAN, SAN and Management) M4 based Rack and Blade servers UCS B200 M4 2 CPU 768GB Memory, 24 DIMMs 80G IO UCS C220 M4 1 RU 2 CPU 768 GB, 24 DDR4 DIMMs 2 PCIe expansion slots UCS C240 M4 2 RU 2 CPU 768 GB, 24 x DDR4 DIMMs 6 PCIe expansion slots 48TB LFF storage Third Gen Virtual Interface Card Mezzanine, Rack PCIe, mlom 10Gb SFP+, 10GBaseT, 40Gb QSFP 18

16 NFVI Networking Nexus 9300 Programmable Switches 9332 QSFP+ (32x40G) * 9372(E) SFP+ (48x10+6x40G) 9372 (E) Copper (48x10+6x40G) Copper (96x10+6x40G)* * Roadmap 19

17 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. 20

18 Cisco Virtualized Infrastructure Manager Modularized Capabilities Deployment capabilities Operational capabilities Control Plane Operational capabilities Data Plane User input and configuration validation. Bare-metal Linux install. Storage cluster (Ceph) deployment. Openstack install. Cloud high availability and software driven network control. Upgrade/Update. Enhanced logging and health monitoring. Integrated test and verification tools. Highly available and high throughput network data plane. Distributed and highly available storage. Automated performance and scale tests. 21

19 Cisco VIM Virtualized Infrastructure Manager Installer and Life Cycle Manager VM throughput Testing Logging/Monitoring Cisco VIM Docker Containers HA Verification Health Checks 22

20 NFVI Containerized CI Customizable Continuous Integration Pipeline TEST RH OSP RPMs Cisco Patches Continuous Integration System BUILD Docker Containers Repo 23

21 Containerized Install, Update and Upgrade Container-Based Deployment NFVI Controller Nodes Docker Containers Repo Compute Nodes Storage Nodes Management Cisco Customer Controlled 24

22 Cisco VIM Installer Bare-Metal Deployment Utilizes latest modern toolsets: Python, Ansible Innovative use of UCS CIMC APIs to configure HW Deploys RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and RHEL OpenStack Platform (OSP) Containerized Deployment of OpenStack Services Verifiable HA Deployment 25

23 Cisco VIM Installer OpenStack is hard to deploy: Several installers, each with its own limitations (especially for high availability) Very few fully verified/tested combinations of hardware and software OpenStack installers do not do bare-metal installation/configurations Bare-metal Install Common Setup Physical host/ network configurations Physical disk configurations Linux operating system/ packages installation License Configurations and System Updates Linux packages/services setup Application/ Data Level Verifications OpenStack Control/ Management Verifications OpenStack Service Level Verifications OpenStack Installation Storage (Ceph) installation and configuration Verifications Orchestration Storage Setup 26

24 Deploy Underlay Networking API OpenStack API end points for managing/using the NFVI External Link to world beyond the cloud via OpenStack virtual routers (L3 agent) Management/Provisioning network PXE boot and Openstack inter-service communication Provider Link to existing infrastructure networks Tenant Inter VM traffic via OpenStack tenant networks Storage Ceph data replication traffic Provider API Management/Provisioning Tenant External Storage Control Node Control Host Control Host Compute Node Compute Host Storage Node Storage Host Storage Host Management Node Build packages and containers Input Validation Bare-Metal Install Common Node Level Setup Storage (Ceph) Setup Openstack Service Orchestration Verifications/ Monitoring 27

25 NFVI Full Life Cycle Management Add and remove of compute nodes to scale the pod on demand Replacement of control nodes in case of maintenance Cisco NFVI Replacement of storage nodes in case of maintenance 28

26 Automated Software Updates and Upgrades Update/upgrade on demand Update the entire cloud with patches and security updates Cisco NFVI Option to rollback to previous version 29

27 CloudPulse OpenStack Health Check Control Plane Reliability Cisco created VNFM (ESC) VNFO (NSO) Portal Operator Cloud Application OpenStack API Tests CloudPulse REST API Operator Tests CloudPulse OpenStack Health Service API - HTTPS SSH OpenStack Services OpenStack Nodes Hypervisors and Controllers OpenStack 32

28 VMTP VM Throughput and Performance Data Plane Performance Validation Cisco created Validate end-to-end connectivity Perform tests for various topologies and configurations VMs on same server VMs on different servers East-West, North-South TCP, UDP, ICMP Floating IP NAT Measure and report essential attributes Throughput Delay 33

29 KloudBuster Data Plane and Storage Scale Testing Cisco created VM/Application level scale testing VM-to-VM HTTP scale tests VM-to-Storage IOPS and latency tests Scales up to 1000s of VMs 1000s of connections Test scalability in conjunction with High Availability What happens to latency at high scale when one or more components go down? KloudBuster HTTP Monitoring Test Report KloudBuster Storage Test Report 35

30 ELK Stack and Grafana Log Management and System Monitoring Platform LOG Logstash Forwarder (logs) and collected (metrics) on all nodes Data Collection and Transformation Agent Analytics Engine and DataStore Data Exploration and Visualization Interface 36

31 Centralized Logging ELK Stack Logging/Monitoring Enhanced centralized logging using ELK Stack LogStash forwarder on all control/compute nodes forwards logs to LogStash on build/management host Kibana dashboard for viewing logs and ElasticSearch for searching through logs LogStash Forwarder Logs LogStash Forwarder Logs LogStash Kibana Management / Provisioning Network ElasticSearch Control Node(s) Compute Node(s) Build/Management Node 37

32 Centralized Host Level Monitoring ELK Stack and Grafana Build Node Web UI HOSTs Installer vmtp Kibana Elastic Search Grafana dmesg audit syslog docker containers vm Cpu mem network logstash System logs Logstash-fwd collected System metrics mgmt.network Pro-active monitoring of host parameters and OpenStack service containers Collect CPU, memory, network, storage and container metrics at a central location Troubleshoot and tune the system for high performance and scale scenarios 38

33 Kibana and Grafana Dashboards Enhanced Centralized Logging using ELK Stack and Metrics Visualization using Grafana ElasticSearch for search and analytics Kibana dashboard to view consolidated system wide logs Grafana dashboard for system metrics visualization 39

34 Cloud99 Framework for OpenStack HA Testing Control Plane Reliability Cisco created HAProxy Keepalived Neutron Glance Keystone nova cinder horizon Load the cloud: concurrent relevant control/data plane tests Process or node level disruption of service Monitor services Ensure no disruption for existing cloud resources!

35 Cloud99 in Action Control Plane Reliability Node disruptions Controlled disruptions Network disruptions Process disruptions! Stress the cloud Data plane Monitor Health Control plane Scale Test Service, Node and Network Initially vary only a few parameters at a time Operational availability tests On-Demand tests using Cloud99 41

36 Cisco UCS Director Network NFVI Compute VMs Storage On-Demand Automated Delivery Domain Managers OS and Virtual Machines VM VM Bare Metal Policy-Driven Provisioning Compute Compute and Hypervisor UCS Director Unified Management End-to-End Infrastructure Automation and Lifecycle Management Network Storage A Network and Services Tenant A B Tenant B C Tenant C 42

37 NFVI Monitoring with Zenoss Automated Topology Network UCS Integrated Infrastructure Compute VMs Storage OS and Virtual Machines VM App OS OS OS OS VM App OS Bare Metal Virtualized and Bare-Metal Out-of-box monitoring rules and thresholds Centralized console Compute Compute and Hypervisor Cisco NFVI Monitoring (Zenoss platform) Performance and Capacity Management Real-time infrastructure stack monitoring Network Storage Network devices Storage devices 43

38 Why Cisco NFVI Carrier Grade Open Elastic Cloud Networking Multi Domain Rich Partnerships 47

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