Copy OPNFV docs dir as documentation base.

Armband Fuel for aarch64 is very similar to amd64 in both
configuration and deployment, with a small difference in the build
process.

Therefore it makes sense to base our documentation on Jonas'
work in OPNFV Fuel.

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+.. This document is protected/licensed under the following conditions
+.. (c) Jonas Bjurel (Ericsson AB)
+.. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
+.. You should have received a copy of the license along with this work.
+.. If not, see <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>.
+
+Fuel configuration
+==================
+This section provides guidelines on how to install and
+configure the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a
+deployment tool including required software and hardware
+configurations.
+
+For detailed instructions on how to install the Brahmaputra release using
+Fuel, see *Reference 13* in section *"Fuel associated references"* below.
+
+Pre-configuration activities
+----------------------------
+
+Planning the deployment
+
+Before starting the installation of the Brahmaputra release of
+OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool, some planning must be
+done.
+
+Familiarize yourself with the Fuel by reading the
+following documents:
+
+- Fuel planning guide, please see *Reference: 8* in section *"Fuel associated references"* below.
+
+- Fuel user guide, please see *Reference: 9* in section *"Fuel associated references"* below.
+
+- Fuel operations guide, please see *Reference: 10* in section *"Fuel associated references"* below.
+
+- Fuel Plugin Developers Guide, please see *Reference: 11* in section *"Fuel associated references"* below.
+
+Before the installation can start, a number of deployment specific parameters must be collected, those are:
+
+#. Provider sub-net and gateway information
+
+#. Provider VLAN information
+
+#. Provider DNS addresses
+
+#. Provider NTP addresses
+
+#. Network overlay you plan to deploy (VLAN, VXLAN, FLAT)
+
+#. Monitoring Options you want to deploy (Ceilometer, Syslog, etc.)
+
+#. How many nodes and what roles you want to deploy (Controllers, Storage, Computes)
+
+#. Other options not covered in the document are available in the links above
+
+
+Retrieving the ISO image
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+First of all, the Fuel deployment ISO image needs to be retrieved, the
+Fuel .iso image of the Brahmaputra release can be found at *Reference: 2*
+
+Alternatively, you may build the .iso from source by cloning the
+opnfv/fuel git repository. Detailed instructions on how to build
+a Fuel OPNFV .iso can be found in *Reference: 14* at section *"Fuel associated references"* below.
+
+Hardware requirements
+---------------------
+Following high level hardware requirements must be met:
+
++--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+| **HW Aspect**      | **Requirement**                                      |
+|                    |                                                      |
++====================+======================================================+
+| **# of nodes**     | Minimum 5 (3 for non redundant deployment):          |
+|                    |                                                      |
+|                    | - 1 Fuel deployment master (may be virtualized)      |
+|                    |                                                      |
+|                    | - 3(1) Controllers (1 colocated mongo/ceilometer     |
+|                    |   role, 2 Ceph-OSD roles)                            |
+|                    |                                                      |
+|                    | - 1 Compute (1 co-located Ceph-OSD role)             |
+|                    |                                                      |
++--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+| **CPU**            | Minimum 1 socket x86_AMD64 with Virtualization       |
+|                    | support                                              |
++--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+| **RAM**            | Minimum 16GB/server (Depending on VNF work load)     |
+|                    |                                                      |
++--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+| **Disk**           | Minimum 256GB 10kRPM spinning disks                  |
+|                    |                                                      |
++--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+| **Networks**       | 4 Tagged VLANs (PUBLIC, MGMT, STORAGE, PRIVATE)      |
+|                    |                                                      |
+|                    | 1 Un-Tagged VLAN for PXE Boot - ADMIN Network        |
+|                    |                                                      |
+|                    | note: These can be run on single NIC - or spread out |
+|                    | over other nics as your hardware supports            |
++--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+
+For information on compatible hardware types available for use, please see
+*Reference: 11* in section *"Fuel associated references"* below.
+
+Top of the rack (TOR) Configuration requirements
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+The switching infrastructure provides connectivity for the OPNFV
+infrastructure operations, tenant networks (East/West) and provider
+connectivity (North/South); it also provides needed
+connectivity for the Storage Area Network (SAN). To avoid traffic
+congestion, it is strongly suggested that three physically separated
+networks are used, that is: 1 physical network for administration and
+control, one physical network for tenant private and public networks,
+and one physical network for SAN. The switching connectivity can (but
+does not need to) be fully redundant, in such case it and comprises a
+redundant 10GE switch pair for each of the three physically separated
+networks.
+
+The physical TOR switches are **not** automatically configured from
+the OPNFV reference platform. All the networks involved in the OPNFV
+infrastructure as well as the provider networks and the private tenant
+VLANs needs to be manually configured.
+
+Jumphost configuration
+----------------------
+The Jumphost server, also known as the "Fuel master" provides needed
+services/functions to deploy an OPNFV/OpenStack cluster as well functions
+for cluster life-cycle management (extensions, repair actions and upgrades).
+
+The Jumphost server requires 2 (4 if redundancy is required) Ethernet
+interfaces - one for external management of the OPNFV installation,
+and another for jump-host communication with the OPNFV cluster.
+
+Install the Fuel jump-host
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Mount the Fuel Brahmaputra ISO file as a boot device to the jump host
+server, reboot it, and install the Fuel Jumphost in accordance with installation instructions, see *Reference 13* in section *"Fuel associated references"*
+below.
+
+
+Platform components configuration
+---------------------------------
+
+Fuel-Plugins
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Fuel plugins enable you to install and configure additional capabilities for
+your Fuel OPNFV based cloud, such as additional storage types, networking
+functionality, or NFV features developed by OPNFV.
+
+Fuel offers an open source framework for creating these plugins, so there’s
+a wide range of capabilities that you can enable Fuel to add to your OpenStack
+clouds.
+
+The OPNFV Brahmaputra version of Fuel provides a set of pre-packaged plugins
+developed by OPNFV:
+
++--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+|  **Plugin name**   | **Short description**                                |
+|                    |                                                      |
++====================+======================================================+
+| OpenDaylight       | OpenDaylight provides an open-source SDN Controller  |
+|                    | providing networking features such as L2 and L3      |
+|                    | network control, "Service Function Chaining",        |
+|                    | routing, networking policies, etc.                   |
+|                    | More information on OpenDaylight in the OPNFV        |
+|                    | Brahmaputra release can be found in a separate       |
+|                    | section in this document.                            |
++--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+| ONOS               | ONOS is another open-source SDN controller which     |
+|                    | in essense fill the same role as OpenDaylight.       |
+|                    | More information on ONOS in the OPNFV                |
+|                    | Brahmaputra release can be found in a separate       |
+|                    | section in this document.                            |
+|                    |                                                      |
++--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+| BGP-VPN            | BGP-VPN provides an BGP/MPLS VPN service             |
+|                    | More information on BGP-VPN in the OPNFV             |
+|                    | Brahmaputra release can be found in a separate       |
+|                    | section in this document.                            |
+|                    |                                                      |
++--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+| OVS-NSH            | OVS-NSH provides a variant of Open-vSwitch           |
+|                    | which supports "Network Service Headers" needed      |
+|                    | for the "Service function chaining" feature          |
+|                    | More information on "Service Function Chaining"      |
+|                    | in the OPNFV Brahmaputra release can be found in a   |
+|                    | in a separate section in this document.              |
+|                    |                                                      |
++--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+| OVS-NFV            | OVS-NFV provides a variant of Open-vSwitch           |
+|                    | with carrier grade characteristics essential for     |
+|                    | NFV workloads.                                       |
+|                    | More information on OVS-NFV                          |
+|                    | in the OPNFV Brahmaputra release can be found in a   |
+|                    | in a separate section in this document.              |
+|                    |                                                      |
++--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+| KVM-NFV            | KVM-NFV provides a variant of KVM with improved      |
+|                    | virtualization characteristics essential for NFV     |
+|                    | workloads.                                           |
+|                    | More information on KVM-NFV                          |
+|                    | in the OPNFV Brahmaputra release can be found in a   |
+|                    | in a separate section in this document.              |
+|                    |                                                      |
++--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+| VSPERF             | VSPERF provides a networking characteristics test    |
+|                    | bench that facilitates characteristics/performance   |
+|                    | evaluation of vSwithches                             |
+|                    | More information on VSPERF                           |
+|                    | in the OPNFV Brahmaputra release can be found in a   |
+|                    | in a separate section in this document.              |
+|                    |                                                      |
++--------------------+------------------------------------------------------+
+
+*Additional third-party plugins can be found here:*
+*https://www.mirantis.com/products/openstack-drivers-and-plugins/fuel-plugins/*
+**Note: Plugins are not necessarilly compatible with each other, see section
+"Configuration options, OPNFV scenarios" for compatibility information**
+
+The plugins come prepackaged, ready to install. To do so follow the
+installation instructions provided in *Reference 13* provided in section
+*"Fuel associated references"* below.
+
+Fuel environment
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+A Fuel environment is an OpenStack instance managed by Fuel,
+one Fuel instance can manage several OpenStack instances/environments
+with different configurations, etc.
+
+To create a Fuel instance, follow the instructions provided in the installation
+instructions, see *Reference 13* in section *"Fuel associated references"* below.
+
+Provisioning of aditional features and services
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Although the plugins have already previously been installed,
+they are not per default enabled for the environment we just created.
+The plugins of your choice need to be enabled and configured.
+
+To enable a plugin, follow the installation instructions found in
+*Reference 13*, provided in section *"Fuel associated references"* below.
+
+For configuration of the plugins, please see section "Feature Configuration".
+
+Networking
+^^^^^^^^^^
+All the networking aspects need to be configured in terms of:
+- Interfaces/NICs
+- VLANs
+- Sub-nets
+- Gateways
+- User network segmentation (VLAN/VXLAN)
+- DNS
+- NTP
+- etc.
+
+For guidelines on how to configure networking, please refer to the
+installation instructions found in *Reference 13* provided in section
+*"Fuel associated references"* below.
+
+Node allocation
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Now, it is time to allocate the nodes in your OPNFV cluster to OpenStack-,
+SDN-, and other feature/service roles. Some roles may require redundancy,
+while others don't; Some roles may be co-located with other roles, while
+others may not. The Fuel GUI will guide you in the allocation of roles and
+will not permit you to perform invalid allocations.
+
+For detailed guide-lines on node allocation, please refer to the installation instructions found in *Reference 13*, provided in section *"Fuel associated references"* below.
+
+Off-line deployment
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+The OPNFV Brahmaputra version of Fuel can be deployed using on-line upstream
+repositories (default) or off-line using built-in local repositories on the
+Fuel jump-start server.
+
+For instructions on how to configure Fuel for off-line deployment, please
+refer to the installation instructions found in, *Reference 13*, provided
+in section *"Fuel associated references"* below.
+
+Deployment
+^^^^^^^^^^
+You should now be ready to deploy your OPNFV Brahmaputra environment - but before doing so you may want to verify your network settings.
+
+For further details on network verification and deployment, please refer to
+the installation instructions found in, *Reference 13*, provided in section
+*"Fuel associated references"* below.
+
+Fuel associated references
+--------------------------
+
+OPNFV
+~~~~~
+
+1) `OPNFV Home Page <www.opnfv.org>`_
+
+2) `OPNFV documentation- and software downloads <https://www.opnfv.org/software/download>`_
+
+OpenStack
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+3) `OpenStack Liberty Release artifacts <http://www.openstack.org/software/liberty>`_
+
+4) `OpenStack documentation <http://docs.openstack.org>`_
+
+OpenDaylight
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+5) `OpenDaylight artifacts <http://www.opendaylight.org/software/downloads>`_
+
+Fuel
+~~~~
+
+6) `The Fuel OpenStack project <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Fuel>`_
+
+7) `Fuel documentation overview <https://docs.fuel-infra.org/openstack/fuel/fuel-7.0/#guides>`_
+
+8) `Fuel planning guide <https://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-7.0/planning-guide.html>`_
+
+9) `Fuel user guide <http://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-7.0/user-guide.html>`_
+
+10) `Fuel operations guide <http://docs.mirantis.com/openstack/fuel/fuel-7.0/operations.html>`_
+
+11) `Fuel Plugin Developers Guide <https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Fuel/Plugins>`_
+
+12) `Fuel OpenStack Hardware Compatibility List <https://www.mirantis.com/products/openstack-drivers-and-plugins/hardware-compatibility-list>`_
+
+Fuel in OPNFV
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+13) OPNFV Installation instruction for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool
+
+14) OPNFV Build instruction for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool
+
+15) OPNFV Release Note for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV when using Fuel as a deployment tool