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diff --git a/docs/userguide/introduction.rst b/docs/userguide/introduction.rst deleted file mode 100644 index d4ee81143..000000000 --- a/docs/userguide/introduction.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,88 +0,0 @@ -.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. - -.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 - -====================== -Userguide Introduction -====================== - -Overview --------- - -The project "NFV Hypervisors-KVM" makes collaborative efforts to enable NFV -features for existing hypervisors, which are not necessarily designed or -targeted to meet the requirements for the NFVI.The KVM4NFV scenario -consists of Continuous Integration builds, deployments and testing -combinations of virtual infrastructure components. - -KVM4NFV Features ----------------- - -Using this project, the following areas are targeted- - -* Minimal Interrupt latency variation for data plane VNFs: - * Minimal Timing Variation for Timing correctness of real-time VNFs - * Minimal packet latency variation for data-plane VNFs -* Inter-VM communication -* Fast live migration - -Some of the above items would require software development and/or specific -hardware features, and some need just configurations information for the -system (hardware, BIOS, OS, etc.). - -We include a requirements gathering stage as a formal part of the project. -For each subproject, we will start with an organized requirement stage so -that we can determine specific use cases (e.g. what kind of VMs should be -live migrated) and requirements (e.g. interrupt latency, jitters, Mpps, -migration-time, down-time, etc.) to set out the performance goals. - -Potential future projects would include: - -* Dynamic scaling (via scale-out) using VM instantiation -* Fast live migration for SR-IOV - -The user guide outlines how to work with key components and features in -the platform, each feature description section will indicate the scenarios -that provide the components and configurations required to use it. - -The configuration guide details which scenarios are best for you and how to -install and configure them. - -General usage guidelines ------------------------- - -The user guide for KVM4NFV features and capabilities provide step by step -instructions for using features that have been configured according to the -installation and configuration instructions. - -Scenarios User Guide --------------------- - -The procedure to deploy/test `KVM4NFV scenarios`_ in a nested virtualization -or on bare-metal environment is mentioned in the below link. The kvm4nfv user guide can -be found at docs/scenarios - -.. code:: bash - - http://artifacts.opnfv.org/kvmfornfv/docs/index.html#kvmfornfv-scenarios-overview-and-description - -.. _KVM4NFV scenarios: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/kvmfornfv/docs/index.html#kvmfornfv-scenarios-overview-and-description - -The deployment has been verified for `os-nosdn-kvm-ha`_, os-nosdn-kvm-noha, `os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk-ha`_, -`os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk-noha`_ and `os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk_bar-ha`_, `os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk_bar-noha`_ test scenarios. - -For brief view of the above scenarios use: - -.. code:: bash - - http://artifacts.opnfv.org/kvmfornfv/docs/index.html#scenario-abstract - -.. _os-nosdn-kvm-ha: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/kvmfornfv/docs/index.html#kvmfornfv-scenarios-overview-and-description - -.. _os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk-ha: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/kvmfornfv/docs/index.html#os-nosdn-kvm-nfv-ovs-dpdk-ha-overview-and-description - -.. _os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk-noha: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/kvmfornfv/docs/index.html#os-nosdn-kvm-nfv-ovs-dpdk-noha-overview-and-description - -.. _os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk_bar-ha: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/kvmfornfv/docs/index.html#os-nosdn-kvm-nfv-ovs-dpdk_bar-ha-overview-and-description - -.. _os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk_bar-noha: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/kvmfornfv/docs/index.html#os-nosdn-kvm-nfv-ovs-dpdk_bar-noha-overview-and-description |