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diff --git a/docs/userguide/introduction.rst b/docs/userguide/introduction.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..501d6391b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/userguide/introduction.rst @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. + +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 + +======== +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 CICD 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 CICD features and capabilities provide step by step +instructions for using features that have been configured according to the +installation and configuration instructions. |