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diff --git a/docs/development/requirements/use_cases/georedundancy.rst b/docs/development/requirements/use_cases/georedundancy.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..35336bd --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/development/requirements/use_cases/georedundancy.rst @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 + +Georedundancy +============= +Georedundancy refers to a configuration which ensures the service continuity of +the VNFs even if a whole datacenter fails. + +It is possible that the VNF application layer provides additional redundancy +with VNF pooling on top of the georedundancy functionality described here. + +It is possible that either the VNFCs of a single VNF are spread across several +datacenters (this case is covered by the OPNFV multi-site project [MULTISITE]_ +or different, redundant VNFs are started in different datacenters. + +When the different VNFs are started in different datacenters the redundancy +can be achieved by redundant VNFs in a hot (spare VNF is running its +configuration and internal state is synchronized to the active VNF), +warm (spare VNF is running, its configuration is synchronized to the active VNF) +or cold (spare VNF is not running, active VNFs configuration is stored in a +persistent, central store and configured to the spare VNF during its activation) +standby state in a different datacenter from where the active VNFs are running. +The synchronization and data transfer can be handled by the application or by +the infrastructure. + +In all of these georedundancy setups there is a need for a network connection +between the datacenter running the active VNF and the datacenter running the +spare VNF. + +In case of a distributed cloud it is possible that the georedundant cloud of an +application is not predefined or changed and the change requires configuration +in the underlay networks when the network operator uses network isolation. +Isolation of the traffic between the datacenters might be needed due to the +multi-tenant usage of NFVI/VIM or due to the IP pool management of the network +operator. + +This set of georedundancy use cases is about enabling the possibility to select a +datacenter as backup datacenter and build the connectivity between the NFVIs in +the different datacenters in a programmable way. + +The focus of these uses cases is on the functionality of OpenStack. It is not +considered how the provisioning of physical resources is handled by the SDN +controllers to interconnect the two datacenters. + +As an example the following picture (:numref:`georedundancy-before`) shows a +multi-cell cloud setup where the underlay network is not fully meshed. + +.. figure:: images/georedundancy-before.png + :name: georedundancy-before + :width: 50% + +Each datacenter (DC) is a separate OpenStack cell, region or instance. Let's +assume that a new VNF is started in DC b with a Redundant VNF in DC d. In this +case a direct underlay network connection is needed between DC b and DC d. The +configuration of this connection should be programmable in both DC b and DC d. +The result of the deployment is shown in the following figure +(:numref:`georedundancy-after`): + +.. figure:: images/georedundancy-after.png + :name: georedundancy-after + :width: 50% + +.. toctree:: + georedundancy_cells.rst + georedundancy_regions_insances.rst + +Conclusion +---------- + An API is needed what provides possibility to set up the local and remote + endpoints for the underlay network. This API present in the SDN solutions, but + OpenStack does not provide an abstracted API for this functionality to hide + the differences of the SDN solutions. |