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author | 2017-03-30 18:28:59 -0400 | |
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committer | 2017-03-31 04:36:36 +0000 | |
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tree | 92e3896d729eb8ac2daeb68b142decb425c1a32b /docs/release/scenarios/os-nosdn-ovs-ha/scenario.description.rst | |
parent | 9a1a1e3cd9ed2e8a3b960b63d4c740ae55abe836 (diff) |
Add and update apex sdn and ovs scenarios to Danube 1.0danube.2.0danube.1.0stable/danube
Include two odl_l3 scenarios and the no-sdn l2 ha scenario.
Change-Id: I6a3d447b42a2d69ce3e50e007a66e22668a1383c
Signed-off-by: Thomas F Herbert <therbert@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/release/scenarios/os-nosdn-ovs-ha/scenario.description.rst b/docs/release/scenarios/os-nosdn-ovs-ha/scenario.description.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..874bc9c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/release/scenarios/os-nosdn-ovs-ha/scenario.description.rst @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +.. OPNFV - Open Platform for Network Function Virtualization +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 +.. International License. +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 + +Scenario: "OpenStack - ovs-nfv" +============================= + +Scenario: apex-os-nosdn-ovs-ha + +"apex-os-ovs-ha" is a scenario developed as part of the OVS for NFV +OPNFV project. The main components of the "apex-os-nosdn-ovs-ha" scenario +are: + + - APEX (TripleO) installer (please also see APEX installer documentation) + - Openstack (in HA configuration) + - OVS/DPDK Open vSwitch with DPDK data plane virtual forwarder for tenant networking + +Introduction +============ + +NFV and virtualized high performance applications, such as video processing, +require Open vSwitch to be accelerated with a fast data plane solution that provides both +carrier grade forwarding performance, scalability and open extensibility. + +A key component of any NFV solution is the virtual forwarder, which should consist of +soft switch that includes an accelerated data plane component. For this, any virtual +switch should make use of +hardware accelerators and optimized cache operation to be run in user space. + +The "Openstack - Open vSwitch/DPDK" scenario provides +use-cases for deployment of NFV nodes instantiated by +an Openstack orchestration system on OVS/DPDK enabled compute nodes. + +A deployment of the "apex-os-nosdn-ovs-ha" scenario consists of 3 or more +servers: + + * 1 Jumphost hosting the APEX installer - running the Undercloud + * 1 Controlhost, which runs the Overcloud and Openstack services + * 1 or more Computehosts or nodes + +.. image:: ovs4nfv.png + +Tenant networking leverages Open vSwitch accelerated with a fast user space data path such +as DPDK. +Open VSwitch (OVS) with the Linux kernel module data path is used for all other +connectivity, such as connectivity to public networking "the +Internet" (i.e. br-ex) is performed via non-accelerated OVS. + +Features of the scenario +------------------------ + +Main features of the "apex-os-ovs-nosdn-ha" scenario: + + * Automated installation using the APEX installer + * Accelerated tenant networking using OVS/DPDK as the forwarder + +Networking in this scenario using OVS with accelerated User space IO. +--------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The apex-os-nosdn-ovs-ha scenario combines components from three open +source projects: OpenStack, Open vSwitch and DPDK. To make accelerated networking +available for this scenario Open vSwitch is bound via its netdev interface +with DPDK user space accelerated capability. + +Scenario Configuration +====================== + +Simply deploy this scenario by using the os-ovs-nosdn-ha.yaml deploy +settings file. + +Validated deployment environments +================================= + +The "os-odl_l2-ovs-ha" scenario has been deployed and tested +on the following sets of hardware: + * virtual deployments + * Not yet validated on UCS hardware. + + +Limitations, Issues and Workarounds +=================================== + +* _APEX-415 br-phy dpdk interfaces are not brought up by os-net-config + +References +========== + + + * OVS for NFV OPNFV project wiki: https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/ovsnfv + * Open vSwitch: http://openvswitch.org/ + * DPDK: http://dpdk.org + * OPNFV Danube release - more information: http://www.opnfv.org/colorado |