Boston
May 8-11, 2017

Event Details

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High Availablity and Scalability Management of VNF

Now network function virtualization(NFV) is growing rapidly and widely adopted by many telcom enterprises. In openstack Tacker takes the responsibility of building a Generic VNF Manager (VNFM) and a NFV Orchestrator (NFVO) to deploy and operate Network Services and Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) on the infrastructure platform. For the VNFs which can work as a loadbalancer or a firewall, Tacker needs to consider the availability of each VNF to ensure they are not overloaded or out of work. To prevent VNFs from being overloaded or down, Tacker need to make VNFs HA and auto-scaling. So in fact the VNFs of certain function should not be a single node, but a cluster.

That comes out a problem of cluster managing. In OpenStack environment there is a Clustering service called Senlin which provides scalability management and HA functions for the nodes, those features are exactly fit for Tacker's requirement.

In this talk we will give you a general introduction of this feature.


What can I expect to learn?

In this talk we introduce a way to build a high available and auto-scalable VNF cluster by integrating Senlin to Tacker project.

Thursday, May 11, 2:20pm-3:00pm (6:20pm - 7:00pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
NEC
Haiwei is a software engineer from NEC. He has been working in the OpenStackcommunity for more than 4 years. His main contributions include Nova, Tempest, Tacker andhe is also investigating OpenStack deployment using TripleO. Now he is a corecontributor of Senlin project which provides clustering service. Before moving to OpenStack,he has two yearsexperiences of smartphone's security enforcement. FULL PROFILE
Staff II Engineer of VMware
Xinhui Li is senior architect of VMware and leads the team working on NFV product development and integration with open ecosystem. She serves as ONAP TSC (Technique Steering Committee) member representing VMware and served as OPENO TSC representative. She has led the team of Multi-Cloud project as the PTL (Project Technique Leader) and delivered ONAP Amsterdam and Beijing releases. She is also... FULL PROFILE
SystemOS & Communication Software Expert Engineer
XueFeng Liu is a SystemOS & Communication software Expert Engineer at ZTE Corporation and a core of openstack Senlin project. He has nine-year work experience in the area of tele-communication network, SystemOS and distributed software. He was involved in the design and development of the communications products for commercial around the world. Currently, he is dedicated to communication... FULL PROFILE