NFV Orchestration Demo using OpenStack Tacker. Illustrated using Brocade VNFs like Brocade 5600 Virtual Router and multi-VM Brocade Connectem Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC).

1. Brocade
NFV Orchestration Demo
using OpenStack Tacker

2. Agenda
• What is Tacker ?
• Tacker Features
• Tacker Workflow
• Demo
• Roadmap

3. What is Tacker?
Tacker
is an OpenStack
service addressing
NFV Orchestration
and VNF Manager
use-cases
using ETSI MANO
Architecture

4. Tacker Features
• VNF Catalog – onboard TOSCA templates
• VNF Lifecycle Management
• Parameterized TOSCA VNFD template
• VNF user-data injection
• VNF configuration injection – during Instantiation and Update
‒ SDN Controller using NetConf/YANG
‒ Custom management driver
• Loadable KPI & Health Monitoring Framework

5. Tacker Architecture
HEAT NFVO / VNFM / SFC API
Tacker
Management Network
Tenant Y
Tenant Z
Tenant Network
VNF
VM
Brocade
vEPC
VNF
Brocade
vRouter
56000
VNF
VNF X
VM
VNF Y
VM
VIM
(compute/network/storage)
Vendor X
Manager
Vendor Y
Manager
configuration
mgmt driver
service
configuration
openstack
Nova, neutron
Spin up/down
VMs
monitoring
driver
monitoring
monitoring
feedback
DB
Brocade
vRouter-VNF
DPI VNF
VNFD catalog
Brocade
vEPC VNF
NFVO / OSS / BSS
CLIHorizon(GUI)
infra
driver
API
vdu
creation
sfc
driver
OVS
Brocade SDN Controller
netconf/
yang OVSDB
VNF
Forwarding graph
FW VNF

6. Tacker Workflow
HEAT NFVO / VNFM / SFC API
Tacker
Management Network
Tenant Y
Tenant Z
Tenant Network
VNF
VM
VNF
FWaaS
VNF
DPI
VIM
(compute/network/storage)
Vendor X
Manager
Vendor Y
Manager
Manage Services
mgmt driver
service
configuration
openstack
Nova, neutron
Spin up/down
VMs
monitoring
driver
monitoring
monitoring
feedback
DB
VNFD catalogNFVO / OSS / BSS
CLIHorizon(GUI)
infra
driver
API
vdu
creation
sfc
driver
OVS
Brocade SDN Controller
netconf/
yang OVSDB
VNF
Forwarding graph
1
3
4
5
6
7
2
Brocade
5600-vRouter
DPI VNF
Brocade
vEPC VNF
FW VNF
Brocade
vEPC
VNF
Brocade
vRouter
VNF

7. Demo

8. Roadmap
• Multi-VIM Support
• Service Function Chaining (SFC) across VNFs
• Platform aware VNF Placement
• VNF Auto-Scaling
• Basic Network Service Descriptor (NSD) support

9. Resources
• Wiki -https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Tacker
• Mailing List
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/
[openstack-dev][tacker]
• Brocade booth
More information on NFV Orchestration using Tacker
• Contact:
‒ Sridhar Ramaswamy, sramasw@brocade.com
‒ Jeff Rametta, jrametta@brocade.com

10. Thank you