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NFV Interop & Performance Benchmarking

A exible, customizable and extensible approach for carrying out performance engineering of VNFs and NFV Infrastructure

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NFV Interop & Performance Benchmarking

A exible, customizable and extensible approach for carrying out performance engineering of VNFs and NFV Infrastructure

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NFV Interop & Performance

Benchmarking
A flexible, customizable and extensible approach for carrying out
performance engineering of VNFs and NFV Infrastructure

Business Scenarios Requirements for


— Business Adoption of NFV is driven by actualizing NFV Interop & Performance
Network Virtualization in Data Center, WAN, and by
transforming NFV into Network Virtualization Benchmarking Framework
-as-a-Service
— Pre-deployment verification and validation
methodologies require supporting performance and
— Multi-party environment poses operational challenges interoperability assessment of VNFs in different NFV
to establish compatibility across deployed NFV Infrastructure deployment models
Infrastructure, Hypervisors, Controllers, VNF
products, and legacy Network Equipment — Establishing Functional Interoperability between
Devices, Virtual Infrastructure, and Management &
— NFV Serviceability scenarios are driving various Orchestration layers is becoming the predominant
integration & interoperable use cases, creating requirements
demand for modeling the cost, productivity and
quality indicators in Integrated Network architecture — DevOps Framework and integrated Automation
environment can accelerate the assessment of
functional and non-functional test coverage for SDN &
NFV adopted environment, and can provide metrics
with cost, profitability and quality indicators for real
Source: SDXCentral.com deployment

What HCL Offers?


Reusable NFV Test Cases & Test Scripts

NFV DevOps Objectives


In-house developed HCL’s own Black-box and
To measure & analyze VNF performance against different
NFV Benchmarking NFV Infrastructure configurations White-box NFV Evaluation
& Profiling Frameworks methodologies
To measure & analyze VNF Performance against different
NFV Infrastructure Operations & Maintenance Scenarios
(Live VNF Migration, VNF Failover, VNF Scale up, VNF
Startup Latency)
HCL’s NFV Infrastructure HCL’s VNF & Platform
Deployment & Configuration To profile & assess VNF and NFVI’s working conditions, Engineering
thresholds, and possible improvement areas
Best Practices Best Practices

HCL’s Telco Performance


Engineering Processes
Reference Architecture for VNF / NFVI Benchmarking

VNF & NFVI KPI &


Thresholds
KPI Analysis for profiling VNF-NFVI
nteroperability and Performance
VNF-NFVI Deployment
Descriptors

VNF
(OEM specific VNF)

<Simulated Demand Models>

Traffic

Automation Test
Operator’s Generator
<Traffic>
Network Hypervisors

Test Result

Reporting
Manager

Metrics &
NFVI Probe
VIM

vSwitches <VNF & NFVI KPI>

NFVI
DPDK Enforcer
<Dynamic updates on
VNF-NFVI Deployment
NFV Infrastructure Descriptors>
Automation Framework

2ndParty / 3rdParty

HCL Value Add

• Reduces NFV Performance Engineering manual effort by up to 30%

• Provides options for running customizable test cycle based on nature of integration, performance and
interoperability requirements

• Increased test coverage for VNF, NFVI, Controller, and Orchestrators while supporting Iterative integration and
deployment

• Streamlined benchmark reports and test metrics

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