TECS Feature List

TECS Feature List

TECS Feature List

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1 TECS Compute Basic Software..........................................................................1

1.1 Supporting the Startup, Shutdown and Reset of VMs............................................1
1.2 Supporting the Pause and Recovery of VMs..........................................................1
1.3 Supporting Online VM Snapshot Backup and Recovery........................................1
1.4 Supporting VCPU Binding.......................................................................................2
1.5 Specifications of VMs..............................................................................................2
1.6 Supporting Various Types of VMs..........................................................................2
1.7 Supporting Shared Disks........................................................................................3
1.8 Supporting SR-IOV.................................................................................................3

2 TECS Network DVS Basic Software...................................................................3

2.1 VLAN Isolation........................................................................................................3
2.2 VLAN Trunk............................................................................................................4
2.3 DVS Statistics.........................................................................................................4
2.4 DVS Alarm..............................................................................................................5
2.5 DVS Resource Configuration..................................................................................5

3 TECS OpenStack Basic Software.......................................................................6

3.1 VM Information Query.............................................................................................6
3.2 Tenant Quota Management....................................................................................6
3.3 VM Template Management.....................................................................................6
3.4 VM Lifecycle Management......................................................................................7
3.5 VM Live Migration...................................................................................................7
3.6 Physical Machine Management..............................................................................8
3.7 CPU Virtualization...................................................................................................8
3.8 Host NUMA and CPU Binding................................................................................8
3.9 Huge Page..............................................................................................................9
3.10 Port Aggregation of SRIOV VMs.............................................................................9
3.11 VM IP Address Management................................................................................10
3.12 Virtual Network Lifecycle Management.................................................................10
3.13 Virtual Subnet Lifecycle Management..................................................................11
3.14 Cloud Hard Disk lifecycle management................................................................11
3.15 Volume Type Management...................................................................................12
3.16 Cloud Hard Disk Quota.........................................................................................12
3.17 Browser Compatibility...........................................................................................12
3.18 Alarm Reporting....................................................................................................13

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3.19 Notification Reporting............................................................................................13

3.20 Physical Machine Performance Statistics.............................................................13
3.21 VM Performance Statistics....................................................................................14
3.22 Installation of Operating System...........................................................................14
3.23 Installation of TECS System.................................................................................14
3.24 Hardware Alarm....................................................................................................15
3.25 Hardware Performance.........................................................................................15
3.26 User Management................................................................................................15
3.27 High Availability of Control Nodes.........................................................................16

4 TECS VIM Basic Software..................................................................................17

4.1 Performance Management...................................................................................17
4.2 Resource Monitoring.............................................................................................17
4.3 Fault Management................................................................................................17
4.4 Log Management..................................................................................................18
4.5 Dashboard............................................................................................................18
4.6 Topology Management.........................................................................................18
4.7 User Management................................................................................................18

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1 TECS Compute Basic Software

1.1 Supporting the Startup, Shutdown and Reset of VMs

Feature Description

 Starts, shuts down, and resets VMs.

 Forcedly shuts down a VM if an exception occurs in the VM.

1.2 Supporting the Pause and Recovery of VMs

Feature Description

With this feature, TECS can pause and restore VMs. It can pause a VM that is operating
without consuming CPU resources. It can also restore a VM that is paused. The status
of the VM is the same before being paused and after being restored.

1.3 Supporting Online VM Snapshot Backup and

Recovery

Feature Description

This feature is that VM creates image snapshot as a image file to backup the system
and data information. And then to create a new VM via the snapshot image, after the VM
is running, the system and data information is recovery as before.

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1.4 Supporting VCPU Binding

Feature Description

This feature is used to set the affinity between the VCPUs of a VM and the physical
CPUs of its host.

1.5 Specifications of VMs

Feature Description

 The memory of a VM is 50GB.

 The number of VCPUs of a VM is 20.

 The disk space of a VM is 1TB.

 The number of Network Interface Cards (NICs) of a VM is 8.

1.6 Supporting Various Types of VMs

Feature Description

TECS supports abundant guest Oss, such as Windows2008, Centos6.*, RHEL6.* and
etc..

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1.7 Supporting Shared Disks

Feature Description

This feature enables a shared disk to be used by multiple VMs. These VMs can read
and write to the share disk at the same time, but the cluster software in the VMs
guarantees the read and write mutexes.

1.8 Supporting SR-IOV

Feature Description

This feature enables a PCIE device to not only export multiple PCI physical functions,
but also export a group of virtual functions sharing the resources on the I/O device. This
feature enables SR-IOV for physical NICs, allowing VMs efficiently share physical NICs.

2 TECS Network DVS Basic Software

2.1 VLAN Isolation

Feature Description

VLANs operate in layer 2 and layer 3 of the OSI reference model. One VLAN is a
broadcast domain. VLANs communicate with each other through layer-3 routers. In
contrast to traditional LAN technologies, the VLAN technology is more flexible. It has the
following advantages:

 Reduces the management expenses for moving, adding, and modifying network
devices.

 Controls broadcast activities.

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 Improves network security.

In a computer network, a layer-2 network can be divided into multiple broadcast

domains. One broadcast domain corresponds to a user group. By default, the broadcast
domains are isolated from each other. Broadcast domains communicate with each other
through one or multiple routers. Such a broadcast domain is called a VLAN. The VLAN
isolation function ensures that the service flows in a VLAN are independent of those in
another VLAN, and they do not interfere with those in another VLAN. This function also
ensures that the ports in the same VLAN can communicate with each other, and they
are isolated from the ports in another VLAN.

The Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS) supports VLAN isolation. To achieve the purpose of
this function, the corresponding VLAN tags can be configured on the ports added to the
DVS or the TAP interfaces of VMs.

2.2 VLAN Trunk

Feature Description

The VLAN Trunk function is used to aggregate and bind VLANs, so that multiple VLANs
can share a physical link. The cascading port of two switches is set to the Trunk port.
When a switch sends a packet through the cascading port, it adds a tag to the packet,
so that other switches can identify the VLAN of the packet. After another switch receives
this packet, the switch only forwards the packet to the VLAN specified by the tag,
implementing intra-VLAN data transmission between switches.

In a trunk-type logic network configured on the cloud platform, the DVS can set a VLAN
Trunk list on the added port to implement the VLAN Trunk function.

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2.3 DVS Statistics

Feature Description

The DVS provides the packet statistics function based on ports and service flows, and
displays statistical information for users through the network management system
interface.

2.4 DVS Alarm

Feature Description

The DVS periodically detects the statuses of physical ports. When the status of a port
changes from UP to DOWN, the DVS reports an alarm indicating that the port is down.
When the status of the port changes from DOWN to UP, the DVS clears the alarm.
Alarms are reported to TECS network management system.

On the DVS, proper packet loss thresholds are set based on the port statistics
information. When the network traffic is overloaded, which means that a packet loss rate
is greater than the corresponding threshold, an abnormal traffic alarm is raised and sent
to TECS network management system, so that traffic load can be adjusted for services.

The DVS monitors the negotiated rate of each physical NIC in the service network. If the
auto-negotiation rate of a service NIC is less that the maximum rate of the port, an auto-
negotiation rate alarm of the port is raised and reported to TECS network management
system.

2.5 DVS Resource Configuration

Feature Description

Resource configurations include the core resource configuration and flow table amount
configuration. In the default scenario, a DVS occupies three physical CPU cores and

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supports a flow table of 1 MB. Resources can be configured for virtual switches in
accordance with the application scenarios, including the number of physical CPU cores
and the number of flow tables.

3 TECS OpenStack Basic Software

3.1 VM Information Query

Feature Description

Users can query basic information about each VM in command line mode or through
Web pages, including the operational status, detailed specifications, IP address,
physical host information and domain information of each VM.

3.2 Tenant Quota Management

Feature Description

Through the flexible tenant quota management, administrators can query the resource
quota limit and resource usage of each tenant, and set the resource quota of each
tenant based on the requirements and planning. Tenants can only query their own
resource quota limits and resource usage.

3.3 VM Template Management

Feature Description

This feature helps system administrators normalize VM templates and create VMs
through templates (flavor).

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To create VMs through a template, a system administrator needs to enter template

information, including the template name, number of CPUs, memory size, root disk size,
temporary disk size, swap disk size and template access permissions.

3.4 VM Lifecycle Management

Feature Description

Creating a VM refers to a procedure in which the system creates one Guest OS through
an image, and allocates the corresponding resources to it as needed.

Deleting a VM refers to a procedure in which the system removes the VM and reclaims
the resources occupied by the VM.

Starting, shutting down, and restarting a VM are the basic VM management functions,
which are the same as the basic management operations of physical machines.

Suspending a VM refers to a procedure for suspending a VM and recording its memory

in the persistent storage. Waking up a VM means to restore a VM in sleep mode from
the persistent storage and recovering its operation.

After a VM is locked, only administrators can operate this VM. Only administrators can
unlock VMs.

3.5 VM Live Migration

Feature Description

VMs on a host can be migrated to other hosts before host maintenance, reducing
service interruption.

VMs on a busy host can be migrated to idle hosts, improving the VM user experience
and implementing global service balancing.

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3.6 Physical Machine Management

Feature Description

This feature displays physical devices and their relationships through topologies, and
the status of blades and switches in shelves.

3.7 CPU Virtualization

Feature Description

The hypervisor virtualizes the physical CPU of a physical server to several vCPUs for
VMs. When multiple vCPUs are operating, the hypervisor dynamically schedules the
physical CPU among vCPUs.

3.8 Host NUMA and CPU Binding

Feature Description

After a VM is deployed, the processes corresponding to the vCPU of the VM always run
on a logic CPU. The operating system preferentially selects the vCPU-corresponding
local memory for the VM, improving the memory access rate.

Enhancement

After a VM is deployed, the VM is running on a logic CPU, and the operating system
preferentially uses the local memory. Because the VM-corresponding vCPU process is
not bound to a fixed logic CPU, the operating system allocates different logic CPUs to
the vCPU of the VM if load changes, but the memory data of the vCPU process will not
be moved to the local memory corresponding to the new logic CPU. In this case, the VM
may access remote memory. In view of this situation, the vCPU corresponding to the VM
is bound to a fixed logic CPU during the deployment of the VM, so the local memory will

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be accessed as frequently as possible. This feature accelerates memory access,

reduces the impact of the system load changes on VMs, and decreases the cache
switching delay caused by logic CPU switching.

3.9 Huge Page

Feature Description

The page size of a physical machine is increased from 4 KB to 2 MB or 1 GB, reducing

the memory size occupied by page tables, network address translation frequency and
the number of times that the TLB cache expires, and improving the memory access
performance. When a VM is using a huge page, the VM-require memory is allocated
during the VM startup process, improving the memory access rate of the VM.

Enhancement

Physical machines provide different sizes of huge pages. The required huge page size
can be selected for a VM during deployment. The VM is preferentially deployed on the
physical machine with the specified page size. If there is no physical machine providing
the specified page size, a physical machine with a different page size is selected for
deploying the VM.

3.10 Port Aggregation of SRIOV VMs

Feature Description

When a physical network is created on TECS system, two physical NICs can be
selected for the physical network, and the link aggregation mode can be set to Backup
mode or ON mode in accordance with the network requirements.

When a port is created, the port type must be set to bond. After a VM is created, two
network interfaces with the same MAC address can be viewed within the VM. After the
two network interfaces are aggregated in the VM, they can be used.

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If the status of a physical network interface changes, the network interfaces within the
VM change their statuses automatically.

For the port aggregation function in backup mode, TECS select one physical NIC as the
active NIC. The VM actively queries the current active NIC of TECS.

3.11 VM IP Address Management

Feature Description

TECS introduces the concept of virtual subnet. Multiple virtual subnets can be created
on a virtual network. During the creation of a subnet, the subnet mask, subnet IP
address, and the range of IP addresses that can be assigned to VMs can be specified.

If subnets are configured on the network that the interface of a VM is connected to, the
VM interface automatically assigns an IP address within the available IP address range
to the VM. Users can also specify IP addresses to VMs if they do not want to use the
system-allocated IP addresses.

If a DHCP service node is configured in the system, an IP can be assigned to a VM in

DHCP mode after the VM is started.

3.12 Virtual Network Lifecycle Management

Feature Description

 Virtual network creation: creates a new virtual network with the specified
parameters such as the network name and management status.

 Virtual network deletion: removes a virtual network. A virtual network is removed

after the system withdraws the occupied resources from the network.

 Virtual network update: edits the attributes of a virtual network, including the
network name and management status.

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 Virtual network listing: displays all virtual networks. Networks can by queried by
name.

3.13 Virtual Subnet Lifecycle Management

Feature Description

 Subnet creation: creates a network-related subnet.

 Virtual subnet deletion: removes a virtual subnet. A virtual subnet is removed after
the system withdraws the occupied resources from the subnet.

 Virtual subnet update: edits the attributes of a virtual subnet, including the subnet
name, IP address of the gateway, allocation pool, DNS, and host route.

 Virtual subnet listing: displays all virtual subnet information of a network, including
the ID, name, network segment, and available address range of each virtual
subnet.

3.14 Cloud Hard Disk lifecycle management

Feature Description

This feature supports the creation and deletion of volumes on disk array storage back-
ends (decided by the cinder volume drive configuration), and volume mounting and
unloading on VMs.

Volumes can be created in three modes by source.

If there is no source, a bland volume is to be created.

 Created from a mirror image: In this mode, a cloud system disk that can initiate a
cloud host is created.

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 Created from a snapshot: In this mode, a new volume is created from a volume
snapshot. This method is usually used to restore data from a snapshot.

 Created from a source volume: also called volume cloning. This method is used to
create a complete copy of the source volume.

3.15 Volume Type Management

Feature Description

A volume type is used to describe some specific attributes of volumes. These attributes
are represented by some key-values pairs. For example, to select a storage back end
from multiple storage back ends, the volume_backend_name attribute of the volume
type needs to be set. The system selects the corresponding storage back end in
accordance with the back end name specified by this attribute. To create volumes with
the same attributes, a volume type with these attributes can be defined first. Users can
specify the volume type when creating volumes, so the volumes have the corresponding
attributes.

3.16 Cloud Hard Disk Quota

Feature Description

This feature can efficiently control the storage resource use of tenants. Users can set,
view, and modify the quota settings. When the storage resources used by a tenant
exceed the upper limit, the tenant fails to create volumes.

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3.17 Browser Compatibility

Feature Description

The TECS system supports mainstream browsers compatible with HTML5, including
Internet Explorer9 or later, Chrome 21 or later.

3.18 Alarm Reporting

Feature Description

TECS system provides centralized management and storage of alarms and alarm
clearing information of each system component, and reports them to the external
network management system in real time by SNMP trap. The current alarms include
computing, storage, and network.

3.19 Notification Reporting

Feature Description

TECS system provides centralized management and storage of notifications of each

system component, and reports them to the external network management system in
real time by SNMP trap.

3.20 Physical Machine Performance Statistics

Feature Description

Physical machine performance indicators include:

 CPU usage of a physical machine

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 Total size and occupied size of a physical machine disk

 Total size and occupied size of physical machine memory

 Disk IO of a physical machine

 Network IO/bandwidth of a physical machine

3.21 VM Performance Statistics

Feature Description

VM performance indicators include:

 CPU usage of a VM

 Total size of a VM disk

 Total memory size and occupied memory size of a VM

 VM disk IO

 VM NIC IO

3.22 Installation of Operating System

Feature Description

A PXE server or USB can be made through the version issued by ZTE to install an
operating system for each node.

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3.23 Installation of TECS System

Feature Description

After an operating system is installed on each node, the configuration and TECS system
installation can be implemented on one node. The system automatically installs required
software packages on other nodes to complete TECS installation.

Enhancement

HA mode can be selected for installing control nodes.

3.24 Hardware Alarm

Feature Description

When a fault occurs, the system can report a hardware alarm to the network
management system, and the alarm can be cleared properly.

For example, when a fan is removed from a ZTE E9000, a hardware alarm indicating the
removal of the shelf fan is reported. When the fan is installed in the slot again, the
previous alarm is cleared from the active alarms and moved to the historical alarms.

3.25 Hardware Performance

Feature Description

Performance tasks can be created by granularity for performance data of blade server
(E9000) and disk array (KS3200).

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3.26 User Management

Feature Description

This feature allows creating users, assigning projects and permissions to users, deleting
users, modifying user attributes, querying all users or part of users by user name or user
ID, disabling users, and activating users.

3.27 High Availability of Control Nodes

Feature Description

The system allows control nodes to operate in active/standby two-server mode. The
active node externally provides services through floating IP addresses. The active node
provides the following functions:

 Monitors the heartbeat network, storage management network, and external

service network by monitoring the network port status and link connectivity.

 Monitors disks through the accessibility of the file system and disks, ensuring that
external users can use the files and storage services.

 Monitors the operating system through Watchdog, and resets the current node
when the operating system kernel is crashed or dead, ensuring that each node on
which the operating system is operating properly can externally provide services.

 Monitors the service program through the two-server cluster software, and restarts
the service program or switches the service program to another node when the
service program operates improperly, ensuring that the service program can
continuously provide services to the outside.

 Services should be started concurrently as many as possible, ensuring that the

system can be started quickly, reducing the switching time and the interruption time
of external services.

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4.1 Performance Management

Feature Description

The feature gets the measurement results of the measurement objects from its
managed cloud environment.

Users can set QoS alarms. If a performance indicator exceeds a preset threshold, the
system raises an alarm.

4.2 Resource Monitoring

Feature Description

The feature gets the current status of the computing resources, storage resources,
network resources, and virtual resources from the managed cloud environment. Users
can export historical monitoring data.

4.3 Fault Management

Feature Description

 Active alarm: Users can browse or query active alarms based on the specified
conditions.

 Historical alarm: Users can view cleared alarms and set the number of days to
retain historical alarms.

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 Alarm clearance: Users can manually clear alarms. Cleared alarms are stored in
historical alarm library, and are not presented as active alarms.

 Alarm export: All or selected alarms can be exported to an EXCEL or CSV file.

4.4 Log Management

Feature Description

This feature is easy for users to collect, store, and query logs. It automatically collects
operation and maintenance logs and service logs, and manages all logs through a
project.

4.5 Dashboard

Feature Description

This feature enables users to quickly determine the usage of the system. Users can
select information to display on the dashboard.

4.6 Topology Management

Feature Description

This feature displays physical devices and their relationships through topologies, and
the status of blades and switches in shelves.

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4.7 User Management

This feature allows creating users, assigning projects and permissions to users, deleting
users, modifying user attributes, querying all users or part of users by user name or user
ID, disabling users, and activating users.

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