and new code.
OPNFV focuses on building NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) and Virtualised Infrastructure
-Management (VIM) by integrating components from upstream projects such as OpenDaylight, ONOS, OpenContrail,
+Management (VIM) by integrating components from upstream projects such as OpenDaylight, ONOS, Tungsen Fabric,
OVN, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ceph Storage, KVM, Open vSwitch, and Linux.
More recently, OPNFV has extended its portfolio of forwarding solutions to include DPDK, fd.io and ODP,
is able to run on both Intel and ARM commercial and white-box hardware, support VM, Container and
BareMetal workloads, and includes Management and Network Orchestration MANO components primarily
-for application composition and management in the Danube release.
+for application composition and management in the Fraser release.
These capabilities, along with application programmable interfaces (APIs) to other NFV
elements, form the basic infrastructure required for Virtualized Network Functions (VNF)
OPNFV Platform Overview Diagram
-.. image:: ../images/diagram_euphrates.png
+.. image:: ../images/diagram_fraser.png
:alt: Overview infographic of the opnfv platform and projects.
Community labs are hosted by OPNFV member companies on a voluntary basis.
The Linux Foundation also hosts an OPNFV lab that provides centralized CI
and other production resources which are linked to community labs.
-Future lab capabilities will include the ability easily automate deploy and test of any
-OPNFV install scenario in any lab environment as well as on a nested "lab as a service"
-virtual infrastructure.
+
+The Lab-as-a-service (LaaS) offering provides developers to readily access NFV infrastructure on demand.
+Ongoing lab capabilities will include the ability easily automate deploy and test of any OPNFV install
+scenario in any lab environment using a concept called “Dynamic CI”.
OPNFV Software Platform Architecture
====================================
OPNFV currently uses Linux on all target machines, this can include Ubuntu, Centos or SUSE Linux. The
specific version of Linux used for any deployment is documented in the installation guide.
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Networking Technologies
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+=======================
+---------------
SDN Controllers
---------------
-
OPNFV, as an NFV focused project, has a significant investment on networking technologies
and provides a broad variety of integrated open source reference solutions. The diversity
of controllers able to be used in OPNFV is supported by a similarly diverse set of
interface devices (e.g., vNICs) managed by other OpenStack services (e.g. Nova).
* OpenDaylight: addresses multivendor, traditional and greenfield networks, establishing the
industry’s de facto SDN platform and providing the foundation for networks of the future.
-* OpenContrail: An open source SDN controller designed for cloud and NFV use cases. It has an
+* Tungsen Fabric: An open source SDN controller designed for cloud and NFV use cases. It has an
analytics engine, well defined northbound REST APIs to configure and gather ops/analytics data.
* OVN: A virtual networking solution developed by the same team that created OVS. OVN stands for
Open Virtual Networking and is dissimilar from the above projects in that it focuses only on overlay networks.
-
+----------
Data Plane
----------
-
OPNFV extends Linux virtual networking capabilities by using virtual switching
and routing components. The OPNFV community proactively engages with the following open source
communities to address performance, scale and resiliency needs apparent in carrier
* DPDK: a set of libraries that bypass the kernel and provide polling mechanisms, instead of interrupt based operations,
to speed up packet processing. DPDK works with both OVS and FD.io.
+----
MANO
----
-
-OPNFV integrates open source MANO projects for NFV orchestration and VNF management.
-New MANO projects are constantly being added, currently OPNFV integrates:
-* OpenBaton: Open Baton is a ETSI NFV compliant Management and Orchestration (MANO) Framework.
- It enables virtual Network Services deployments on top of heterogeneous NFV Infrastructures.
- OpenBaton is also used to deploy vIMS (clearwater and openIMS).
-
+OPNFV integrates open source MANO projects for NFV orchestration and VNF management. New MANO projects are constantly being added.
Deployment Architecture
=======================
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Functest
--------
-
Functest provides a functional testing framework incorporating a number of test suites
and test cases that test and verify OPNFV platform functionality.
The scope of Functest and relevant test cases can be found in the :ref:`Functest User Guide <functest-userguide>`
---------
Yardstick
---------
-
Yardstick is a testing project for verifying the infrastructure compliance when running VNF applications.
Yardstick benchmarks a number of characteristics and performance vectors on the infrastructure making it
a valuable pre-deployment NFVI testing tools.
The Dovetail project will provide a test framework and methodology able to be used on any NFV platform,
including an agreed set of test cases establishing an evaluation criteria for exercising
an OPNFV compatible system. The Dovetail project has begun establishing the test framework
-and will provide a preliminary methodology for the Danube release. Work will continue to
+and will provide a preliminary methodology for the Fraser release. Work will continue to
develop these test cases to establish a stand alone compliance evaluation solution
in future releases.
-----------
Bottlenecks
-----------
-
Bottlenecks provides a framework to find system limitations and bottlenecks, providing
root cause isolation capabilities to facilitate system evaluation.
+--------
NFVBench
--------
-
NFVbench is a lightweight end-to-end dataplane benchmarking framework project.
It includes traffic generator(s) and measures a number of packet performance related metrics.
+----
QTIP
----
QTIP boils down NFVI compute and storage performance into one single metric for easy comparison.
QTIP crunches these numbers based on five different categories of compute metrics and relies on
Storperf for storage metrics.
+--------
Storperf
--------
Storperf measures the performance of external block storage. The goal of this project is
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VSPERF
------
-
VSPERF provides an automated test-framework and comprehensive test suite for measuring data-plane
performance of the NFVI including switching technology, physical and virtual network interfaces.
The provided test cases with network topologies can be customized while also allowing individual
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