[openstack-dev] Our idea for SFC using OpenFlow. RE: [NFV][Telco] Service VM v/s its basic framework

Vikram Choudhary vikram.choudhary at huawei.com
Tue Dec 23 10:06:56 UTC 2014


Hi Keshava,

Please find my answer inline…

From: A, Keshava [mailto:keshava.a at hp.com]
Sent: 22 December 2014 20:10
To: Vikram Choudhary; Murali B
Cc: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org; Yuriy.Babenko at telekom.de; stephen.kf.wong at gmail.com; Dhruv Dhody; Dongfeng (C); Kalyankumar Asangi; A, Keshava
Subject: RE: Our idea for SFC using OpenFlow. RE: [openstack-dev] [NFV][Telco] Service VM v/s its basic framework

Vikram,

1.       In this solution it is assumed that all the OpenStack services are available/enabled on all the CNs ?

Vikram: The SFC NB API should be independent of where the advanced services are deployed, the API should infact hide this information by design.

In the BP, we have proposed an idea of service pool which will be populated by the user with their respective advance service instance/s. Our solution will just try to find out the best service instance to be used and dictate the flow path which the data traffic needs to follow for accomplishing SFC.

Let’s say the service pool contains 2 LB and 2 FW services and the user want a SFC as LB->FW. In such scenario a flow rule mentioning the details about LB and FW instance with flow path details will be downloaded to the OVS.

Please note the details about the advanced services (like IP details i.e. where the service is running and etc) will be fetched from the neutron db.



2.       Consider a  scenario: For a particular Tennant traffic  the  flows are chained across a set of CNs .

Then if one of the  VM (of that Tennant) migrates to a new CN, where that Tennant was not there earlier on that CN, what will be the impact ?

How to control the chaining of flows in these kind of scenario ? so that packet will reach that Tennant VM on new CN ?

Vikram: If the deployment of advanced services change, the neutron db would be updated and corresponding actions (selection of advance service instance and corresponding change in OVS dataflow would be done). This is hidden to the user.



Here this Tennant VM be a NFV Service-VM (which should be transparent to OpenStack).

keshava



From: Vikram Choudhary [mailto:vikram.choudhary at huawei.com]
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 12:28 PM
To: Murali B
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Subject: RE: Our idea for SFC using OpenFlow. RE: [openstack-dev] [NFV][Telco] Service VM v/s its basic framework

Sorry for the incontinence. We will sort the issue at the earliest.
Please find the BP attached with the mail!!!

From: Murali B [mailto:mbirru at gmail.com]
Sent: 22 December 2014 12:20
To: Vikram Choudhary
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Subject: Re: Our idea for SFC using OpenFlow. RE: [openstack-dev] [NFV][Telco] Service VM v/s its basic framework

Thank you Vikram,

Could you or somebody please provide the access the full specification document

Thanks
-Murali

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Vikram Choudhary <vikram.choudhary at huawei.com<mailto:vikram.choudhary at huawei.com>> wrote:
Hi Murali,

We have proposed service function chaining idea using open flow.
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/service-function-chaining-using-openflow

Will submit the same for review soon.

Thanks
Vikram

From: Yuriy.Babenko at telekom.de<mailto:Yuriy.Babenko at telekom.de> [mailto:Yuriy.Babenko at telekom.de<mailto:Yuriy.Babenko at telekom.de>]
Sent: 18 December 2014 19:35
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Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [NFV][Telco] Service VM v/s its basic framework

Hi,
in the IRC meeting yesterday we agreed to work on the use-case for service function chaining as it seems to be important for a lot of participants [1].
We will prepare the first draft and share it in the TelcoWG Wiki for discussion.

There is one blueprint in openstack on that in [2]


[1] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/telcowg/2014/telcowg.2014-12-17-14.01.txt
[2] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/group-based-policy/+spec/group-based-policy-service-chaining

Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Yuriy Babenko

Von: A, Keshava [mailto:keshava.a at hp.com]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2014 19:06
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Betreff: Re: [openstack-dev] [NFV][Telco] Service VM v/s its basic framework

Hi Murali,

There are many unknows w.r.t ‘Service-VM’ and how it should from NFV perspective.
In my opinion it was not decided how the Service-VM framework should be.
Depending on this we at OpenStack also will have impact for ‘Service Chaining’.
Please find the mail attached w.r.t that discussion with NFV for ‘Service-VM + Openstack OVS related discussion”.


Regards,
keshava

From: Stephen Wong [mailto:stephen.kf.wong at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 10:03 PM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [NFV][Telco] Service VM v/s its basic framework

Hi Murali,

    There is already a ServiceVM project (Tacker), currently under development on stackforge:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ServiceVM

    If you are interested in this topic, please take a look at the wiki page above and see if the project's goals align with yours. If so, you are certainly welcome to join the IRC meeting and start to contribute to the project's direction and design.

Thanks,
- Stephen


On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Murali B <mbirru at gmail.com<mailto:mbirru at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi keshava,

We would like contribute towards service chain and NFV

Could you please share the document if you have any related to service VM

The service chain can be achieved if we able to redirect the traffic to service VM using ovs-flows

in this case we no need to have routing enable on the service VM(traffic is redirected at L2).

All the tenant VM's in cloud could use this service VM services  by adding the ovs-rules in OVS


Thanks
-Murali




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