NFV Orchestration – Managing

VNFs in Data Center and Branch

John Malzahn – Host, Senior Manager, Cloud and Virtualization Solutions Marketing, Cisco Systems
Song Toh – Senior Manager, Product Management, Cisco Systems
Kjetil Rossavik – Product Manager, Cisco Systems

November 9, 2017
Today’s Presenters

John Malzahn Song Toh Kjetil Rossavik

Senior Manager, Cloud Senior Manager, Product Product Manager,
and Virtualization Management, Cisco Cisco Systems
Solutions Marketing, Systems
Cisco Systems

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Agenda

Market Trends in Automation

1 and NFV

Automating NFV with Cisco

2 NSO and ESC

3 Sharing our NFV Experience

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Market Trends in
Automation and NFV

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Key Market Trend Observations
Changing customer
Execution at the speed Rapidly changing
behavior and new
of software business models
expectations

• Agility, DevOps, NFV, SDN, • Everything on demand • Cloud services, virtualization,

new services platforms • New services with a press programmable networks
of a button • New ecosystems and
value chains
• OTT Co-opetition

All of this requires successful, flexible automation.

But complexity has destroyed many automation initiatives.
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The Four Pillars of Orchestration
https://communities.cisco.com/docs/DOC-74338

1 2

Orchestration Across State

Multiple Domains Convergence

3 4

Data Models and Data

Orchestrated Assurance
Model Mapping

Foundation for Full Lifecycle Service Automation

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NSO System Overview
• Model-driven end-to-
Operations OSS/BSS Developers end service lifecycle
and customer
experience in focus
NSO
• Seamless integration
Service Manager with existing and future
Package
CDB OSS/BSS environment
Device Manager Manager
• Loosely-coupled and
Device Abstraction ESC (VNFM) modular architecture
leveraging open APIs
VNF Lifecycle VNF Service and standard protocols
NED NED NED Manager Monitoring
• Orchestration across
multi-domain and multi-
layer for centralized
Multi-domain Networks policy and services
across entire network

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 The Journey to Production-Ready NFV
• Look, so many VNFs! • Every VNF has its own
• I can deploy them on management stack?
demand! • Every VNF has a different
• I can manage most provisioning process?
VNFs like I did my • More moving parts and more
These are now true.
PNFs, easier transition? complexity!
• How do I operationalize multi-
• Standard-based NFV
vendor NFV-based services?
orchestration that automate
multi-vendor VNF
Expectation

deployment and LCM

• Platform that can stitch
together multiple VNFs to
present a service
• Onboard a VNF without
writing code
NFV • Single platform to
orchestrate VNF deployment
across data center, branch
Disillusionment Enlightenment & Productivity
and cloud
• NFV is cool new tech!
• VNFs are cheaper!
• No more vendor lock-in!
Time
• Massive OPEX
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 What slowed down NFV?
Standards Technology Skills
• Immaturity standards • Need multi-vendor • Understanding
such as ETSI NFV support complexity of
MANO virtualized
• Ability to manage
environments
• Lacking standards- both virtual and
compliant products physical functions • Need software skills
in engineering and
• Inter-operability of • Complex resource
ops
products management
• Insufficient monitoring
and recovery
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Automating NFV with Cisco
Network Services
Orchestrator

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Cisco NFVO Solution Mapped to ETSI NFV Framework
Services API ETSI NFV Framework

Portal / BSS NFV

NFV
Os-Ma Management
Management &&
Service Applications Orchestration
Orchestration
Se-Ma
Service,
Service, VNF
VNF &
&
NSO “Day1, N” Infrastructure
Infrastructure Description
Description
NSO
NFV-O
NFV-O “Day0”
Service Orchestration and Fulfillment (NFV-O)
(NFV
(NFV Orch.)
Orch.)
EMS
EMS 1
1 EMS
EMS 2
2 EMS
EMS 3
3 Ve-Vnfm

Nfvo-Vnfm
VNF
vCSR
VNF 1
1 VNF
vASA2
VNF 2 VNF
F5 3
VNF 3
VM Alive
Vn-Nf
VNF-M
VNF-M

On-Vi
ESC
(VNF
(VNF
NFVI (VNF-M)
Manager)F
Managers)
Managers)
KVM
KVM // ESXi
ESXi Virtual
Virtual Storage
Storage Virtual
Virtual Network
Network
Vnfm-Vi
Nf-Vi
Virtualization Layer
Physical
Network OpenStack/
Hardware Resources Virtual
Virtual Infra
Infra
vCenter/NFVIS
Manager
Manager
/AWS (VIM)
Compute
Compute Storage
Storage Network
Network

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 NFVO / vBranch
Function Pack

Productized Network Services

function packs for Orchestrator

NFVO and ENFV Function packs reduce development

cost and accelerate deployment of
NFV in Data Center, Branch, or
Public Cloud

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Example: Virtualizing the
Branch office

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Cisco Enterprise
Network Function
Virtualization (ENFV)
Simplify operations
Roll out Services in Minutes
Less Space, Less Power
Less Maintenance
Increased Uptime
Manage Centrally
Automate
www.cisco.com/go/enfv

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ENFV Automated Operations - I
Branch CPE fully operational in minutes
Customer or 1. Pre-provision CPE
Operator Select branch template and
enter device serial#
Portal
NSO
3. PnP vBranch FP
request
2. Configure PnP
4+. Configure
CPE and VNFs
CPE

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Configuring the
No programming required
System prior to – configuration only
Operations

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Minimal System Configuration Required

VNF
VNF

VNF
Bootstrap
VNFD
configuration

NFVIS
Bootstrap Base
configuration configuration

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Minimal System Configuration Required

Common
VNFDs
Come with Examples

VNF
VNF

VNF
NSO Bootstrap included
VNFD
vBranch FP configuration
Others can
be added
NFVIS
Bootstrap Base
configuration configuration

Examples
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DEMO TIME!

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Recap: ENFV Automated Operations
Branch CPE fully operational in minutes
Customer or 1. Pre-provision CPE
Operator Select branch template and
enter device serial#
Portal
NSO
3. PnP vBranch FP
request
2. Configure PnP
4+. Configure
CPE and VNFs
CPE

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Sharing our NFV
Experience

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Conclusions: Current State of NFV
• NFV, after some false starts, is finally taking off
• Standards are maturing, interoperability is increasing
• Automation is key, and automation solutions are available, e.g.
Cisco Network Services Orchestrator
• Look out for proof-points for
• Standards compliance/interoperability/multi-vendor
• NFV in branch, data center and public cloud
• Virtual and physical automation
• Resource management
• Orchestrated assurance
• Recovery of both VNF and service configuration
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 NTT East Japan Adopts Cisco NFV Portfolio for
Small and Medium Enterprises of ICT Cloud
Computing

Cisco to Automate NTT DOCOMO’s Ne

BT and Cisco accelerate partnership f twork Device
or future networks  Provisioning

SoftBank Ericsson and Cisco to virtualize Vodaf

Accelerates Service Delivery to Custo one Hutchison Australia's core and IP
mers Using Virtualization and Automati network
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