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VNF Design
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Services are composed of VNFs and common components and are designed to
be agnostic of the location to leverage capacity where it exists in the
Network Cloud. VNFs can be instantiated in any location that meets the
performance and latency requirements of the service.
A key design principle for virtualizing services is decomposition of
network functions using NFV concepts into granular VNFs. This enables
instantiating and customizing only essential functions as needed for the
service, thereby making service delivery more nimble. It provides
flexibility of sizing and scaling and also provides flexibility with
packaging and deploying VNFs as needed for the service. It enables
grouping functions in a common cloud data center to minimize
inter-component latency. The VNFs should be designed with a goal of
being modular and reusable to enable using best-in-breed vendors.
Section 4.1 VNF Design in *VNF Guidelines* describes
the overall guidelines for designing VNFs from VNF Components (VNFCs).
Below are more detailed requirements for composing VNFs.
VNF Design Requirements
.. req::
:id: R-58421
:target: VNF
:keyword: SHOULD
The VNF **SHOULD** be decomposed into granular re-usable VNFCs.
.. req::
:id: R-82223
:target: VNF
:keyword: MUST
The VNF **MUST** be decomposed if the functions have
significantly different scaling characteristics (e.g., signaling
versus media functions, control versus data plane functions).
.. req::
:id: R-16496
:target: VNF
:keyword: MUST
The VNF **MUST** enable instantiating only the functionality that
is needed for the decomposed VNF (e.g., if transcoding is not needed it
should not be instantiated).
.. req::
:id: R-02360
:target: VNF
:keyword: MUST
The VNFC **MUST** be designed as a standalone, executable process.
.. req::
:id: R-34484
:target: VNF
:keyword: SHOULD
The VNF **SHOULD** create a single component VNF for VNFCs
that can be used by other VNFs.
.. req::
:id: R-23035
:target: VNF
:keyword: MUST
The VNF **MUST** be designed to scale horizontally (more
instances of a VNF or VNFC) and not vertically (moving the existing
instances to larger VMs or increasing the resources within a VM)
to achieve effective utilization of cloud resources.
.. req::
:id: R-30650
:target: VNF
:keyword: MUST
The VNF **MUST** utilize cloud provided infrastructure and
VNFs (e.g., virtualized Local Load Balancer) as part of the VNF so
that the cloud can manage and provide a consistent service resiliency
and methods across all VNF's.
.. req::
:id: R-12709
:target: VNF
:keyword: SHOULD
The VNFC **SHOULD** be independently deployed, configured,
upgraded, scaled, monitored, and administered by ONAP.
.. req::
:id: R-37692
:target: VNF
:keyword: MUST
The VNFC **MUST** provide API versioning to allow for
independent upgrades of VNFC.
.. req::
:id: R-86585
:target: VNF
:keyword: SHOULD
The VNFC **SHOULD** minimize the use of state within
a VNFC to facilitate the movement of traffic from one instance
to another.
.. req::
:id: R-65134
:target: VNF
:keyword: SHOULD
The VNF **SHOULD** maintain state in a geographically
redundant datastore that may, in fact, be its own VNFC.
.. req::
:id: R-75850
:target: VNF
:keyword: SHOULD
The VNF **SHOULD** decouple persistent data from the VNFC
and keep it in its own datastore that can be reached by all instances
of the VNFC requiring the data.
.. req::
:id: R-88199
:target: VNF
:keyword: MUST
The VNF **MUST** utilize a persistent datastore service that
can meet the data performance/latency requirements. (For example:
Datastore service could be a VNFC in VNF or a DBaaS in the Cloud
execution environment)
.. req::
:id: R-99656
:target: VNF
:keyword: MUST
The VNF **MUST** NOT terminate stable sessions if a VNFC
instance fails.
.. req::
:id: R-84473
:target: VNF
:keyword: MUST
The VNF **MUST** enable DPDK in the guest OS for VNF's requiring
high packets/sec performance. High packet throughput is defined as greater
than 500K packets/sec.
.. req::
:id: R-54430
:target: VNF
:keyword: MUST
The VNF **MUST** use the NCSP's supported library and compute
flavor that supports DPDK to optimize network efficiency if using DPDK. [#4.1.1]_
.. req::
:id: R-18864
:target: VNF
:keyword: MUST NOT
The VNF **MUST NOT** use technologies that bypass virtualization
layers (such as SR-IOV) unless approved by the NCSP (e.g., if necessary
to meet functional or performance requirements).
.. req::
:id: R-64768
:target: VNF
:keyword: MUST
The VNF **MUST** limit the size of application data packets
to no larger than 9000 bytes for SDN network-based tunneling when
guest data packets are transported between tunnel endpoints that
support guest logical networks.
.. req::
:id: R-74481
:target: VNF
:keyword: MUST NOT
The VNF **MUST NOT** require the use of a dynamic routing
protocol unless necessary to meet functional requirements.
.. [#4.1.1]
Refer to NCSP’s Network Cloud specification
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