Collaboration of OpenStack Blazar and OPNFV Promise for Meeting NFV Resource Management Requirements
While cloud allows users to provision resources on-demand and gives an illusion of unlimited capacity, in reality the underlying resources are limited and require resource sharing which could cause inefficient cloud operation. This is especially important for NFV clouds, where service degradation may occur if additional resources are not available adjacent to the resources for a network service that may experience expected or unexpected spike in traffic.
OPNFV Promise project was initiated to solve this problem by introducing resource reservation for future usage. Since OpenStack is considered to be the defacto VIM for NFV, OPNFV Promise team is collaborating with OpenStack Blazar project and Product Working Group to address this issue.
This session will aim to provide an overview of how Promise and Blazar address the following
- Accept future resource usage requests
- Provide guaranteed access to reserved resources
- Manage resource usage conflicts
