Power Savings & NFV: How to reconcile these 2 constraints ?
The recent surge in energy prices increases the need for energy saving in all domains.
Yet, CNF/VNF are not yet known for their energy efficiency as the underlying technologies require the platform to be active 24/7, with cpu cores being used at 100% even when there is no traffic.
Scale-in and scale out is already in place, and shall be more adopted with the containerisation of the network functions.
Yet, what can we do from the platform perspective to reduce the global power consumption, while keeping "0 packet dropped" as a base requirement ?
In this presentation, we will discuss the different options to reduce the power consumption of an NFV platform, and the required modifications from UEFI configuration to VM tuning, as well as the application modifications.
Please come with your use cases & requirements so we can shape a better platform for your needs !
