EUAG 2019-02-12 meeting minutes

Owned by Jim Baker
Last updated: Dec 03, 2019
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Agenda:

  • Service Orchestration and Implementation Plans Survey - Phil Robb

  • OVP progam overview - Heather Kirksey

  • Open Networking Summit 

    • North America - San Jose April 3-5

    • EU - Antwerp September 23-25 

      • Planning on face to face EUAG meeting at this ONS (9/24) - details TBD



EUAG Meeting recordings



Attendees

LFN - @Jim Baker @Kenny Paul@Former user (Deleted) @Heather Kirksey

Members - @Olivier Augizeau @Ryan Hallahan @Vincent Colas @Beth Cohen @Cecilia Corbi @guochuyi @Dan Scrimpsher @David Perez Caparros @Herbert Damker @Javier Ger @Lingli Deng @Rabi Abdel @zhangruirui @Randy Levensalor @FREEMAN, BRIAN D

Guests -  @Margaret Chiosi @zhangruirui

Meeting minutes

Survey

Survey out from surveymokey - focus on understanding where operators are in complying with ETSI in service orchestration standards. Please respond to the survey it you've not responded already. Reminder will be sent today (2/12)

OVP program - Heather Kirksey



Initial focus on VNF program - providing index of VNFs from OPNFV 

Now shifting focus - NFVI/VIM and VNF and includes commercial MANO

Testing - compliance testing for VNFs and NFVI based on standards.

Running instances of NFVI and MANO - VNFs can be trialed 

Compliance testing - VNFSDK - focus on TOSCA, VVP - focused on Heat

Validation - OPNFV Dovetail provides the testing framework

Functional testing is the focus on NFVI, compliance testing for the VNF

Yardstick provides the performance benchmarking framework and HA testing

A OVP portal is home for results - created by the Dovetail team

Vision: Build out the portal and populate with NFVI/VIMs

Margret - ask about the value of each of the testing tools

Challenges:

  • NFVI has many flavors - many components that can be used to build out the NFVI

  • Perhaps the EUAG can steer us toward a more constrained NFVI - driven off profiles

  • Validating 3GPP is aspirational, right now the focus is on a minimum of tests

  • Want folks to interact with the program and steer it towards highest value

Priorities

  1. VNF Compliance

  2. NFVI alignment (align with industry preferences)

  3. VNF validation

  4. NFVI validation

  5. MANO implementation as SUT



What are the mid-term priorities from EUAG?

  • perhaps a poll would be a good way to collect this information

  • do you agree with the long-term goal?

    • VNF validation is the long term goal

      • Compliance is the immediate term

  • Beth - have to start with compliance, then validation

  • Margret - Use the table in the poll as a ranked ordering (maybe top 3)

  • Lingli - What does alignment mean?

    • Operator agreement to constrain number of choices to make the test space manageable

  • Ryan - can we get a crisp definition of all the terms written down as a part of the deck

    • Alignment is not a perfect word - perhaps profiling is a better term

  • Lingli - How do we mix open source and commercial?

  • Randy - Lead with open source and make infrastructure available for commercial applications

Q and A


GSMA profile A and B? Rabi - these are defined in the profile
What is the difference between compliance and validation testing?

  • Compliance = assures the SUT complies with a specification or standard (VNF metadata complies with TOSCA requirements)

  • Validation = functional testing (does VNF deploy into a environment, does NFVI fail-over and LCM)



Is VNF LCM testing part of validation OR compliance?

  • LCM interfaces are insured to be present via compliance

  • LCM behaviors are insured by validation



If VFN validation includes LCM, shouldn't ONAP also be included?

  • Yes, we want to on-board VNF on live ONAP instances

  • Could do the same with OPNFV

  • LCM with the orchestration platform - it makes more sense to test the VNF within the context of the orchestration manager



What are the open source projects that are a part of this initiative?

  • Docs will be added soon - Dovetail and VNFSDK are currently leading



Action items

Heather to produce a written glossary of terms (validation/compliance/alignment)
Heather to send out survey on prioritization



ONS feedback

  • ONS NA week of April 1  - assume many will attend - perhaps both working and social session


Zoom chat log 

07:22:56 From Lingli-CMCC : What is the difference between VNF compliance testing and
07:23:05 From Lingli-CMCC : validation testing?
07:31:00 From Lingli-CMCC : This is the confusing point.
07:31:15 From Lingli-CMCC : VNF RQTS contains the spec
07:31:19 From Lingli-CMCC : for like
07:31:23 From Lingli-CMCC : lcm
07:31:39 From Lingli-CMCC : onboarding, creation, termination
07:31:56 From Lingli-CMCC : but not the VNF function itself
07:32:38 From Lingli-CMCC : agreed
07:33:08 From Brian Freeman AT&T : compliance checks artifacts - validataion actually instantiates and confirms it functions as a VNF
07:33:16 From Herbert Damker (DT) : What actually the abbreviation CVC stands for?
07:33:46 From Rabi A (Vodafone) : Compliance and Verification Comitee
07:34:01 From Lingli-CMCC : I understand VNF LCM to be part of compliance testing
07:35:42 From Lingli-CMCC : validation may be validate the VNF is an HSS as expected
07:36:55 From Lingli-CMCC : ONAP is required to do VNF LCM compliance testing
07:40:44 From Brian Freeman AT&T : Seems like Operators would want a repeatble and inspectable process for VNF testing that would make it clear a VNF works on a reasonable cloud with ONAP. Not clear NFVI testing is as important to all carriers.
07:52:49 From Lingli-CMCC : What do you mean by Alignment?
07:53:44 From Brian Freeman AT&T : I had the same question Lingli
08:01:20 From Lingli-CMCC : Will be ONS.