Lab Specification and Setup

Reference Model Section

Reference

Description

Requirement for Basic Profile

Requirement for Network Intensive Profile

BM RA Notes

OPNFV Intel Lab

4.2.5

e.cap.001

Max number of vCPU that can be assigned to a single Pod by the Cloud Infrastructure

At least 16 (1)

At least 16 (1)

[OK] POD 19: 22c/44t

[OK] POD 21: 20c/44t

4.2.5

e.cap.002

Max memory in MB that can be assigned to a single Pod by the Cloud Infrastructure

at least 32 GB(1)

at least 32 GB(1)

[OK] POD 19: 64G

[OK] POD 21: 192G

4.2.5

e.cap.003

Max storage in GB that can be assigned to a single Pod by the Cloud Infrastructure

at least 320 GB(1)

at least 320 GB(1)

[OK] POD 19: 3TB (HDD)

[OK] POD 21: 800G (SSD)

4.2.5

e.cap.004

Max number of connection points that can be assigned to a single Pod by the Cloud Infrastructure

6

6

Possible through Multus + CNI (vEth, SR-IOV)

4.2.5

e.cap.005

Max storage in GB that can be attached / mounted to Pod by the Cloud Infrastructure

Up to 16TB(2)

Up to 16TB(2)

4.2.5

e.cap.006

CPU pinning support

Not required

Must support

Possible through CMK (or Privileged flag)

4.2.5

e.cap.007

NUMA support

Not required

Must support

(Maybe) Possible through CMK (or other BM RA tool)

4.2.5

e.cap.008

IPSec Acceleration using the virtio-ipsec interface

Not required

Optional

(??) Might be covered by QAT device plugin

QAT support depends on chipset

4.2.5

e.cap.009

Crypto Acceleration using the virtio-crypto interface

Not required

Optional

(??) Might be covered by QAT device plugin

QAT support depends on chipset

4.2.5

e.cap.010

Transcoding Acceleration

Not required

Not required

(??)

4.2.5

e.cap.011

Programmable Acceleration

Not required

Not required

(??)

4.2.5

e.cap.012

Enhanced Cache Management: L=Lean; E=Equal; X=eXpanded

E

E

(??)

4.2.5

e.cap.013

SR-IOV over PCI-PT

Must support

Not required

Not sure if this is specifically supported

4.2.5

e.cap.014

Hardware coprocessor support (GPU/NPU)

Not required

Not required

GPU Device Plugin

Depends on Lab HW

4.2.5

e.cap.015

SmartNICs

Optional

Not required

(Maybe) Not sure if supported.

Depends on Lab HW

4.2.5

e.cap.016

FPGA/other Acceleration H/W

Optional

Not required

FPGA Device Plugin

Depends on Lab HW

4.2.5

e.cap.017

Ability to monitor L2-L7 data from workload

n/a(3)

n/a(3)

4.2.5

i.cap.014

Indicates the number of CPU cores consumed by the Cloud Infrastructure on the worker nodes

2

2

IIRC this is possible with BM RA. Expecting it to be "core 0" on each socket

4.2.5

i.cap.015

Indicates the memory consumed by Cloud Infrastructure on the worker nodes

16 GB

16GB

TBD

4.2.5

i.cap.016

Number of virtual cores per physical core; also known as CPU overbooking ratio that is required

1:1

1:1

Should be default with K8s request/limit

4.2.5

i.cap.017

QoS enablement of the connection point (vNIC or interface)

Not required

Must support

TBD

4.2.5

i.cap.018

Support for huge pages

Not required

Must support

Part of K8s

4.2.5

i.pm.001

Monitor worker node CPU usage, per nanosecond

Must support

Must support

TBD

4.2.5

i.pm.002

Monitor pod CPU usage, per nanosecond

Must support

Must support

TBD

4.2.5

i.pm.003

Monitor worker node CPU utilisation (%)

Must support

Must support

TBD

4.2.5

i.pm.004

Monitor pod CPU utilisation

Must support

Must support

TBD

4.2.5

i.pm.005

Measure external storage IOPs

Must support

Must support

TBD

4.2.5

i.pm.006

Measure external storage throughput

Must support

Must support

TBD

4.2.5

i.pm.007

Measure external storage capacity

Must support

Must support

TBD

Reference Model Section

Reference

Description

Requirement for Basic Profile

Requirement for Network Intensive Profile

BM RA Notes

OPNFV Intel Lab

5.2.1

infra.com.cfg.001

CPU allocation ratio

1:1

1:1

See above

5.2.1

infra.com.cfg.002

NUMA awareness

Must support

Must support

See above

5.2.1

infra.com.cfg.003

CPU pinning capability

Must support

Must support

See above

5.2.1

infra.com.cfg.004

Huge Pages

Must support

Must support

See above

5.2.2

infra.stg.cfg.002

Storage Block

Must support

Must support

TBD

5.2.2

infra.stg.cfg.003

Storage with replication

Not required

Must support

TBD

5.2.2

infra.stg.cfg.004

Storage with encryption

Must support

Must support

TBD

5.2.2

infra.stg.acc.cfg.001

Storage IOPS oriented

Not required

Must support

TBD

5.2.2

infra.stg.acc.cfg.002

Storage capacity oriented

Not required

Not required

TBD

5.2.3

infra.net.cfg.001

IO virtualisation using virtio1.1

Must support(1)

Must support(1)

Considering (1), this should be fine with SR-IOV Device Plugin and CNI

5.2.3

infra.net.cfg.002

The overlay network encapsulation protocol needs to enable ECMP in the underlay to take advantage of the scale-out features of the network fabric.(2)

Must support VXLAN, MPLSoUDP, GENEVE, other

No requirement specified

TBD

TBD

5.2.3

infra.net.cfg.003

Network Address Translation

Must support

Must support

(??) Is this possible in K8s by default

5.2.3

infra.net.cfg.004

Security Groups

Must support

Must support

TBD

5.2.3

infra.net.cfg.005

SFC support

Not required

Must support

TBD

5.2.3