Support for Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) - A Multi-Cloud Project

Project Description:

The purpose of this project is to enable dynamic composition, deployment and optimization of NFV infrastructures and resources, using DMTF Redfish APIs for CDI management, as part of the Multi-Cloud layer in ONAP, and to enable use of CDI-composed resources for VNF instantiation.

Background

Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) enables dynamic composition of computer systems (a.k.a compute resources)  from pools of disaggregated compute, storage and network components. The composition process is model driven, based on declarative templates that define what the composed system should look like in terms of its components and hardware capabilities. The disaggregated resource pools are contained within a set of racks, managed by the "infrastructure manager" software. The "infrastructure manager" software exposes set of northbound interfaces for consumption and administration of CDI. These interfaces are based on industry standard DTMF Redfish APIs. The following diagram illustrates basic components of CDI.

Use Cases

The  use cases to be enabled by this project are as follows:

Benefits

The benefits of using composable disaggregated NFV infrastructure (NFV-I) are as follows:

• On-demand optimization of VNF resources, in line with VNFD specified resource requirements.
• Reduction of orchestration (instantiation/operation/remediation) failures due to lack of required infrastructures and/or resources.
• On-demand dynamic capacity optimization across multiple virtual infrastructure environments
• Unobstructed access to infrastructure telemetry
• Industry standard interfaces models and interfaces
• TCO (CAPEX and OPEX) reduction as consequence of dynamic resource sharing/optimization, and infrastructure management automation.

Scope:

The following functionality will provided:

Architecture Alignment:

The following diagram illustrates how project functionality fits in with the rest of ONAP components. The "CDI Infrastructure Management Adapter" component, shown in the diagram, contains the bulk of the implementation and consists of "glue code" required to interaction between ONAP components' native interfaces, DMTF Redfish APIs and TOSCA templates.

CDI Infrastructure Manager...

CDI Flows...

Project Dependencies

The project depends on the following ONAP components:

This project aligns with the following standards and information models:

• • DMTF Redfish Information Model
  • DMTF Redfish REST APIs
  • OASIS TOSCA Simple YAML Profile
    
    

The project has no dependencies on other open source projects.

Other Information:

• Link to seed code  - None
• Vendor Neutral - Yes
• Meets Board policy (including IPR) - Yes

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