Only Use FD.io VPP to Achieve high performance service function chaining Yi Yang @ Intel

Agenda Problem statements and Opportunities Introducing Service Function Chaining (SFC) SFC Vector Packet Processing (VPP) Renderer and Classifier in Opendaylight* (ODL) SFC Architecture ODL SFC and VPP Integration Architecture ODL SFC and VPP Integration Demo Configuration VPP Network Service Header (NSH) Proxy Key Takeaways and Call to Actions

Problem statements and Opportunities It takes a long time to upstream NSH patches to Open vSwitch (OvS*) Needs a high performance data plane alternative to support service function chaining solution for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Opportunities VPP in FD.io* offers a Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) accelerated high performance data plane implementation VPP, NSH_SFC and Honeycomb 17.01 releases fully support NSH Honeycomb provides Opendaylight*-friendly NETCONF and RESTCONF interfaces for integration

Introducing SFC (Service Function Chaining) (FW) SF2 (DPI) Client1 Classifier1 Classifier2 SFF1 SFF2 Client2 Server Client3 Legend SFC Component SFF: Service Function Forwarder NSI: Network Service Index SF : Service Function NSP: Network Service Path RSP: Rendered Service Path, SFC Instance NSH: Network Service Header Service Function Chain

SFC VPP Renderer and Classifier in ODL SFC Architecture SFC UI RESTCONF SFC Provider SFC Data Store ODL OpenFlow Renderer SFC OvS* VPP Classifier VPP Renderer Openflowplugin OVSDB Netconf SBI Not used for VPP Used for VPP Switch (OvS*) Netconf Device (VPP node) Devices

ODL SFC and VPP Integration Architecture OpenDaylight* SFC VPP Renderer VPP Classifier Netconf/YANG VxLAN-GPE NSH Entry and NSH Map Honeycomb Data Broker Config Data Tree Operational Data Tree Translation Layer NSH-related processes Contributions led by Intel Legend HC Core HC NSH Plugin JVPP APIs JVPP APIs VxLan-GPE processes VPP JVPP Core JVPP NSH Plugin JVPP Registry VPP Connection Core Binary APIs NSH Binary APIs VPP Core NSH_SFC plugin

High level Logical View of Demo Configuration VPP1/ SFF1 SF1 VPP2/ SFF2 SF2 VPP Classifier1 Classifier2 Web Client Web Server

ODL SFC and VPP Integration Demo Configuration Control Plane VPP1/SFF1 SFCVPP VxLANgpe1 SF 1 Web Client VxLANgpe0 VPP2/SFF2 SF 2 Web Server 192.168.70.40 Eth2 GigabitEthernet0/9/0 192.168.70.60 VxLANgpe2 Eth1 192.168.60.20 Data Plane 192.168.70.50 192.168.70.10 SFCVPP (classifier) host-veth-br (classifier) veth-app 192.168.2.2 192.168.2.1 192.168.60.50 VM 2 VM 1 VM 5 VM 6 VM 3 VM 4 vboxnet2 192.168.60.1 192.168.60.60 192.168.70.20 192.168.70.30 192.168.60.10

ODL SFC and VPP Integration Demo Configuration VPP1/SFF1 SFCVPP VxLANgpe1 SF 1 Web Client VxLANgpe0 VPP2/SFF2 SF 2 Web Server 192.168.70.40 Eth2 VxLANgpe2 Data Plane 192.168.70.30 SFCVPP (classifier) host-veth-br (classifier) veth-app 192.168.2.2 192.168.2.1 VM 2 VM 1 VM 5 VM 6 VM 3 VM 4 GigabitEthernet0/9/0 192.168.70.10 192.168.70.20 192.168.70.50 192.168.70.60 Forward RSP: webclient  Classifier1  VPP1  SF1  VPP1  VPP2  SF2  VPP2  Classifier2  webserver Reverse RSP: webserver  Classifier2  VPP2  SF2  VPP2  VPP1  SF1  VPP1  Classifier1  webclient

High level Logical View of Demo Configuration VPP1/ SFF1 SF1 VPP2/ SFF2 SF2 NSH unaware VPP Classifier1 Classifier2 NSH Proxy Web Client Web Server

VPP NSH Proxy VPP1/SFF1 SFCVPP VxLANgpe1 SF 1 Web Client VxLANgpe0 (NSH unaware) Web Server GigabitEthernet0/9/0 192.168.70.60 192.168.70.20 VxLANgpe2 Data Plane 192.168.70.30 Eth2 192.168.70.50 192.168.70.10 (classifier) host-veth-br VPP NSH Proxy 192.168.70.40 192.168.70.70 veth-app 192.168.2.1 192.168.2.2 VM 1 VM 6 VM 5 VM 3 VM 4 VM 2 VM 7 NSH Proxy: Proxy for legacy NSH-unaware Service Function Forward RSP: webclient  Classifier1  VPP1  SF1  VPP1  VPP2  NSH Proxy  SF2  NSH Proxy VPP2  Classifier2  webserver Reverse RSP: webserver  Classifier2  VPP2  NSH Proxy  SF2  NSH Proxy  VPP2  VPP1  SF1  VPP1  Classifier1  webclient

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Key Takeaways and Call to Actions FD.io* (including VPP, NSH_SFC, Honeycomb) enabled full-featured data plane and control plane for NSH-based SFC Service Function Forwarder, Classifier and NSH Proxy Utilize DPDK to accelerate NSH-based SFC Opendaylight* SFC enabled NSH-based SFC solution by using OvS* or FD.io* Call to Actions Join the mailing lists and submit patches sfc-dev@lists.opendaylight.org vpp-dev@lists.fd.io Work with Intel to enable the SFC vertical solution and optimize data plane performance Send Intel suggestions for future webinar topics

References FD.io* wiki page: https://wiki.fd.io/view/Main_Page FD.io* VPP project: https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP FD.io* NSH_SFC project: https://wiki.fd.io/view/NSH_SFC FD.io* honeycomb project: https://wiki.fd.io/view/Honeycomb FD.io* hc2vpp project: https://wiki.fd.io/view/Hc2vpp Opendaylight SFC: https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Service_Function_Chaining:Main Opendaylight SFC 104 demo for vpp: https://git.opendaylight.org/gerrit/gitweb?p=sfc.git;a=blob;f=sfc- demo/sfc104/README.md;hb=HEAD FD.io* presentations: https://wiki.fd.io/view/Presentations ODL SFC and VPP Integration slides in FD.io* mini summit 2016: https://wiki.fd.io/view/File:ODL_SFC_and_VPP_Integration.pptx

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