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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 Pauluser-20f1f Heather Kirksey
Members - Olivier Augizeau Ryan Hallahan Vincent Colas Beth Cohen Cecilia Corbi Chuyi Guo @Dan Scrimpsher David Perez Caparros Herbert Damker @Javier Ger Lingli Deng Rabi Abdel @zhangruirui Randy Levensalor Brian Freeman
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
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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
- VNF Compliance
- NFVI alignment (align with industry preferences)
- VNF validation
- NFVI validation
- 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
- VNF validation is the long term goal
- 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
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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.