Compass4nfv Release Notes

Release Note for the Euphrates release of OPNFV when using Compass4nfv as a deployment tool.

1. Abstract

This document describes release notes of OPNFV when using Compass4nfv as a deployment tool covering it’s features, limitations and required system resources.

2. Introduction

Compass4nfv is an OPNFV installer project based on open source project Compass, which provides automated deployment and management of OpenStack and other distributed systems. Please carefully follow the Installation Instructions to deploy OPNFV using Compass4nfv installer.

3. Release Data

Project Compass4nfv
Repo/tag Compass4nfv/Euphrates.1.0
Release designation Euphrates.1.0
Release date October 2017
Purpose of the delivery OPNFV Euphrates release

3.1. Deliverables

3.1.1. Software deliverables

3.1.2. Documentation deliverables

  • OPNFV(Euphrates) Compass4nfv installation instructions
  • OPNFV(Euphrates) Compass4nfv Release Notes

3.2. Version change

3.2.1. Module version change

This is the Euphrates release of compass4nfv as a deployment toolchain in OPNFV, the following upstream components supported with this release.

  • Ubuntu 16.04/Centos 7.3
  • Openstack (Ocata release)
  • Kubernates (1.7.3)
  • Opendaylight (Nitrogen release)

3.3. Reason for new version

3.3.1. Feature additions

JIRA REFERENCE SLOGAN
COMPASS-549 Real Time KVM
  OpenDaylight Nitrogen Support
COMPASS-542 Support OpenStack Ocata
  Support ODL SFC
COMPASS-550 Support OVS-DPDK
COMPASS-495 Yardstick Integration into Compass4nfv

3.3.2. Bug corrections

JIRA TICKETS:

JIRA REFERENCE SLOGAN
  With no ceph, the cluster will heal itself after a power failure or reboot

4. Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds

4.1. System Limitations

Max number of blades: 1 Jumphost, 3 Controllers, 20 Compute blades

Min number of blades: 1 Jumphost, 1 Controller, 1 Compute blade

Storage: Ceph is the only supported storage configuration

Min Jumphost requirements: At least 16GB of RAM, 16 core CPU

4.2. Scenario Limitations

ODL SFC: In the Euphrates1.0, Compass doesn’t integrate OpenStack Tacker Project yet. However, the SFC related test cases in Functest always use Tacker as NFVO to delivery VNFFG or SFC related requests to ODL via networking-sfc. So the odl-sfc scenario of Compass cannot pass the SFC testcases in Functest. But if you want to use verify SFC in the cluster deployed by Compass, you can use neutron CLI to achieve the same effect.

4.3. Known issues

Scenario Issue Workarounds
Ceph Related Scenario After a power failure or reboot, the cluster cannot heal itself Deploy without Ceph

5. Test Result

The Euphrates release with the Compass4nfv deployment toolchain has undergone QA test runs with the following results:

Functest: http://testresults.opnfv.org/reporting/euphrates/functest/status-compass.html