Overview

The project “NFV Hypervisors-KVM” makes collaborative efforts to enable NFV features for existing hypervisors, which are not necessarily designed or targeted to meet the requirements for the NFVI.The KVM4NFV CICD scenario consists of Continuous Integration builds, deployments and testing combinations of virtual infrastructure components.

KVM4NFV Features

Using this project, the following areas are targeted-

• Minimal Interrupt latency variation for data plane VNFs:

  • Minimal Timing Variation for Timing correctness of real-time VNFs
  • Minimal packet latency variation for data-plane VNFs

• Inter-VM communication

• Fast live migration

Some of the above items would require software development and/or specific hardware features, and some need just configurations information for the system (hardware, BIOS, OS, etc.).

We include a requirements gathering stage as a formal part of the project. For each subproject, we will start with an organized requirement stage so that we can determine specific use cases (e.g. what kind of VMs should be live migrated) and requirements (e.g. interrupt latency, jitters, Mpps, migration-time, down-time, etc.) to set out the performance goals.

Potential future projects would include:

• Dynamic scaling (via scale-out) using VM instantiation
• Fast live migration for SR-IOV

The user guide outlines how to work with key components and features in the platform, each feature description section will indicate the scenarios that provide the components and configurations required to use it.

The configuration guide details which scenarios are best for you and how to install and configure them.

General usage guidelines

The user guide for KVM4NFV CICD features and capabilities provide step by step instructions for using features that have been configured according to the installation and configuration instructions.