NFV infrastructure must be distributed across multiple geographical locations. This will require multiple connected OpenStack deployments, of different sizes. The infrastructure will also mix physical and virtual infrastructure.

The platform must be able to support application-level redundancy across different datacenters, network management across multiple sites, and between physical and virtual infrastructure, multi-site image replication, and global and per-site quota management.

This project focus on the enhancement to OpenStack ( Nova / Cinder / Neutron / Glance / Ceilometer / KeyStone ), so that OpenStack as the VIM is able to support multisite NFV cloud.

The initial overall project plan for Multisite is:

• Iteration 1 ( now ~ Jun.19 ):
  • Mission: identify use case / requirement / gap. Prioritized and scoped use cases in one iteration.
  • ( at most 3 or 5 use case to be discussed in the first iteration ? we need a try in the first iteration )

• Iteration 2 ( Jun.22 ~ Jul.24):
  • Mission: identify new use case / requirement / gap, implementation discussion, output BP/spec in OpenStack. Prioritized and scoped use cases in one iteration.

• Iteration 3 ( Jul.27 ~ Aug.28):
  • Mission: identify new use case / requirement / gap, implementation discussion, output BP/spec in OpenStack. Prioritized and scoped use cases in one iteration.

• project retrospection will be dicussed on iteration 3 for further planning

• Reference: Kickoff meeting: https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/multisite_kickoff Minutes of Kickoff meeting

Related wiki pages:

• Multisite Project Proposal multisite_project_creation_review_r1.1.pptx
• Use Cases
• List of Candidate Work Items / Open Questions
• Meeting Calendar
• Meeting Minutes
• Multisite Documentation

Project: Multi-Site Virtualized Infrastructure (Multisite)
Creation Date: April 21, 2015
Category: Requirement
Lifecycle State: Incubation
Primary Contact: Chaoyi Huang ( joehuang@huawei.com )
Project Lead: Chaoyi Huang ( joehuang@huawei.com )
Jira Project Name: TBD
Jira Project Prefix: TBD
Mailing list tag: [multisite]
Repository: multisite

Committers:

  Chaoyi Huang, Huawei ( joehuang@huawei.com)
  Xiaolong Kong, Orange (xiaolong.kong@orange.com)
  Colin Tregenza Dancer (ctd@metaswitch.com)
  Zhipeng Huang, Huawei (zhipengh512@gmail.com)   
  Ulrich Kleber, Huawei (Ulrich.Kleber@huawei.com) 

Contributors:

  Dimitri Mazmanov, Ericsson (dimitri.mazmanov@ericsson.com)
  François Despres, Orange (francois.despres@orange.com)
  Jie Hu, ZTE(hu.jie@zte.com.cn)
  Mike Godley, Intel (michael.godley@intel.com)

IRC : freenode.net #opnfv-meeting
GoToMeeting :

• Weekly on Thursday at 0800 UTC in Summer (London 9:00 AM, CET 10:00 AM, Beijing 4:00 PM ).
• https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/959683557
• See meetings/multisite for agenda, details and previous meeting minutes

Trello : Multisite Trello Board for coordination
Mailing List : no dedicated mailing list - use opnfv-tech-discuss and tag your emails with [multisite] in the subject for easier filtering
Repository: multisite