• Proposed name for the project: OSCAR (OPNFV System Configuration And Reporting)
• Proposed name for the repository: repo-oscar
• Project Categories: Integration & Testing, Collaborative Development

Project “OSCAR” provides a solution to automatically install and configure the required components for OPNFV platform deployments, using existing installer and configuration tools and perform a set of basic system level tests. OSCAR is unique in the scope of OPNFV Release 1 projects as it focuses on the tools and process enabling service providers to install OPFNV based NFVI platforms, and validate the installations.

OSCAR will support the installation/configuration/test of OPNFV reference implementations based upon a variety of components, depending upon the project support of OPNFV members provided for component combinations in the project. These variations could for example leverage different SDN controllers or approaches to compute infrastructure (e.g. hypervisor vs container). In Release 1, at least one particular combination is proposed and supported by the project contributors so far, as shown in the table below. However this project will explicitly support other component combinations in Release 1 and beyond, given contributor support.

The OSCAR project will deliver the ability to install, configure, and test OPNFV reference implementations such as that proposed in the “Technology Proposed - Release 1” column in the table below. This proposal targets an installation on a virtual environment based on Ubuntu/Trusty as the base operating system and distribution. It includes a set of components that have already been tested and the overall functionality of the aggregate software components has been validated. As such, this is one possible OPNFV reference implementation which can serve as a framework to fast track the continuous integration of various components for the first release (targeted for March 2015).

OSCAR’s installation test capability will be used to validate basic installation and operation of a few example VNFs (listed below). Through these VNFs, OSCAR will enable validation of the integrity and functionality of OPNFV reference implementation installations.

OSCAR is intended to be closely aligned with the OPNFV TSC vision for the first release. By focusing on the installation, configuration, and validation of OPNFV reference implementations, OSCAR will help fast track the integration of various combinations of core open source network components, help OPNFV learn from their differences and commonality of deployment experience, and feed that back into producing a more flexible implementation framework.

For the reference implementation proposed in the “Technology Proposed - Release 1” column in the table below, the scope of the NFVI platform functions supported by the OSCAR project are illustrated in the attached figure (see slide 5) oscar_overview_v6.pptx . As the table indicates all the features and functionality are part of the first release of the OPNFV. Nearly all these features have been tested and integrated within OpenContrail, an open source platform under the Apache 2.0 license. Various POCs and pre-production version of the OpenContrail have been demonstrated in numerous lab and production systems.

Other reference implementation alternatives will also be supported under OSCAR, as demonstrating the ability to install/configure/test various OPNFV reference platforms is a key goal of OSCAR.

Related Projects

• Octopus provides an environment in which OPNFV reference implementations (platform builds based upon various combinations of components from upstream projects) can be maintained in sync with the upstream projects, and built from those source components into a cohesive OPNFV reference implementation that can be used in other projects, e.g. OSCAR and the test/integration projects.
• Get-started assembles and tests a base set of infrastructure components for OPNFV to run a few example VNFs by integrating binaries of the stable versions of the used components, as a quick “get off the ground” activity.
• OSCAR is also dependent upon the release cadencing of the Simultaneous Release project.

OSCAR provides automated testing tools for installation of various components as well as health check for individual components. This includes (but not limited to):

• OpenStack health check,
• OpenContrail health check,
• Life cycle management and automated system-level testing: CRUD operations for multiple instances of VNFs, and
• Life cycle management of associated network services.

Applicability for vCPE and mobility/wireline subscriber networks

• Stateful firewall
• Virtual PE
• Media cache/TCP proxy
• Application load balancer
• vEPC (SGW/PGW)
• vMME
• Session Border Controller (vSBC)
• Video optimization
• 3rd Party VNFs

Information regarding testing and integration including interoperability, scalability, high availability are provided in the above table. Any additional information for quality assurance and test resources will be available if necessary. The test cases include:

• Create templates that allow supported stacks to be built at different scales (POC/test/production)
• Test deployment at various scales
• Test preloading of VNFs

All API-related documents will be available in a timely manner. Detailed description of the Functional Architecture (building blocks, reference points, interfaces and protocols, work flow diagrams, etc.) will be provided during the development, integration and testing processes.

The OSCAR project relies on the following open source projects:

• OpenStack Juno release: various components including Nova, Neutron, Ceilometer, Heat, etc.,
• OpenContrail: vRouter and other components,
• Installer: Cobbler,
• Configuration & Management: Puppet,
• QEMU/KVM,
• Linux/Ubuntu distribution.

• Parviz Yegani (pyegani@juniper.net), JUNIPER NETWORKS
• Stuart Mackie (wsmackie@juniper.net), JUNIPER NETWORKS
• Peter Lee (plee@clearpathnet.com), CLEARPATH NETWORKS
• Konstantin Babenko (kbabenko@ngnware.com), ngnWare

• Parantap Lahiri (plahiri@juniper.net), JUNIPER NETWORKS
• Parviz Yegani (pyegani@juniper.net), JUNIPER NETWORKS
• Raghavendra Mallya (rmallya@juniper.net), JUNIPER NETWORKS
• Kalyanjeet Gogoi (kjgogoi@juniper.net), JUNIPER NETWORKS
• Stuart Mackie (wsmackie@juniper.net), JUNIPER NETWORKS
• Margaret Chiosi (mc3124@att.com), AT&T
• BIN HU (bh526r@att.com), AT&T
• Qiao Fu (fuqiao@chinamobile.com), China Mobile
• Peter Lee (plee@clearpathnet.com), CLEARPATH NETWORKS
• Mark Medina (mmedina@clearpathnet.com), CLEARPATH NETWORKS
• Ravi Chunduru (rchunduru@clearpathnet.com), CLEARPATH NETWORKS
• Sivaprasath Busa (sbusa@clearpathnet.com), CLEARPATH NETWORKS
• Konstantin Babenko (kbabenko@ngnware.com), ngnWare
• Nabeel Asim (nasim@ngnware.com), ngnWare

• OSCAR configuration server,
• Scripts and templates for installing each stack component on bare metal (all-in-one, scalable/distributed)
• Inventory and system configuration reports
• Documentation describing how to configure OSCAR to support new solution components and VNFs.

• The first release is targeted for March 2015.
• The project aligns with the current release cadence.