OpenStack Summit - Wide-Open NFV Orchestration.
That picture above is of Salar de Uyuni. Brilliant place, if you ever get the chance to head down to the wilds of Bolivia. Perched at the edge of this beautiful, massive salt flat, are the hulking ruins of the steam-rail-era Bolivian National Railroad system. The same trains of Butch Cassidy fame.
Why this picture? To me it's analog to the change underway in technology. It's a wide-open future ahead of us, a place not meant for the hulking, legacy and proprietary approach of the past. The train graveyard at the edge of this wide-open space? The remains of the legacy, proprietary hardware systems that many of our data centers are still saddled with.
At last weeks Austin OpenStack Summit, SDN driven cloud and SDN/NFV tie-ups took on heightened importance. Among this, NFV MANO and the great open source collaboration of the Tacker core project were a genuine highlight.
Following on the Tacker fanfare at the summit, Brocade VNF Manager was announced. This is the Tacker based, VNF life cycle management tool built for the OpenDaylight SDN platform. It was exceedingly well received, as a significant innovation that is going to open up the enterprise to NFV adoption.
KEY FEATURES INCLUDE:
- VNF Life Cycle Management
- VNF Manager Framework with VNFD templates support
- Infra Driver for OpenStack using Heat templates
- Configuration and Monitoring Drivers for Brocade VNF’s
- Health Monitoring of VNFs
It's exciting to know that multi-vendor, open source MANO is has arrived. You can eval the tool here.