WAN, NFV and Clud Services Orchestratin Planet Orchestrate A primary challenge facing netwrk peratrs tday remains hw t quickly intrduce and peratinalize new clud and NFV-based services in their netwrks while keeping csts under cntrl. Planet Orchestrate is Cyan s innvative multi-dmain and multitechnlgy applicatin fr the Blue Planet platfrm that allws netwrk peratrs t leverage the service agility, autmatin and flexibility ffered by SDN, NFV, and the clud. Architected t be entirely mdular, data and template-driven, Planet Orchestrate prvides the intelligent allcatin, creatin and management f virtual and physical service resurces including netwrk elements, strage, cmpute, and applicatins acrss the telc clud and WAN frm a singlepane-f-glass. Purpse-built fr netwrk peratrs, Planet Orchestrate accelerates service prviders transitin t SDN and NFV, allwing them t be mre nimble in respnding t custmer and market demands. Highlights Manages, autmates and rchestrates services cmprised f physical and virtual resurces acrss the telc clud and WAN Flexible architecture integrates NFV, Clud, and Multi- Dmain Service Orchestratin capabilities Open system interperates with different OSSs, clud platfrms, SDN cntrllers, NMS/EMSs, netwrk elements and VNFs Cmplies with ETSI s NFV ISG Management and Orchestratin (MANO) framewrk Pwerful, intuitive user interface prvides a singlepane-f-glass fr rchestrating all service resurces Simplifies and accelerates adptin f SDN and NFV
Planet Orchestrate: Prgrammable Netwrk and Service Orchestratin Planet Orchestrate creates a highly prgrammable and interperable system that is agnstic t the type f resurces r services being rchestrated. Thrugh its use f service and resurce infrmatin templates and pen APIs, Planet Orchestrate supprts interperability and interactin with the industry s widest range f peratinal supprt systems (OSSs) and ther higher-layer applicatins, clud management platfrms, physical netwrk elements and clud- r NFV-based virtual resurces. Planet Orchestrate can be custmized t suit the needs f diverse netwrk peratr envirnments and applicatins. The system's flexible architecture integrates capabilities that can be used individually, r in cmbinatin, t supprt different use cases: Multi-Dmain Service Orchestratin, NFV Orchestratin, and Clud Orchestratin. Multi-Dmain Service Orchestratin The service prvider infrastructure is cmprised f multiple technlgies layers, as well as specialized dmains such clud, metr, and cre netwrks. Services typically span multiple technlgy layers and dmains. Further, rchestratin can ccur within a layer and a dmain, but als acrss multiple layers and dmains. Planet Orchestrate supprts Multi-Dmain Service Orchestratin (MDSO) capabilities t efficiently prvisin and manage service chains cmprised f physical netwrk elements and SDN/NFV-enabled virtual cmpnents acrss multiple dmains. Using APIs, Planet Orchestrate can be integrated with SDN cntrllers such Cyan s Planet Operate, as well as 3rd party cntrllers, element/netwrk management systems, and clud management platfrms. This breaks dwn management sils, allwing netwrk peratrs t rchestrate services frm end-t-end. Figure 1: Planet Orchestrate manages, autmates and rchestrates services acrss the telc clud and the multi-layer, multi-vendr WAN 2014, Cyan, Inc. Page 2
Multi-dmain service rchestratin prvides netwrk peratrs the flexibility t deliver cmpelling services such as NFV-enabled Ethernet. This ffering incrprates an SDN-pwered, autprvisined Carrier Ethernet Netwrk-as-a-Service (NaaS), with ptinal sftware-based features such as vfirewall and vencryptin that can be instantiated by the end-custmer when and where needed thrugh a prtal, r an API. By supprting the ability t integrate different NFV, clud, and SDN capabilities as required, multidmain service rchestratin allws peratrs t adpt new technlgies at their wn pace. NFV Orchestratin Planet Orchestrate supprts versatile multi-vendr NFV Orchestratin (NFVO) capabilities that are fully cmpliant with the ETSI NFV ISG Management and Orchestratin (MANO) framewrk. As illustrated in Figure 2, Planet Orchestrate can perfrm VNF management and rchestratin functinality, r in the case where a VNF manager is prvided by the VNF vendr, perfrm nly the rchestratin functins. The pen architecture f Planet Orchestrate NFVO enables rich, multivendr envirnments within the NFV Infrastructure (NFVI), including supprt fr different clud management sftware and physical servers. This further enables peratrs t break the lng-standing cycles f vendr lck-in. Planet Orchestrate NFVO is als highly flexible, enabling peratrs t deply and manage a variety f VNFs at varying degrees f scale and perfrmance. The NFV rchestratin engine prvides intelligent placement f VNFs and supprts distributed NFVI t ptimize use f NFV resurces. VNFs als can span ne r mre data centers, r be distributed t servers r devices lcated n the custmer premises. As a carrier-grade system, Planet Orchestrate supprts the perfrmance, availability and security demands f service prvider applicatins. Full perfrmance mnitring and alarm/event reprting is prvided fr the NFVI and virtual functins, including tracking f relatinships and interdependencies between the NFVI resurces and VNFs. An intrinsic knwledge f the tplgy and the mapping between applicatin and virtual resurces enables rapid fault-islatin and recvery as well as high-availability and resiliency. Figure 2: Planet Orchestrate prvides flexible, multi-vendr and MANOcmpliant NFV Orchstratin 2014, Cyan, Inc. Page 3
Figure 3: Planet Orchestrate enables faster intrductin f new services cmprised f bth virtualized SDN/NFV-based cmpnents and traditinal wide area netwrk elements Clud Orchestratin Planet Orchestrate prvides Clud Orchestratin capabilities that allw netwrk peratrs t deliver flexible data center-based service fferings, such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platfrm as a Service (PaaS). Using Clud Orchestratin, netwrk and data center peratrs can ffer their custmers the ability t instantiate new clud resurces, such as virtual machines, new tenant netwrks, r additinal strage, dynamically, and n demand. The requests can be made by end-users thrugh web prtal, r by specific applicatins using an API. Cmbining Clud Orchestratin with Multi-Dmain Service Orchestratin prvides dynamic cntrl ver netwrk resurces such as bandwidth and QS, enabling peratrs t ffer enterprises the cntrl they demand ver applicatin perfrmance and resurce allcatin fr a superir custmer experience. Clud Orchestratin capabilities will be supprted in a future Planet Orchestrate release. 2014, Cyan, Inc. Page 4
Technical Specificatins System Resurces and services mdeled using HOCON+ (JSON extended) Mdel imprt/exprt flexibility: TOSCA YANG YAML Template-driven service prvisining RESTful API s Supprted Clud Management Systems: OpenStack (initial release) VMware Vsphere (future) Multi-dmain Service Orchestratin Features Service-chaining acrss physical and virtual netwrk elements Hierarchical deplyment Supprt fr existing NMS, EMS, cntrllers Custmer-facing prtal NFV Orchestratin Features Centralized and Distributed NFV (D-NFV) Deply/delete a new VNF instance Advanced VNF placement User-selectable Plicy-based (semi-autmated) Aut-placement NFV Orchestratin (Cntinued) Clustered and nn-clustered VNFs Cmpsite and atmic VNFs supprted (initial release) Frtinet Virtual Firewall (vfw) Certes Virtual Encyptin (vencrypt) vcpe (vfw + vencrypt service chaining) PwerDNS Virtual DNS (vdns) Orchestratin spanning multiple VIMs (Virtualized Infrastructure Managers). Scaling f VNFs based n pre-defined KPI/criteria Supprt fr multiple VNF packaging ptins Supprt fr flexible VNF descriptr frmats KPI perfrmance mnitring (applicatin/vnf and infrastructure/cms) NFVI/VNF-fault frwarding and crrelatin System Requirements The Blue Planet platfrm is generally hsted n a dedicated hardware appliance, but it can be run with virtual machines (VMs).* Sizing f the dedicated hardware appliance depends n the Blue Planet sftware bundle and the number f netwrk ndes and/r virtual netwrk functins t be managed.* * Cntact Cyan fr additinal infrmatin abut VM deplyments. www.cyaninc.cm Cyan, Inc. Planet Orchestrate Data Sheet 1383 Nrth McDwell Blvd., Suite 300 Versin 2G Petaluma, CA, USA, 94954 +1 707 735 2300 2014, Cyan, Inc. Page 5