This Platform Upgrade Guide provides information for upgrading VMware vCloud NFV™ OpenStack Edition to VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure™ – OpenStack Edition based on the vCloud NFV OpenStack Edition Reference Architecture. Telco Cloud Infrastructure maintains the design and framework of vCloud NFV to be a fully integrated, modular, multi-tenant telco cloud infrastructure solution.
This guide provides only high-level steps that are essential to upgrade the vCloud NFV OpenStack Edition platform. Procedures in this guide are validated in VMware labs. This guide is best referred together with the product documentation of each Telco Cloud Infrastructure OpenStack Edition component.
Intended Audience
This guide is intended for users who upgrade vCloud NFV OpenStack Edition to Telco Cloud Infrastructure OpenStack Edition. To upgrade vCloud NFV to Telco Cloud Infrastructure, you must have knowledge about the deployment and configuration of the Telco Cloud Infrastructure OpenStack Edition components.
Acronyms and Definitions
This guide uses a specific set of acronyms that apply to the NFV technology and the Telco industry.
| Acronym |
Definition |
|---|---|
| DPDK |
Data Plane Development Kit, an Intel-led packet processing acceleration technology. |
| NFVI |
Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure |
| N-VDS (E) |
Enhanced mode when using the N-VDS segment of VMware NSX-T™ Data Center. This mode enables Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) for workload acceleration. |
| N-VDS (S) |
Standard mode when using the N-VDS segment of VMware NSX-T™ Data Center |
| VIM |
Virtualized Infrastructure Manager |
| VNF |
Virtual Network Function |
| OSE |
OpenStack Edition |
| VIO |
VMware Integrated OpenStack |
| ESXi |
VMware vSphere Hypervisor |
