Conclusion

With every release of the VMware vCloud NFV platform, the aim is to improve the data plane performance and predictability.

With the inclusion of NSX-T Data Center 2.5 in vCloud NFV 3.2.1 and vCloud NFV OpenStack Edition 3.3, VMware has:

• Added support for accelerated end-to-end Overlay networking.

• Provided more mechanisms to efficiently assign compute resources to the virtual networking stack.

• Further improved the ease of use by leveraging the automatic NUMA alignment.

We collaborate with several Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) to ensure that the data plane intensive workloads can benefit from the VMware Telco Platform. We confirmed that the VMware Telco Platform is indeed very capable of supporting data plane workloads. For more information, see the following VMworld presentations:

• Achieving High Performance with NFV Data Plane Workloads: The Secrets (T5G1105BE)

• Ericsson Virtual Packet Gateway on vCloud NFV: Cooperation and Optimization (T5G2264BE)

Summary of Recommendations:

This section provides the summary of configuration information discussed in this guide and from additional resources.

Note:

Before applying any of the configuration parameters, you must test them in a lab when measuring the effect on the environment and the VNF performance.