A key enhancement in this version of the vCloud NFV OpenStack Edition platform is the support for advanced packet processing acceleration. Both control or user plane workloads can take advantage of this capability and achieve higher throughput, reduced latency, and scale in performance.
Scope VNF components that require high network throughput can achieve high data plane performance by using the advanced switching fabric that is introduced with the NSX-T Data Center N-VDS and Edge cluster acceleration in Three-Pod configurations.
Design Objectives The VMware vCloud NFV OpenStack Edition platform includes NSX-T Data Center as the virtualized networking component. NSX-T Data Center leverages DPDK techniques to support data plane intensive VNFs efficiently. The NSX-T Data Center networking stack increases the CPU efficiency while preserving the existing functionality of the VMware NFV infrastructure. The new high-performance switching and enhanced platform awareness delivers the VMware advanced networking architecture that will be transparent to VNF providers and delivers kernel-based security, deterministic resource allocation, and linear scalability.