This Reference Architecture Guide supports the following Network Function Virtualization (NFV) features:
- NUMA
- Hugepages
- OVS-DPDK
- SR-IOV
- SR-IOV with Open vSwitch (OVS) offload
- DVR
Note: All the
NFV features on
AMD computes are supported with processor mode
NPS=1
(NUMA nodes per Socket ). So, before deployments, make sure
AMD servers are set to
NPS Mode 1
in the BIOS
Note: All of the above
NFV features can be enabled by using the JetPack version
16.1 automation toolkit.
Note:
Red Hat OpenStack Platform version
16.1 has
Open Virtual Network (OVN) controller as the default software defined networking solution for supplying network services to
OVN
OpenStack . However,
OVN has limited
NFV feature support at this time.
JetPack version
16.1 automation toolkit installs
Red Hat OpenStack Platform version
16.1 with
OVS controller as default, to fully support all the
NFV features.