Nokia CloudBand Infrastructure Software

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CloudBand Infrastructure Software is a ready-to-use software solution

geared towards customers who seek an easy way to build a serviceable,
highly available, secure and protected virtual infrastructure that supports
NFV, is simple to operate and is easily upgraded.

CloudBand Infrastructure Software (CBIS) virtualizes CloudBand Infrastructure Software virtualizes

and manages compute, storage and network storage resources across servers, supporting Ceph
resources to enable Virtualized Network Functions block storage, file storage and object storage, as
(VNFs) to run while meeting strict requirements for well as one or more external storage arrays. It offers
robustness, performance and security. Each CBIS a rich set of features, including Enhanced Platform
instance manages one NFVI node composed of Awareness (EPA) for high performance VNFs; robust
VNFs distributed across one or more HW elements security solutions; flexible support of hardware and
in one or more datacentre racks, typically in a single rich monitoring capabilities.
geographical location. CBIS performs the ETSI The platform is easy to install operate, and manage
MANO Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM) function life cycle with automated procedures, from the
for VMs. CBIS provides the virtualization software CBIS Manager, an intuitive graphical user interface.
(hypervisor, virtual switch, monitoring and Bare In addition to its function as Infrastructure life
Metal) installed on each server. cycle management tool, the CBIS Manager is also
a launchpad to other OpenStack interfaces.

Benefits
• Serviceability – automation tools minimize CloudBand Infrastructure Software provides
operational costs extensive analytics and monitoring, notifying
higher management systems of events and alarms.
• Security – Robust security solutions with OS,
Advanced Performance Monitoring with exporting
protocols, webservers, etc. hardening check mode
capabilities and visual system KPIs, helps service
and rollback. Conformance to ANSSI, EU-GDPR,
providers quickly identify failures and looks for
and more
risks that could affect the performance of VNFs
• Openness – based on open source, to avoid and services.
vendor lock-in, enable rapid innovation, and
The validated open source and standards-based
multi-vendor interoperability.
northbound APIs make it easy to work with higher-
• Service assurance – meets stringent telco level managers and orchestrators from any vendor,
performance and availability requirements enabling interoperability and avoiding vendor lock-in.

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With CloudBand Infrastructure Software, operators for many use cases across different environments.
benefit from the rapid pace of open source Our experience ensures fast, stable deployments
innovation without the burden of the integrating together with streamlined operations.
and supporting all of the components required The CloudBand team contributes to open source
in a carrier-grade product. This is enabled by upstream development to ensure carrier
the CloudBand infrastructure team’s extensive requirements are met.
experience in building and deploying NFV platforms

Logical architecture and main functions

At the resource layer, CloudBand Infrastructure Software virtualizes compute resources using a KVM
hypervisor for VNFs workloads and Bare metal infrastructure for CNFs workloads. Compute resources
are tuned for performance and supporting enhanced platform awareness.

CBIS
REST API and CLI CBIS GUI

Security hardening and policies

Operation and serviceability
Infra lifecycle management

Reporting and analytics

Monitoring and alerting

High availability

Authorization and access control

Virtualized
infrastructure
manager
vStorage vNetworking vCompute

Hardware options

Storage
CBIS virtualizes storage resources across servers, Support for fast pools ensures better utilization
supporting Ceph block storage, file storage and of all storage capacity, by allocating spare space
object storage. In addition, there is support for on disks. When used together with Availability
local storage and/or one or more external storage Zones, multiple pools enable you to define multiple
arrays. Multiple virtualized storage tiers are provided, security zones within a single cloud environment.
including server mounted disks and SSD, pooled via
Ceph and multiple external mass storage arrays.

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Networking CBIS works with VNF managers, Application life Cycle
Manager, orchestrators and operational support
Software-based and hardware-accelerated (OVS- systems (OSS) from any vendor through OpenStack
DPDK and SR-IOV) virtualized network connectivity compliant north-bound APIs for the following tasks:
are provided via a tuned Open vSwitch or Nuage • Configuration management: It supports
Networks Virtualized Services Platform, the Nokia configuration management of the physical and
SDN solution. virtualized resources, automated installation and
With its enhanced platform awareness and commissioning of NFVI and Bare Metal nodes
advanced networking capabilities, CloudBand for NCS deployment, addition and replacement
Infrastructure Software supports high performance of hardware elements, in-service software
VNFs and CNFs. This includes OVS Offload, FPGA upgrades, patch management and backup and
based NICs, SR-IOV, OVS-DPDK, bonding options restore. An NFVI node can be installed with an
for protection, huge pages for guest VMs and automated process, achieving fully functional
Containers on VMs (NCS in CN-A mode), NUMA NFVI+VIM+SDN operation in less than three
awareness, enhanced CPU pinning options and CPU hours. The installation process supports multiple
isolation for host processes – all configured and hardware blueprints, IPv4/IPv6 dual stack, SDN
ready for use. or Open vSwitch networking, logging and other
customization options.
Compute Infrastructure • Resource orchestration: Infrastructure Software
provides information on availability of resources
CloudBand Infrastructure Software provides tools
and provisions them on request.
and a blueprinting process for easy integration
with server, storage and network hardware from • Application orchestration: Infrastructure Software
any vendor. It is pre-integrated and validated with provisions VNFs based on Heat Orchestration
Nokia AirFrame. In addition, CBIS offers customers Templates upon request from VNF managers.
the flexibility to select their hardware of choice for • Networking: Open vSwitch (OVS)-based, SR-
certification with the platform, based on defined IOV and SDN-based networking options are
prerequisites. available with Layer 2 and Layer 3 routing
between networks. OVS networks are VLAN or
Security VxLAN based and offer managed or unmanaged
IP Address Management. Nokia NI provides SDN
CloudBand Infrastructure Software provides security networking options (e.g. Nuage, FSS) with VLAN
settings to address configuration management using and VXLAN based connectivity, seamless peering
automated hardening tools based on Ansible security with MPLS networks and automated extension
playbooks to implement hardening procedures of connectivity across multiple NFVI nodes and
that address the related standards, customers and datacenters. The SDN can provide policy-based
best-practice security requirements. For improved routing and service function chaining.
system operation and maintenance, hardening
Check Mode and Rollback are provided. A unique • Pure IPv4 or IPv6 installations and single or dual
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) mechanism allows stack virtual networks are available.
the operator to restrict user authorized actions • Fault management and troubleshooting are
on a system. The permissions to perform certain supported through Zabbix and ELK monitoring of
operations are assigned to specific roles and users software and hardware elements, including physical
based on its policies. switches, host network interface cards, virtual
Platform and VNF security will be enhanced with switches and multiple storage devices and services.
encrypted volumes and soon with Ceph encryption • Alerts can be configured and delivered to higher
for secure data at rest. layer management systems.

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• Performance management is supported through stateless functions and active/standby for stateful
metrics (Zabbix), threshold crossing alarm and functions or dedicated high availability mechanisms
exporting capabilities with visualized system KPIs (e.g. for Ceph). To prevent inconsistencies, a
• Support for security standards, including North three-party quorum failover procedure is used.
American and European certification, stringent Infrastructure Software does not guarantee high
security hardening, and common security availability for guest virtual network functions but
protocols. provides availability zones, anti-affinity placement
policies and fully redundant networking to help
VNFs and CNFs achieve this goal.
In Service Software Upgrade For servers lacking hardware RAID, software RAID is
CloudBand Infrastructure Software can be upgraded provided for the Operating System disk.
to new releases, including new OpenStack releases,
Storage node NIC redundancy provides high
while remaining in service. Failed components
availability in case of server NIC failure.
can be recovered automatically. A configurable
backup and restore function based on customer
preferences is available. Automation and
High Availability Management
The CloudBand Infrastructure Software exposes
CloudBand Infrastructure Software offers APIs that can be used by an external OSS
high availability with no single point of failure. management system to configure and manage CBIS
Management functions including OpenStack cluster in the same way as with the CBIS Manager.
components are redundant, using load sharing for

Product characteristics
Turnkey solution Pre-integrated and validated, configurable automated installation, tuned for NFV
High availability and carrier In-service software upgrade; no single point of failure; quorum based; patch management; backup and
grade operations restore; security hardened; live migration, host evacuate, log aggregator
Certified hardware options Nokia AirFrame, HPE RM G10; Dell Power Edge RM
Analytics Suite Monitoring and troubleshooting tools
Storage options • Distributed storage based on Ceph; hyper-converged or external storage nodes for high IOPs/ capacity
demands (EMC, HPE 3PAR)1
• Support for fast pools, multiple pools object & file storage
Networking OVS-DPDK, OVS, SR-IOV, IPv4/IPv6/dual stack, VLAN, VxLAN, SDN via integration with Nuage VSP and FSS
Built for performance Huge pages; NUMA awareness; SR-IOV, OVS-DPDK, bonding; host CPU isolation; CPU pinning
Security • Automated hardening tools based on Ansible security playbooks with Check Mode and Rollback.
• Conformance to ANSSI, EU-GDPR, and more
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) mechanism to restrict user authorized actions on a system
Serviceability and • Automated procedures for Installation of OpenStack VMs and containers on VMs, upgrade and rollback
operability • Computes, storage nodes scale in/out, server reboot and maintenance mode, replace controller,
backup and restore, and adding/removing multiple external storage nodes to the cluster.
• Patch management for a single and/or multiple CBIS clusters.
• Security hardening, check mode and rollback, secrets and certificates update, LDAP integration, secured
communication and dynamic keys management.
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Some configurations will require additional certification by services.

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Document code: CID200058 (May 2022)