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Performance Best Practices for Data Plane Intensive CNFs

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Updated on 08/18/2023

The performance of the data plane intensive CNF in a host depends on the compute and network capacity allocated to the CNF. The compute and
network capacity requirements of the data plane intensive CNFs can vary based on the type of CNF.

Network-bound CNFs: Some data plane intensive CNFs do simple packet forwarding. These CNFs are network bound and their throughput is
limited by the allocated network capacity in the host.

CPU-bound CNFs: In addition to packet forwarding, other data plane CNFs perform Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), filtering, heuristics, and so on.
These data plane CNFs are CPU bound and their throughput is limited by the allocated compute capacity in the host.

The performance best practices for the data plane CNFs focus on the compute and network components in the following logical tiers of VMware Telco
Cloud Platform.

Physical Infrastructure Tier includes the physical compute, physical network, and the physical storage. This guide focuses on the compute and
networking components that are pivotal for proper workload performance.

Telco Could Infrastructure Tier includes software-defined infrastructure, software-defined storage, and software-defined networking.

Telco Cloud Platform Tier includes:

A Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) layer built on top of the Telco Cloud Infrastructure tier using VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid.

An automation layer responsible for customization of the Telco Cloud Infrastructure tier, creation of Kubernetes clusters, onboarding and
lifecycle management of CNFs and VNFs, and network services using VMware Telco Cloud Automation.

Note:

We recommend that you learn more about these telco cloud tiers by referring to the VMware Telco Cloud Reference Architecture Guide
3.0.

What to read next

Physical Infrastructure Tier

The Physical Infrastructure Tier must be set up correctly to support high data throughput and low latency for the data plane intensive CNFs. [Read
more]

Telco Cloud Platform

In Telco Cloud Platform, VMs with VMware Photon OS as the guest OS are used as container hosts to provision Tanzu Kubernetes clusters at the CaaS
Layer. The container hosts that host the CNFs are commonly called Worker Node VMs or Worker Nodes. You must apply several compute and network
best practices directly to the Worker Nodes to meet the performance requirements of the data plane CNFs. [Read more]

Enhanced Data Path

NSX Enhanced Data Path (EDP) is a virtualized networking stack, targeted for NFV workloads that require higher performance than regular workloads.
EDP uses the DPDK Poll Mode driver and improves packet rate and latency significantly. [Read more]

Overlay
To leverage the benefits of Overlay network topologies, the NSX Bare Metal Edge Node is used as the entry and exit point from the virtual to the
physical domain. To achieve independence from the underlying physical network, GENEVE encapsulation is used. [Read more]

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