Open Networking Summit Europe 2019

We will share our experience for bring up an NFV cloud of 800 nodes using self-developed AUTO tools in Nanjing, China. The cloud is one of the resource pools that support the core network for China Mobile. It includes 800 x86 servers, and more than 150 network switches. Integrating such scale of NFV cloud requires huge work load, including configuring all the hardware, deploying multiple software, and verifying at each step to make sure no error will bring to the next level. In order to improve the efficiency and quality of integration, China Mobile develops an automatic integration and testing platform: AUTO. With AUTO, we reduce the whole integration period by almost one month.
We will share a demo video we took during the integration procedure in Nanjing, in which AUTO is configuring and checking the hardware and network connections, and within 30min, 641 errors are detected.