US 2018/0121227 A1 · HARDWARE ACCELERATION METHOD AND RELATED DEVICE

Abstract

The present invention provides a hardware acceleration method and a related device. The hardware acceleration method includes: determining, by a functional entity, a requirement of a to-be-accelerated virtualized network function VNF; determining, by the functional entity, a target virtualized infrastructure manager VIM; and deploying, by the functional entity, the to-be-accelerated VNF onto a target host in a management domain of the target VIM by using the target VIM. In the present invention, the functional entity deploys the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the target host whose hardware matching resource meets the requirement in the to-be-accelerated VNF, so that the type of the hardware acceleration resource required in the to-be-accelerated VNF can match a type of the hardware matching resource of the target host, and the hardware matching resource of the target host can meet an acceleration requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF, thereby effectively improving performance of the to-be-accelerated VNF.

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Dependent claims

A hardware acceleration method, comprising:

determining, by a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO), a requirement of a to-be-accelerated virtualized network function (VNF), wherein the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF includes a type of a required hardware acceleration resource, and a size of the required hardware acceleration resource in the to-be-accelerated VNF;
determining, by the NFVO, that a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) corresponding to a target host is a target VIM, wherein a hardware match resource of the target host meets the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF;
and
deploying, by the NFVO, the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the target host in a management domain of the target VIM by using the target VIM.

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A hardware acceleration method, comprising:

determining, by a virtualized network function manager (VNFM), a requirement of a to-be-accelerated virtualized network function (VNF), wherein the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF includes a type of a required hardware acceleration resource, and a size of the required hardware acceleration resource in the to-be-accelerated VNF in a management domain of a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO);
determining, by the VNFM, that a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) corresponding to a target host is a target VIM, wherein a hardware match resource of the target host meets the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF;
and
deploying, by the VNFM, the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the target host in a management domain of the target VIM by using the target VIM.

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An apparatus, comprising:

a processor;
and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to the processor and storing programming instructions for execution by the processor, the programming instructions instruct the processor to:
determine a requirement of a to-be-accelerated virtualized network function (VNF), wherein the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF includes a type of a required hardware acceleration resource, and a size of the required hardware acceleration resource in the to-be-accelerated VNF;
determine that a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) corresponding to a target host is a target VIM, wherein a hardware match resource of the target host meets the requirement of the to-be-accelerated VNF;
and
deploy the to-be-accelerated VNF onto the target host in a management domain of the target VIM by using the target VIM.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Hardware acceleration method and related device

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