Policy-based network service fingerprinting
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsDamien Power, Patrick Fleming, Michael J. McGrath, Jonathan Kenny, David Hunt
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Abstract
A data center orchestrator, including: a hardware platform; a host fabric interface to communicatively couple the orchestrator to a network; an orchestrator engine to provide a data center orchestration function; and a data structure, including a network function virtualization definition (NFVD) instance, the NFVD instance including a definition for instantiating a virtual network function (VNF) on a host platform, including a telemetry fingerprint policy description (TFPD) for the VNF, wherein the TFPD includes information to collect telemetry data selected from a set of available telemetry data for the host platform.
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A data center orchestrator, comprising:
- a hardware platform;
- a host fabric interface to communicatively couple the orchestrator to a network;
- an orchestrator engine to provide a data center orchestration function;
- and
- a data structure, comprising a network function virtualization definition (NFVD) instance, the NFVD instance comprising a definition for instantiating a virtual network function (VNF) on a host platform, including a telemetry fingerprint policy description (TFPD) for the VNF, wherein the TFPD comprises information to collect telemetry data selected from a set of available telemetry data for the host platform.
One or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums having stored thereon instructions to cause a hardware platform to:
- communicatively couple a network;
- provide a data center orchestration function;
- and
- allocate a data structure, comprising a network function virtualization definition (NFVD) instance, the NFVD instance comprising a definition for instantiating a virtual network function (VNF) on a host platform, including a telemetry fingerprint policy description (TFPD) for the VNF, wherein the TFPD comprises information to collect telemetry data selected from a set of available telemetry data for the host platform.
A data center host platform, comprising:
- a hardware platform comprising telemetry collection capability;
- a host fabric interface to communicatively couple the hardware platform to a network;
- logic to run a virtual network function (VNF) instance on the hardware platform;
- and
- a telemetry collector to:
- receive a telemetry fingerprint policy specific to the VNF instance;
- collect telemetry from the hardware platform for the VNF according to the telemetry fingerprint policy;
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- report the telemetry to an orchestrator via the HFI.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.