Method and apparatus for workload feedback mechanism facilitating a closed loop architecture

A system comprising:

• Network Functions Virtual Infrastructure (NFVI) including,
• a server platform having one or more hardware components configured to generate platform telemetry data;
• a telemetry collector, configured to collect platform telemetry data generated by the one or more hardware components;
• at least one virtual network function (VNF) configured to run on the server platform to perform a respective workload and generate performance indicia indicative of a workload performance level of the VNF;
• and
• an analytics system, configured to,
• receive or access platform telemetry data collected by the telemetry collector and the performance indicia generated by the at least one VNF;
• and
• provide a platform configuration adjustment recommendation to be used to adjust the configuration of at least one of the one or more hardware components based on analysis of the platform telemetry data and the performance indicia.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having instructions comprising a plurality of software components configured to be executed in a distributed environment include a first server platform having platform hardware comprising a plurality of hardware components, wherein the plurality of software components include:

• a platform telemetry monitor, configured to be executed on the first server platform and configured to collect platform telemetry data generated by the first server platform and provide or publish collected platform telemetry data to one of a data collection monitoring tool or an analytics system;
• a first Virtual Network Function (VNF), configured to,
• perform a workload via execution on the first server platform;
• monitor workload performance;
• and
• generate performance indicia based on the monitored workload performance;
• and
• provide the performance indicia to one of the data collection monitoring tool or the analytics system;
• and
• the analytics system, configured to,
• receive or access platform telemetry data collected by the platform telemetry monitor and receive or access the performance indicia generated by the first VNF;
• and
• provide a platform configuration adjustment recommendation to be used to adjust the configuration of at least one of the one or more hardware components on the first server platform based on analysis of the platform telemetry data and the performance indicia.