NFV Virtual Services with Cisco NSO and ESC v1 now available on Cisco dCloud!

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Overview

This Cisco® NFV Management and Orchestration(MANO) solution using Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) and Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) demonstrates:

• NFV MANO solution capabilities with NSO and ESC in an OpenStack environment
• Deployment and life-cycle management of Cisco and third-party virtualized network functions (VNFs)
• Physical and virtual provisioning

This demonstration shows NSO and ESC working together to create and maintain an NFV service chain. The service chain is a hosted corporate service that consists of four VNFs hosted in the service provider’s data center.

Check it out here: https://dcloud-cms.cisco.com/demo/nfv-virtual-services-nso-esc-v1

Scenarios

• Scenario 1: Prepare Environment
• Scenario 2: Add Physical CE to VPN Volvo
• Scenario 3: Add Virtual Service to VPN Volvo
• Scenario 4: Scale Out Services
• Scenario 5: Add Physical CE to Volvo VPN
• Scenario 6: Terminate Virtual and Physical Services

Requirements

Required	Optional
Laptop	Cisco AnyConnect®

Components

• OpenStack
• Cisco NSO
• Cisco ESC
• Traffic simulator
• Client VM
• Simulated MPLS network
• VNFs
  • vCSR
  • ASAv
  • Load balancer
  • Web server

Features

Provision a physical network	Connect CE to a VPN. Demonstrate NSO functions: commit dry run and native commit dry run.
Deploy a virtual service chain	Use NFVO function pack: VNFD, NSD, and NSR
Scale a VNF	Use ESC and Web Traffic Simulator to scale a VNF

Topology