Case Attributes | Description | Informational |
Type | New |
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Blueprint Family - Proposed Name | Integrated Edge Cloud (IEC) |
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Use Case | VPC, 5G UPF |
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Blueprint proposed Name | IEC Type 5: SmartNIC |
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Initial POD Cost (capex) | VPC: 1 Rack with 2 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC UPF: 3 servers, each server with 1 SmartNIC |
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Scale & Type | In the gateway, infrastructure service, and edge cloud |
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Applications | Short Video Applications, UPF |
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Power Restrictions | SmartNIC: 35W |
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Infrastructure orchestration | - Bare Metal Provisioning：Ironic
- Kubernetes Provisioning：KuD
- Bare Metal:
- Host
Orchestrator Kubernetes - OS: Centos, Debian
- Network：ciliumSmartNic: cilium/OVN/ovs-vswitchd/ovs-dpdk/spdk
- Virtual Machine and Container:
- Host
- HV Network: virt-io/cilium/OVN/
SmartNic Arm cores- ovs-vswitchd/ovs-dpdk/spdk
Bare Metal Provisioning：ovs- SmartNic Arm cores
- Network: cilium/ovs-dpdk/ovs-vswitchd/spdk
Kubernetes Provisioning：ciliumovs-vswitchd/ovs-dpdk/spdk - Docker for containers and Kubevirt for VMs
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SDN | OVN, SRIOV |
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Workload Type | |
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Additional Details | SmartNic features: - Needs to provide mechanism to recover from the system crashes remotely.
- Support PXE protocol
- Secure boot/Secure Key Storage
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