Optimize Virtualized Infrastructure Using Repeatable Performance Testing.
Service providers are migrating to 5G networks where Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and containerization are key building blocks of their telco cloud architecture. This requires integration of complex hardware and software solutions from diverse vendors, and the performance of the complete system is only as good as the weakest link. This means it is critical to dimension and configure the NFV infrustructure (NFVI) properly to scale and sustain these high-performance workloads. The NFVI must achieve the often competing goals of scalability, performance, and reliability, requiring a new, rigorous, and repeatable methodology to test the virtualized infrastructure. This methodology should assess compute, network, storage, and orchestrator performance to help service providers perform vendor selection, optimize their virtualized infrastructures, and identify performance bottlenecks. Keysight Cloud Peak is a software application that implements such methodologies in an easy-to-use framework. In this webinar we will discuss these challenges, how Cloud Peak provides comprehensive methodologies to address them, and review actual test results that compare NFVI solutions from different vendors.