About HPE Telco Blueprint Information Center

Welcome to HPE Telco Blueprint Information Center, your one-stop source for information on the validated Telco Blueprints. This Information Center provides you with information on:

All the Telco Blueprints that have been curated and validated.
Lists of hardware, software, and firmware that have been validated as part of individual Telco Blueprints. You can use these lists to choose optimal hardware, and mix and match them as per your requirements.
Virtual Infrastructure Managers (VIM) options:
- Red Hat OpenStack Platform
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
- VMware vCloud NFV OpenStack
Automated Network Function Virtualization Platform Software (NPS) toolkit deployment to ensure effortless installation and configuration of the Telco blueprint.
For instance, as system integrators, you can choose to deploy NPS toolkit along with one or all of its following modules:
- Networking modules
- Controller, compute, and storage modules
- VIM (Virtualized Infrastructure Manager) modules
With this option, you can deploy any of the modules independently with any Redfish-compliant hardware and HPE Telco Blueprint software.
The document also contains steps to manually install and configure the components, as needed.

Audience

The primary audiences for the Information Center are:

Telco operators—who can use this information center to select the hardware, software, and networking components that best meet their requirements and use them to custom build their infrastructure.
System integrators—who are responsible for bringing up the networking environment for their clients. Using this document, the integrators can install and configure the hardware and networking components to bring up a customized environment for their clients.

Scope

The information center currently covers the following Telco Blueprints with the respective VIM options:

Table 1: HPE Telco Blueprints with Red Hat OpenStack Platform
HPE Telco Core Blueprint Documents	HPE Telco Edge Blueprint Documents
HPE Telco Core Blueprint C3	HPE Telco Edge Blueprint E1
HPE Telco Core Blueprint C4	HPE Telco Edge Blueprint E3
HPE Telco Core Blueprint C5	HPE Telco Edge Blueprint E4
HPE Telco Core Blueprint C6
HPE Telco Core Blueprint C7

Table 2: HPE Telco Blueprints with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
HPE Telco Core Blueprint Documents	HPE Telco Edge Blueprint Documents
HPE Telco Core Blueprint C10

Table 3: HPE Telco Blueprints with VMware vCloud NFV OpenStack
HPE Telco Core Blueprint Documents
HPE Telco Core Blueprint C8

The information center is periodically updated to cover the released HPE Telco Blueprints (Core and Edge) at a predefined cadence. For information on individual Blueprints, see the release-specific HPE Telco Blueprint documentation available at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Information Library.

How to navigate the document

The following table provides you an overview of what to expect in each of the chapters:

Part Number	Part Name	Description
Part 1	HPE Telco Blueprints overview	This part provides a brief introduction to HPE Telco Blueprints
Part 2	HPE Telco Blueprint validated hardware and VIM combinations	This part provides the information on validated hardware and VIM combinations
Part 3	HPE Telco Blueprint Virtual Infrastructure Manager options	This part provides information on multiple VIM options that have been validated with HPE Telco Blueprints.
Deploying Red Hat OpenStack Platform Virtual Infrastructure Manager	This subdocument provides information to deploy Telco Blueprint using NPS toolkit with Red Hat OpenStack Platform as the VIM.
	Introduction to Red Hat OpenStack Platform	Covers the brief introduction of HPE Telco Blueprint in combination with Red Hat OpenStack Platform VIM.
	HPE Telco Blueprint logical architecture	This covers the logical architecture of the components in the HPE Telco Blueprint solution that uses Red Hat OpenStack Platform as VIM option.
	HPE Telco Blueprints Mix-and-Match	This section covers all the hardware, storage, switches, software and firmware versions and combinations that have been validated and the recommended options for customization.
	Predeployment procedure	This section covers the prerequisite knowledge and tasks that must be completed before proceeding with the deployment.
	Deployment procedure	This part provides all the related procedures to deploy the Telco Blueprint with Red Hat OpenStack Platform as the VIM.
	Management procedures	This part provides information on some of the procedures that you might perform after Telco Blueprint deployment for various reasons: Backup and restore procedures Startup and shutdown procedures
	Troubleshooting	This part covers the description of issues that you might encounter during Blueprint deployment and the steps to rectify them.
	Manual procedures	This part covers all the manual procedures. You can refer to this section in the event you need to perform any deployment procedure manually.
Deploying VMware vCloud NFV OpenStack Virtual Infrastructure Manager	This subdocument provides information to deploy Telco Blueprint using NPS toolkit with VMware vCloud NFV OpenStack as the VIM.
	Introduction to VMware vCloud NFV OpenStack Virtual Infrastructure Manager	Covers the brief introduction of HPE Telco Blueprint in combination with VMware vCloud NFV OpenStack.
	HPE Telco Blueprint logical architecture	This covers the logical architecture of the components in the HPE Telco Blueprint solution that uses VMware vCloud NFV OpenStack as VIM option.
	HPE Telco Blueprints Validated Combination	This section covers the hardware, switches, software, and firmware components and versions validated with VMware vCloud NFV OpenStack VIM and the recommended options for customization.
	Predeployment procedure	This section covers the prerequisite knowledge and tasks that must be completed before proceeding with the deployment.
	Deployment Procedure	This part provides all the related procedures to deploy the Telco Blueprint with VMware vCloud NFV OpenStack as the VIM.
	Management procedures	This part provides information on some of the procedures that you might perform after Telco Blueprint deployment for various reasons: Backup and restore procedures Startup and shutdown procedures
	Troubleshooting	This part covers the description of issues that you might encounter during Blueprint deployment and the steps to rectify them.
	Manual procedures	This part covers all the manual procedures. You can refer to this section in the event you need to perform any deployment procedure manually.
Deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Virtual Infrastructure Manager	This subdocument provides information to deploy Telco Blueprint using NPS toolkit with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as the VIM.
	Introduction to Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Virtual Infrastructure Manager	Covers the brief introduction of HPE Telco Blueprint in combination with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform VIM.
	HPE Telco Blueprint logical architecture	Covers the logical architecture of the components in the HPE Telco Blueprint solution that uses Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as VIM option.
	HPE Telco Blueprints Mix-and-Match	Covers all the hardware, storage, switches, software and firmware versions and combinations that have been validated and the recommended options for customization.
	Predeployment procedure	Covers the prerequisite knowledge and tasks that must be completed before proceeding with the deployment.
	Deployment Procedure	Covers all the related procedures to deploy the Telco Blueprint with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as the VIM.
	Management procedures	Covers some of the procedures that you might perform after Telco Blueprint deployment for various reasons: Backup and restore procedures Shutdown and startup procedures
	Troubleshooting	Covers the description of issues that you might encounter during Blueprint deployment and the steps to rectify them.
	Manual procedures	Covers all the manual procedures. You can refer to this section in the event you need to perform any deployment procedure manually.