About control plane

The control plane provides the central management system for the telco cloud deployments. The control function includes VIM controllers.

Virtual Infrastructure Manager

The Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) is a functional block responsible for controlling, managing, and monitoring the NFVI compute, storage, and network hardware, the software for the virtualization layer, and the virtualized resources.

The VIM component manages the compute virtualization and the network virtualization for the NFVI component.

You can choose to use the NPS toolkit to deploy the VMware vCloud NFV Openstack. The following components are deployed on Management Pod.

  • Management vCenter server

  • Resource vCenter server

  • NSX-T Data Center

  • VMware Integrated Openstack

  • VMware vRealize Operations Manager

  • VMware vRealize Orchestrator Appliance

  • VMware vRealize Log Insight

Management Pod is segregated into two types of traffic. One is Infrastructure service traffic and the other is Virtual Machine traffic. The following table provides the NIC adapter details for Infrastructure service traffic and Virtual machine traffic in the Management Pod.

Role

Infrastructure Service Traffic

Virtual Machine Traffic

Management Pod

1 x HPE Ethernet 10/25Gb 2-port 640FLR-SFP28 Adapter

1 x HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 562SFP+ Adapter

In Management Pod there are two vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS), one for Infrastructure Service Traffic and the other for Virtual Machine Traffic.

VDS configuration for Management Pod

Each VDS has two uplink ports. They are connected with physical adapters as listed in the table. The configuration on the VDS switch with load balancing option is Route based on originating virtual port. The corresponding VDS uplinks are placed in active adapter option.