ETSI GS NFV-EVE 001 V3.1.1 (2017-07)

Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Virtualisation Technologies; Hypervisor Domain Requirements specification; Release 3

DGS/NFV-EVE001

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 24-Jul-2017
• Technical Committee: NFV EVE - Evolution and Ecosystem
• Current Stage: 12 - Completion
• Due Date: 04-Aug-2017
• Completion Date: 25-Jul-2017

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ETSI GS NFV-EVE 001 V3.1.1 (2017-07)






GROUP SPECIFICATION
Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV);
Virtualisation Technologies;
Hypervisor Domain Requirements specification;
Release 3
Disclaimer
The present document has been produced and approved by the Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) ETSI Industry
Specification Group (ISG) and represents the views of those members who participated in this ISG.
It does not necessarily represent the views of the entire ETSI membership.

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Reference
DGS/NFV-EVE001
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Contents
Intellectual Property Rights . 4
Foreword . 4
Modal verbs terminology . 4
1 Scope . 5
2 References . 5
2.1 Normative references . 5
2.2 Informative references . 5
3 Definitions and abbreviations . 6
3.1 Definitions . 6
3.2 Abbreviations . 6
4 Hypervisor Domain Overview . 7
5 Requirements of the Hypervisor Domain . 9
5.1 Introduction . 9
5.2 General Requirements . 9
5.3 Real Time Guest Support . 10
5.4 vSwitch Resiliency . 10
5.5 NFV Acceleration Support . 10
5.6 Security . 11
5.7 Energy Efficiency requirements . 11
5.8 Performance management requirements . 11
Annex A (informative): Authors & contributors . 12
Annex B (informative): Bibliography . 13
Annex C (informative): Change History . 14
History . 15


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Intellectual Property Rights
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Foreword
This Group Specification (GS) has been produced by ETSI Industry Specification Group (ISG) Network Functions
Virtualisation (NFV).
Modal verbs terminology
In the present document "shall", "shall not", "should", "should not", "may", "need not", "will", "will not", "can" and
"cannot" are to be interpreted as described in clause 3.2 of the ETSI Drafting Rules (Verbal forms for the expression of
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1 Scope
The present document provides requirements for the hypervisor domain as it pertains to an operator's network. It
focuses on gaps between Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) use cases and the industry state of art at the time of
publication. Therefore requirements that are deemed to be supported by most hypervisor solutions at the time of
publication are not repeated in the present document.
2 References
2.1 Normative references
References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific. For specific references, only the cited version applies. For non-specific references, the latest version of the
reference document (including any amendments) applies.
Referenced documents which are not found to be publicly available in the expected location might be found at
http://docbox.etsi.org/Reference.
NOTE: While any hyperlinks included in this clause were valid at the time of publication, ETSI cannot guarantee
their long term validity.
The following referenced documents are necessary for the application of the present document.
[1] ETSI GS NFV 003: "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Terminology for Main Concepts in
NFV".
[2] ETSI GS NFV-IFA 002: "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Acceleration Technologies;
VNF interfaces specification".
[3] ETSI GS NFV-IFA 004: "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Acceleration Technologies;
Management aspects specification".
[4] ETSI GS NFV-IFA 018: "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Acceleration Technologies;
Network Acceleration Interface Specification".
[5] ETSI GS NFV-IFA 019: "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Acceleration Technologies;
Acceleration Resource Management Interface Specification".
[6] ETSI GS NFV-SEC 012: "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Security; System architecture
specification for execution of sensitive NFV components".
[7] Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Forum: "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Specification (ACPI)".
NOTE: Available at http://www.uefi.org/specifications.
[8] ETSI GS NFV-TST 008: "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Testing; NFVI Compute and
Network Metrics Specification".
2.2 Informative references
References are either specific (identified by date of publication and/or edition number or version number) or
non-specific. For specific references, only the cited version applies. For non-specific references, the latest version of the
referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
NOTE: While any hyperlinks included in this clause were valid at the time of publication, ETSI cannot guarantee
their long term validity.
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The following referenced documents are not necessary for the application of the present document but they assist the
user with regard to a particular subject area.
[i.1] ETSI GS NFV-INF 004: "Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Infrastructure; Hypervisor
Domain".
3 Definitions and abbreviations
3.1 Definitions
For the purposes of the present document, the terms and definitions given in ETSI GS NFV 003 [1] and the following
apply:
hypervisor: piece of software which partitions the underlying physical resources and creates Virtual Machines, and
isolates the VMs from each other
NOTE: The hypervisor is a piece of software running either directly on top of the hardware (bare metal
hypervisor) or running on top of a hosting operating system (hosted hypervisor). The abstraction of
resources comprises all those entities inside a computer/server which are accessible, like processor,
memory/storage, NICs.
hypervisor domain: general area for focus which includes hypervisors
NOTE: Other elements such as a vswitch can be implemented in the hypervisor domain.
3.2 Abbreviations
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