Automated Analysis and Profiling of Virtual Network Functions: the NFV-Inspector Approach

Michel Gokan Khan, Javid Taheri, Andreas Kassler, Marian Darula

Abstract: Discovering insights about Virtual Network Function (VNFs) resource demand characteristics will enable cloud vendors to optimize their underlying Network Function Virtualization (NFV) system orchestration and dramatically mitigate CapEx and OpEx spendings. However, analyzing large-scale NFV systems, especially in mobile network environments, is a challenging task and requires tailor-made approaches for each particular application. In this demo, we showcase NFV-Inspector, an open source and extensible VNF analysis platform that is capable of systematically benchmark and profile NFV deployments. Based on its pluggable framework, NFV-Inspector classifies VNFs resource demand characteristics and correlate their Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with system-level Quality of Service (QoS) measurements.