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- Ready with right setup Intel/WR lab
- Have few compute nodes with right HW
- Ensure to have SRIOV-NIC cards
- Ensure to have crypto accelerator cards (QAT)
- Usage of CLI /Portal only - Work with the teams to avoid any curl commands and , update of DB entries, kubectl exec & configuration files.
- Work on some of the gaps identified in Casablanca (Issues listed here: HPA Hardening Issues)
- New vIPSEC sample VNF : Create a new sample VNF (IPSEC VNF) for them to leverage crypto accelerator cards.
- Start with traditional Ubuntu with QAT driver installed.
- Create new test cases with various HPA features assigned to VNFs. Few example:
- vFW with dedicated cores, SRIOV-NIC VF, Huge pages
- vIPSEC with QAT
- vIPSEC with AES-NI
- Work with Integration team to add the test cases in integration project.
- Work with demo repository owners to introduce new sample VNFs and add new HEAT/ENV files for existing use cases
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