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Our aspiration is also to make existing use cases always leverage HPA functionality as part of integration testing. 

Stretch goal: is to support multiple choices in specifying a feature requirement in policies.

Owner :  Alex Vul

Participating Companies: Intel, VMware

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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

HPA Automation JIRA Issues