公开(公告)号：US20170318097A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-02

申请号：US15142141

申请日：2016-04-29

Applicant: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP

Inventor： Julie Ward Drew ,  Freddy Chua ,  Ying Zhang ,  Puneet Sharma ,  Bernardo Huberman

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/911

CPC classification number: H04L67/16 ,  H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/145 ,  H04L45/64 ,  H04L47/783 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04L67/2833

Abstract: Example implementations relate to virtualized network function (VNF) placements. For example, VNF placements may include generating an initial mapping of a plurality of VNFs among a plurality of nodes of a network infrastructure, wherein the initial VNF mapping distributes each of a plurality of service chains associated with the plurality of VNFs to different top-of-rack switches. VNF placement may include generating an alternate VNF mapping of the plurality of VNFs among a portion of the plurality of nodes, wherein the alternate VNF mapping corresponds to a metric associated with node resource utilization and a particular amount of servers utilized by distributing the plurality of service chains according to the alternate VNF mapping. VNF placement may include placing the plurality of VNFs according to a selected placement from the initial VNF mapping and the alternate VNF mapping.