Versa Director
A Virtualization and Service Creation Platform
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Overview:
Versa Director is Versa Networks’ virtualization and service creation platform that simplifies the creation, automation and delivery of services using Versa WAN edge software, FlexVNF. Versa Director provides the essential management, monitoring and orchestration capabilities needed to deliver Versa’s Secure Cloud IP architecture network and security software services. Services supported by Versa include routing and advanced connectivity to direct traffic across multilink WAN access and simplify control for SD-WAN with embedded advanced security.
Versa Director provides single-pane-of-glass management for connectivity and services. It scales to thousands of end customers or organizations through hierarchical multi-tenancy and role-based administrative capabilities. Combined with Versa FlexVNF WAN edge software, Versa Director provides complete VNF infrastructure lifecycle management for bare metal and virtual machine environments, from deployment and configuration to ongoing monitoring and change management of Versa and third party VNF-based services with automatic actions such as auto-healing and auto-scaling.
Versa Director also provides a rich set of interfaces for effective integration with third party products and services. Versa Director supports service definitions including Versa and third party service components, enabling flexible service chain creation and deployment. In addition, utilizing open and widely available protocol and API formats allows for tight integration with operations and business systems. The result is rapid delivery and simplified ongoing management of Versa-based services, from basic connectivity to advanced SD-WAN and branch security.
Features:
Policy
- Centralized policy management – policy locking, versioning
- CRUD operations on users, roles, capabilities
- VNF placement support using resource pools
Operations
- VNF life cycle management
- uCPE cloudIinit support for VNF instantiation
- Hierarchical Template-based provisioning
- FlexVNF configuration management, backup, restore, archive, rollback
- Hierarchical multi-tenancy support and tenant management
- Service catalogs, subscription plans for tenants – specify flavors, policies
- Service orchestration
- Rest APIs for all operations
- FlexVNF management using industry standard NetConf (RFC 6241)
- Web-based graphical user interface (GUI)
Administration
- Inventory management
- Software management/upgrades
- Client and secure API management for third party integration
- User-management and AAA integration – Radius/LDAP/TACACS+
- Role-based access control
- High availability (Active/Standby only) and disaster recovery
- Configuration audit logs
- Licensing and usage reporting
- SSO (Single-Sign-On) support via SAML
- Licensing and Entitlement management
Monitoring
- FlexVNF monitoring – System, Cluster, Interface, Alarms
- Service monitoring – SNMP MIBs, counters, statistics
- Auto-healing
- AMQP based notifications
Service Chaining Support
- Service chaining policy definition for FlexVNFs and third party VNFs
Deployment Options
- Bare metal
- Virtual machine
- Public Cloud (AWS, Azure)
Cloud Management Sytems
- VMware vCloudDirector, vCenter
- OpenStack, VMware Integrated OpenStack
- Bare metal services with local cloud abstraction
- Amazon Web Services cloud API Integration
- Microsoft Azure cloud API Integration
Third Party Overlay Integration
- VMware NSX, Nokia Nuage, Open Contrail, OpenDaylight (ODL)
OSS/BSS and Orchestration Integration
- Amdocs NCSO, NEC NetCracker, Ciena BluePlanet, Ubiqube, Cisco NSO, Ericsson ECM,
System Requirements:
Versa Director supports both bare metal & VM deployments
| Recomended Sizing Requirements for Versa Director | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qty of Branches | Qty of Tenants | Deployment Option | OS | Processor | Servers | Cores | Storage Capacity | Storage (HDD) type | DRAM | Network ports per CPU |
| Upto 2500 | 500 | Application on Ubuntu (Ubuntu Package) Virtual Machine |
Ubuntu 14.04 | Intel Xeon 64 bit | 2x 1 Socket Servers | 16 cores per socket | 512 GB | SSD Preferred | 64 GB per socket | 2 |
| Upto 1000 | 200 | 16 cores per socket | 512 GB | 64 GB per socket | ||||||
| Upto 500* | 100 | 8 cores per socket | 256 GB | 16 GB per socket | ||||||
* Resource requirements above pertain to per Versa Director node
Documentation:
Download the Versa Director Datasheet (.PDF)