A Tenant Network Provisioning Platform with Provisioning Template for Multi-Tenancy Data Centers

Yoji OZAWA; Yoshiko YASUDA; Yosuke HIMURA

doi:10.1587/transcom.E97.B.2658

A Tenant Network Provisioning Platform with Provisioning Template for Multi-Tenancy Data Centers

Yoji OZAWA, Yoshiko YASUDA, Yosuke HIMURA

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Tenant network provisioning in multi-tenancy data centers is time-consuming and error-prone due to the need to configure network devices with hundreds of parameter values (e.g., VLAN ID, IP address) determined according to complicated operational rules. Past works have aimed to automate such operational rule-based provisioning processes by implementing data center-specific provisioning programs, but a crucial problem is the high cost of adapting the programs to suit multiple data centers. In this paper, we aim to solve this problem by enabling to describe the provisioning processing, which has been hard-coded programs in conventional approaches, in easy-to-edit “provisioning template” files. The key component of the provisioning template is the parameter decision rule, which is a declarative abstract representation of parameter dependency and parameter assignment. We design the provisioning template so that it can handle various configuration items while preserving its editability for tenant provisioning. We design and implement the provisioning platform, and the evaluation based on a production data center shows that the provisioning platform can adopt multiple data centers with a single program, leading to less development cost compared to past approaches (i.e., program development for each data center).

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E97-B No.12 pp.2658-2667

Publication Date: 2014/12/01

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Online ISSN: 1745-1345

DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E97.B.2658

Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Technologies and Architectures for Improving Scalability, Reliability, and Robustness for Future Information Networks)

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Yoji OZAWA
  Hitachi Ltd.
Yoshiko YASUDA
  Hitachi Ltd.
Yosuke HIMURA
  Hitachi Ltd.

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network provisioning, multi-tenancy data center, template, network management

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Yoji OZAWA, Yoshiko YASUDA, Yosuke HIMURA, "A Tenant Network Provisioning Platform with Provisioning Template for Multi-Tenancy Data Centers" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications, vol. E97-B, no. 12, pp. 2658-2667, December 2014, doi: 10.1587/transcom.E97.B.2658.
Abstract: Tenant network provisioning in multi-tenancy data centers is time-consuming and error-prone due to the need to configure network devices with hundreds of parameter values (e.g., VLAN ID, IP address) determined according to complicated operational rules. Past works have aimed to automate such operational rule-based provisioning processes by implementing data center-specific provisioning programs, but a crucial problem is the high cost of adapting the programs to suit multiple data centers. In this paper, we aim to solve this problem by enabling to describe the provisioning processing, which has been hard-coded programs in conventional approaches, in easy-to-edit “provisioning template” files. The key component of the provisioning template is the parameter decision rule, which is a declarative abstract representation of parameter dependency and parameter assignment. We design the provisioning template so that it can handle various configuration items while preserving its editability for tenant provisioning. We design and implement the provisioning platform, and the evaluation based on a production data center shows that the provisioning platform can adopt multiple data centers with a single program, leading to less development cost compared to past approaches (i.e., program development for each data center).
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