An Analysis of Lightweight Virtualization Technologies for NFV
draft-natarajan-nfvrg-containers-for-nfv-03
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Authors | natarajan.sriram@gmail.com , Ramki Krishnan , Anoop Ghanwani , Dilip Krishnaswamy, Peter Willis , Ashay Chaudhary , Felipe Huici | ||
Last updated | 2017-01-09 (Latest revision 2016-07-08) | ||
Replaces | draft-natarajan-containers-for-nfv | ||
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Abstract
Traditionally, NFV platforms were limited to using standard virtualization technologies (e.g., Xen, KVM, VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.) running guests based on general-purpose operating systems such as Windows, Linux or FreeBSD. More recently, a number of light-weight virtualization technologies including containers, unikernels (specialized VMs) and minimalistic distributions of general-purpose OSes have widened the spectrum of possibilities when constructing an NFV platform. This draft describes the challenges in building such a platform and discusses to what extent these technologies, as well as traditional VMs, are able to address them.
Authors
natarajan.sriram@gmail.com
Ramki Krishnan
Anoop Ghanwani
Dilip Krishnaswamy
Peter Willis
Ashay Chaudhary
Felipe Huici
(Note: The e-mail addresses provided for the authors of this Internet-Draft may no longer be valid.)