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David Snow – Principal Analyst, IP Services Infrastructure ‘Stateless operation’ is the result of taking all the state (or session) data out of an application and relocating it into some form of ‘shared data entity’ to enable easier VNF scaling, failover, upgrade and so on.
- With at least three different approaches emerging, VNF data management may prove as much of a hindrance to NFV rollout as NFV MANO.
In a previous Network Matter blog post, we identified how ‘cloud native’ terminology is now being used to highlight the differences between simply converting existing physical network function-based software into VNFs and creating VNFs ‘designed for the cloud’ from the start. In “Microservices: How ‘Cloud Native’ Are Network Vendors Today?”, we looked at some of the unanswered questions around microservices. This blog takes the cloud native discussion a little further by discussing the issues around ‘stateless operation.’ Continue reading “Three Different Approaches to VNF Data Management Could Spell Trouble Ahead”