2024-03-27 Meeting notes
Agenda:
Update: 27th March
Risk :
No common lab found to test the components ( FOCOM, NFO (ETSi and K8s), DMS, OAI and Nephio).
No complete setup is still available.
Taiwan Lab-
One O-Cloud server is being helped from Taiwan lab - Bimo would to provide the details.
Got a machine from Taiwan lab, thnks to Bimo, would need another server to test the FOCOM and NFO.
Need another server to deploy the SMO components, can get the lab for a month or 2 - BIMO will help us on this.
OAI lab -
Procurement of the servers is in progress. Sagar - would be updating us on this.
2 servers (Intel 5th gen) are obtained and installation would begin from next week.
West and East coast Labs
Challenging to get the labs at the moment - James
no update
Powder servers would be a temp soln, weather it would be applicable to this integration - Need to investigate this further - Sagar
India Lab
Capgemini - Vishal would get back on this.
Yet to complete the installation, the public IP config has some issues and being sorted out.
Japan Lab
OTIC - Toshi would check this part and update.
No update yet, Kuno san would check with the the OTIC lab on the servers avaialability.
Cosmos Lab
The lab is still not available - Martin
Contingency plan:
We would use the Taiwan Lab for the testing using the VM for SMO as a starting point.
This would be temp soln and would need to be mitigated asap.
Mitigation Plan:
To have a dedicated lab to test the E2E scenario, to help OAI with the needful approvals to accelerate the lab setup.
NFO (DMS K8s) :
the coding of the NFO K8s profile to integrate with Helm client, is completed and testing is in progress
Helm repo as a repo is awaited for the OAI helm charts.
The future step is to have the DMS K8s profile APIs to be realized through the NFO SBI.
NFO (DMS ETSi through Tacker) :
Tacker integration the Ocloud is targeting the FM/PM usecase has started.
Next work is to complete the sequencing and have the FM/PM usecase implemented.
FM data was demoed using the simulators in the plugfest of Nov 2023.
PM data needs a deeped digging on how to be demoed.
FOCOM:
The O-Cloud operator that is developed as a pet project is being refined.
We are currently adapting to the Nephio operator way, we are bridging the operator to work for both OSC and Nephio.
Once the translating is complete we would need an env to test it E2E with a new cluster on the OSC-INF.
Nephio SIG-2 Automation:
We have yet to present it in a future meeting, where we need to present the way Nephio and OSC.
Futuristic Functions in SMO:
Inventory
Currently we are dependent on the IMS data base for all the related info of the clusters.
This needs to be corrected and have the updates directly in the SMO Inventory (closer to IMS).
IMS should update this inventory on any change made to the underlying O-cloud.
Esp NFO currently fetches the DMS id from IMS database.
The current inventory simulator in the OAM component is more of a reference than a realistic inventory.
AAI was one of the candidates, but is found too heavy for the RAN based operations.
SO (as an E2E orchestration piece)
This is being discussed in the ORAN WG1 and would be integrating with both FOCOM and NFO.
SBI of SO would integrate with the current FOCOM and NFO.
Homing and placement decisions would be part of the SO and would drill down to the NFO for the actual work delegation.