HPE Telco Blueprint logical architecture

Customized for specific NFV use cases, HPE Telco Blueprints are validated reference configurations based on HPE infrastructure platforms:

HPE ProLiant
HPE Edgeline
HPE Synergy

HPE Telco Blueprints are offered with HPE Telco SDI toolset and documentation to simplify the installation and building of the NFV infrastructure stack. To help bring up a customized and optimized HPE Telco environment for your client, you have the flexibility to pick and select the following:

Control plane
Compute plane
Storage plane
Hyper Converged Infrastructure plane
Network plane
- Switches configured as part of the blueprint
  - Management switches
  - Data switches
- Additional switch configurations that may be required on the following switches for Telco Blueprint connectivity
  - Customer infrastructure switch
  - Border Leaf switches (Customer end - Virtual Tunnel End Point)
  - Spine switches (non-VTEP)
- NICs:
  - Management NIC
  - Data NIC
- Network configuration:
  - VLAN (Virtual local area network)
  - VxLAN (Virtual extensible local area network)

To choose optimal hardware and networking components for your business environment, see Deployment options recommendations.

For specific hardware validated for control plane (Undercloud host and VIM Overcloud controller), compute, storage, hyper converged infrastructure, and switches (management and data), see HPE Telco Blueprint hardware components.

Following is a logical representation of the HPE Telco Blueprint architecture with hardware and software components enclosed by the red dashed line.