Abstract

Due to the limitations of traditional data center (DC) architectures, the concept of infrastructure disaggregation has been proposed. DC resources are separated into multiple blades to be exploited independently. As a result, composable DC (CDC) infrastructures are achieved, enhancing the modularity of resource provisioning. However, disaggregation introduces additional challenges that need to be carefully analyzed. One relates to the potential complexity increase on the orchestration and infrastructure configuration that need to be performed when provisioning resources to support services. This aspect is highly influenced by the distribution of resources at the physical infrastructure. As such, when analyzing the performance of a CDC, it becomes essential to also study the related operational complexity of the resource orchestration and configuration phases. Furthermore, the requirements of several tenant services may impose heterogeneous deployments over the shared physical infrastructure in the form of either disaggregated single-server or multi-server distributions. The associated orchestration/configuration cost is again highly influenced by the data plane architecture of the CDC. With these aspects in mind, in this paper, we provide a methodology for analysis of the complexity of resource orchestration for a service deployment and the associated configuration cost in optical CDCs, considering various service deployment setups. A selected set of CDC architectures found in the literature is employed to quantitatively illustrate how the data plane design and service deployment strategies affect the complexity of infrastructure configuration and resource orchestration.

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