2 Deployment Environment

This section describes the infrastructure that was used for benchmarking, Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Binding Support Function (BSF) deployed in cloud native platform.

2.1 Deployed Components

This section provides details about the deployed components.

Deployment Platform

Oracle Communications Cloud Native Environment (CNE) 23.3.5 and BareMetal can be used for performing benchmark tests.

Table 2-1 Observability Services

Service Name Version
Oracle Opensearch 2.3.0
Fluentd 1.16
Oracle Opensearch Dashboard 2.3.0
Prometheus 2.44.0
Grafana 9.5.3
Jaeger 1.45.0
The following binding schema has been used for this test scenario:
CREATE TABLE `pcf_binding` (
  `binding_id` binary(16) NOT NULL,
  `ipv4_addr` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,
  `ip_domain` varchar(128) DEFAULT NULL,
  `ipv6_prefix` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,
  `mac_addr_48` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,
  `dnn` varchar(128) DEFAULT NULL,
  `supi` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,
  `gpsi` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,
  `snssai_sd` varchar(64) DEFAULT NULL,
  `snssai_sst` int DEFAULT NULL,
  `created_date_time` datetime(6) NOT NULL,
  `json_content` longblob NOT NULL,
  `last_access_timestamp` bigint unsigned DEFAULT NULL,
  `site_id` varchar(128) DEFAULT NULL,
  `audit_attempts` bigint unsigned DEFAULT NULL,
  `last_audited_date_time` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`binding_id`),
  KEY `idx_audit_datetime` (`last_audited_date_time`),
  KEY `idx_created_date_time` (`created_date_time`),
  KEY `idx_ipv4Addr` (`ipv4_addr`,`created_date_time`),
  KEY `idx_ipv6Prefix` (`ipv6_prefix`,`created_date_time`),
  KEY `idx_macAddr48` (`mac_addr_48`,`created_date_time`),
  KEY `idx_supi` (`supi`,`created_date_time`),
  KEY `idx_gpsi` (`gpsi`,`created_date_time`)
) ENGINE=ndbcluster DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb3;

Cloud Native Orchestrator

Kubernetes 1.26.x is used to manage application pods across the cluster.

cnDBTier

cnDBTier 25.1.100 is used for performing benchmark tests.

BSF Infrastructure Details

BSF infrastructure used for Benchmarking is described in this section.

Table 2-2 Hardware Details

Hardware Details
Environment BareMetal
Server ORACLE SERVER X9-2
Model Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8358
Clock Speed 2.60 GHz
Total Cores 64
Memory Size 64 GB
Type DIMM DDR4 Synchronous Registered (Buffered) 3200 MHz (0.3 ns)
Installed DIMMs 16
Maximum DIMMs 32
Installed Memory 1024 GB

Table 2-3 Software Details

Applications Version
BSF 25.1.100
ASM 1.14.6
cnDBTier 25.1.100
CNE 23.3.5

For more information about BSF Installation details, see Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core, Binding Support Function Installation, Upgrade, and Fault Recovery Guide.