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| Attribute Name | Type | Multiplicity | Description | Applied Stereotypes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vnfdId | Identifier | 1 | Identifier of this VNFD information element. This attribute shall be globally unique. NOTE: The VNFD Identifier shall be used as the unique identifier of the VNF Package that contains this VNFD. Any modification of the content of the VNFD or the VNF Package shall result in a new VNFD Identifier. | support: MANDATORY |
| vnfProvider | String | 1 | Provider of the VNF and of the VNFD. | support: MANDATORY |
| vnfProductName | String | 1 | Name to identify the VNF Product. Invariant for the VNF Product lifetime. | support: MANDATORY |
| vnfSoftwareVersion | String | 1 | Software version of the VNF. This is changed when there is any change to the software that is included in the VNF Package. | support: MANDATORY |
| vnfdVersion | String | 1 | Identifies the version of the VNFD. | support: MANDATORY |
| vnfProductInfoName | String | 0..1 | Human readable name for the VNF Product. Can change during the VNF Product lifetime. | support: MANDATORY |
| vnfProductInfoDescription | String | 0..1 | Human readable description of the VNF Product. Can change during the VNF Product lifetime. | support: MANDATORY |
| vnfmInfo | String | 0..N | Identifies VNFM(s) compatible with the VNF described in this version of the VNFD. | support: MANDATORY valueRange: use the name of micro-service of the vnfm drive. For vendor specific VNFM, the value composes of "vendorname" and "vnfmdriver", e.g. "mycompanyvnfmdriver"; for generic VNFM, the value is "gvnfmdriver". |
| localizationLanguage | String | 0..N | Information about localization languages of the VNF (includes e.g. strings in the VNFD). NOTE: This allows to provide one or more localization languages to support selecting a specific localization language at VNF instantiation time. | support: MANDATORY valueRange: refer to ISO936 https://www.iso.org/iso-639-language-codes.html |
| defaultLocalizationLanguage | String | 0..1 | Default localization language that is instantiated if no information about selected localization language is available. | support: MANDATORY valueRange: refer to ISO936 https://www.iso.org/iso-639-language-codes.html condition: Shall be present if "localizationLanguage" is present and shall be absent otherwise. |
| vdu | VDU/VDUDesc | 1..N | Virtualisation Deployment Unit. | support: MANDATORY |
| virtualComputeDesc | VirtualComputeDesc | 1..N | Defines descriptors of virtual compute resources to be used by the VNF. | support: MANDATORY |
| virtualStorageDesc | VirtualStorageDesc | 0..N | Defines descriptors of virtual storage resources to be used by the VNF. | support: MANDATORY |
| intVirtualLinkDesc | VirtualLinkDesc/VnfVirtualLinkDesc | 0..N | Represents the type of network connectivity mandated by the VNF provider between two or more CPs which includes at least one internal CP. | support: MANDATORY |
| vnfReservedCpd | VduCpd | 10..N | Reserved IP Address for VNF which is not bounded to any specific VNFC, but assigned manually from outside and potentially shared as a floating IP among VNFCs. | support: MANDATORY |
| vnfExtCpd | VnfExtCpd/VNFExtCPDesc | 1..N | Describes external interface(s) exposed by this VNF enabling connection with a VL. | support: MANDATORY |
| deploymentFlavour | VnfDf/VNFDeploymentFlavor | 1..N | Describes specific DF(s) of a VNF with specific requirements for capacity and performance. | support: MANDATORY |
| configurableProperties | VnfConfigurableProperties | 0..1 | Describes the configurable properties of the VNF (e.g. related to auto scaling and auto healing). | support: MANDATORY |
| modifiableAttributes | VnfInfoModifiableAttributes | 0..1 | Describes the modifiable attributes of the VNF. Editor's note: need check the usage of this attribute | support: MANDATORY |
| lifeCycleManagementScript | LifeCycleManagementScript/LifeCycleManagementOperationDesc | 0..N | Includes a list of events and corresponding management scripts performed for the VNF. | support: MANDATORY |
| elementGroup | VnfdElementGroup | 0..N | Describes the associated elements of a VNFD for a certain purpose during VNF lifecycle management. | support: MANDATORY |
| vnfIndicator | VnfIndicator | 0..N | Declares the VNF indicators that are supported by this VNF. | support: MANDATORY |
| logo | String | 0..1 | File path of the vendor specified logo. | support: MANDATORY |
| guide | String | 0..1 | UUID of the vendor guide/documentation which is attached to VNF and can be downloaded from the model. | support: MANDATORY |
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| Attribute Name | Type | Multiplicity | Description | Applied Stereotypes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vduId | Identifier | 1 | Unique identifier of this Vdu in VNFD. | support: MANDATORY |
| name | String | 1 | Human readable name of the Vdu. | support: MANDATORY |
| description | String | 1 | Human readable description of the Vdu. | support: MANDATORY |
| vduCpd | VduCpd/VDUCPDesc | 1..N | Describes network connectivity between a VNFC instance (based on this Vdu) and an Virtual Link (VL). | support: MANDATORY |
| virtualComputeDesc | Identifier (reference to VirtualComputeDesc) | 1 | Describes CPU, Memory and acceleration requirements of the Virtualisation Container realising this Vdu. | support: MANDATORY |
| virtualStorageDesc | Identifier (reference to VirtualStorageDesc) | 0..N | Describes storage requirements for a VirtualStorage instance attached to the virtualisation container created from virtualComputeDesc defined for this Vdu. | support: MANDATORY |
| bootOrder | KeyValuePair/NameValuePair | 0..N | Boot order of valid boot devices. NOTE: If no boot order is defined the default boot order defined in the VIM or NFVI shall be used. | support: MANDATORY valueRange: "key/name" indicates the the boot index (lowest index defines highest boot priority). "value" references a descriptor from which a valid boot device is created e.g. VirtualStorageDesc from which a VirtualStorage instance is created. |
| swImageDesc | SwImageDesc | 0..1 Editor's note: the scenario of using "0" needs to be clarified. | Describes the software image which is directly loaded on the virtualisation container realising this Vdu. NOTE: More software images can be attached to the virtualisation container using VirtualStorage resources. | support: MANDATORY |
| monitoringParameter | MonitoringParameter | 0..N | Defines the virtualised resources monitoring parameters on VDU level. | support: MANDATORY |
| configurableProperties | VnfcConfigurableProperties | 1 | Describes the configurable properties of all VNFC instances based on this VDU. | support: MANDATORY |
Class: SwImageDesc
| Attribute Name | Type | Multiplicity | Description | Applied Stereotypes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| id | Identifier | 1 | The identifier of this software image. | support: MANDATORY |
| name | String | 1 | The name of this software image. | support: MANDATORY |
| version | String | 1 | The version of this software image. | support: MANDATORY |
| checksum | String | 1 | The checksum of the software image file. | support: MANDATORY |
| containerFormat | String | 1 | The container format describes the container file format in which software image is provided. | support: MANDATORY |
| diskFormat | String | 1 | The disk format of a software image is the format of the underlying disk image. | support: MANDATORY |
| minDisk | Number (recommended DM type: Scalar-Unit-Size) | 1 | The minimal disk size requirement for this software image. The value of the "size of storage" attribute of the VirtualStorageDesc referencing this SwImageDesc shall not be smaller than the value of minDisk. | support: MANDATORY |
| minRam | Number (recommended DM type: Scalar-Unit-Size) | 0..1 | The minimal RAM requirement for this software image. The value of the "size" attribute of VirtualMemoryData of the Vdu referencing this SwImageDesc shall not be smaller than the value of minRam. | support: MANDATORY |
| size | Number (recommended DM type: Scalar-Unit-Size) | 1 | The size of this software image. | support: MANDATORY |
swImage | Identifier (Reference to a SwImage) | 1 | This is a reference to the actual software image. The reference can be relative to the root of the VNF Package or can be a URL. | support: MANDATORY |
| operatingSystem | String | 0..1 | Identifies the operating system used in the software image. This attribute may also identify if a 32 bit or 64 bit software image is used. | support: MANDATORY |
| supportedVirtualisationEnvironment | String | 0..N | Identifies the virtualisation environments (e.g. hypervisor) compatible with this software image. | support: MANDATORY |
Class: VirtualComputeDesc
| Attribute Name | Type | Multiplicity | Description | Applied Stereotypes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| virtualComputeDescId | Identifier | 1 | Unique identifier of this VirtualComputeDesc in the VNFD. | support: MANDATORY |
| logicalNode | LogicalNodeData/LogicialNodeDesc | 1..N | The logical Node requirements. | support: MANDATORY |
| requestAdditionalCapabilities | RequestedAdditionalCapabilityData | 0..N | Specifies requirements for additional capabilities. These may be for a range of purposes. One example is acceleration related capabilities. | support: MANDATORY |
| computeRequirements | KeyValuePair/NameValuePair | 0..N | Specifies compute requirements. | support: MANDATORY |
| virtualMemory | VirtualMemoryData/VirtualMemoryDesc | 1 | The virtual memory of the virtualised compute. | support: MANDATORY |
| virtualCpu | VirtualCpuData/VirtualCPUDesc | 1 | The virtual CPU(s) of the virtualised compute. | support: MANDATORY |
Class: VirtualCpuData/VirtualCPUDesc
| Attribute Name | Type | Multiplicity | Description | Applied Stereotypes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpuArchitecture | String | 0..1 | CPU architecture type. Examples are x86, ARM. The cardinality can be 0 during the allocation request, if no particular CPU architecture type is requested. | support: MANDATORY |
| numVirtualCpu | Integer | 1 | Number of virtual CPUs. | support: MANDATORY |
| virtualCpuClock | Number(recommended DM type: Scalar-Unit-Freq) | 0..1 | Minimum virtual CPU clock rate (e.g. in MHz). The cardinality can be 0 during the allocation request, if no particular value is requested. | support: MANDATORY |
| virtualCpuOversubscriptionPolicy | String | 0..1 | The CPU core oversubscription policy e.g. the relation of virtual CPU cores to physical CPU cores/threads. The cardinality can be 0 during the allocation request, if no particular value is requested. | support: MANDATORY |
| vduCpuRequirements | KeyValuePair/NameValuePair | 0..N | Array of key-value pair requirements on the Compute (CPU) for the VDU. | support: MANDATORY |
| virtualCpuPinning | VirtualCpuPinningData | 0..1 | The virtual CPU pinning configuration for the virtualised compute resource. | support: MANDATORY editor's note: need to check whether can be optional |
Class: VirtualMemoryData/VirtualMemoryDesc
| Attribute Name | Type | Multiplicity | Description | Applied Stereotypes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| virtualMemSize | Number (recommended DM type: Scalar-Unit-Size) | 1 | Amount of virtual Memory (e.g. in MB). | support: MANDATORY |
| virtualMemOversubscriptionPolicy | String | 0..1 | The memory core oversubscription policy in terms of virtual memory to physical memory on the platform. The cardinality can be 0 during the allocation request, if no particular value is requested. | support: MANDATORY |
| vduMemRequirements | KeyValuePair/NameValuePair | 0..N | Array of key-value pair requirements on the memory for the VDU. | support: MANDATORY |
| numaEnabled | Boolean | 0..1 | It specifies the memory allocation to be cognisant of the relevant process/core allocation. The cardinality can be 0 during the allocation request, if no particular value is requested. | support: MANDATORY |
Class: VirtualStorageDesc
| Attribute Name | Type | Multiplicity | Description | Applied Stereotypes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
id | Identifier | 1 | Unique identifier of this VirtualStorageDesc in the VNFD. | support: MANDATORY |
typeOfStorage | String | 1 | Type of virtualised storage resource | support: MANDATORY |
sizeOfStorage | Number (recommended DM type: Scalar-Unit-Size) | 1 | Size of virtualised storage resource | support: MANDATORY |
vduStorageRequirements | KeyValuePair/NameValuePair | 0..N | An array of key-value pairs that articulate the storage deployment requirements. | support: MANDATORY |
rdmaEnabled | Boolean | 0..1 | Indicate if the storage support RDMA. | support: MANDATORY |
swImageDesc | Identifier (Reference to SwImageDesc) | 0..1 | Software image to be loaded on the VirtualStorage resource created based on this VirtualStorageDesc. | support: MANDATORY |
Class: LogicalNodeData/LogicalNodeDesc
| Attribute Name | Type | Multiplicity | Description | Applied Stereotypes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
logicalNodeRequirements | KeyValuePair/NameValuePair | 0..N | The logical node-level compute, memory and I/O requirements. An array of key-value pairs that articulate the deployment requirements. This could include the number of CPU cores on this logical node, a memory configuration specific to a logical node (e.g. such as available in the Linux kernel via the libnuma library) or a requirement related to the association of an I/O device with the logical node. | support: MANDATORY |