SO-ETSI-VNFM Adapter for Dublin Presentation slide deck at ONAP Paris 2019
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- Vendor SVNFM must be "SOL003-compliant"
- Providing SOL003 APIs for VNFM LCM, based on ETSI VNFLifecycleManagement
- Use https://forge.etsi.org/gitlab/nfv/SOL002-SOL003/2.5.1/master/src/SOL003/VNFLifecycleManagement swagger for providing services
- Create
- Instantiate
- Query
- Grant request to SO VNFM Adapter, as a client
- Life cycle notification
- Registration itself to ONAP (thru A&AI ESR) - Name, Type, Vendor, Version, URL, VIM, Username and Password
- Providing Subscription Services for Life-cycle Management Notifications
- Support of the "Direct Mode" of Resource Management only
- After receiving a grant permission, the VNFM sends requests for resources directly to VIM
- Invoking MultiCloud from VNFM is under discussion, but not for Dublin
- The "Indirect Mode" of Resource Management is being discussed, but not for Dublin
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VNFM Adapter Sub-components
- SO VNFM Adapter component (a sub component of SO; docker image and container manged)
- North Bound Interface (NBI)
- RESTful APIs that support createVnf, instantiateVnf, queryVnf, grantVnf
- Its APIs are SO specific; i.e., not SOL003-based ones
- Business Logic layer
- It is invoked by the NBI and provides business logic for createVnf, instantiateVnf, queryVnf
- SDNC and A&AI access to collect assignment and VimConnectionInfo
- Accesses SdcPackageProvider for getting SOL003 package(s) and parameters
- SdcPackageProvider
- Supports SOL001/SOL004 package management
- Provides getPackage, getVnfdId, getFlavorId, getVnfNodeProperty
- Provides getPackage(s), getVnfd, getArtifactFile for SVNFM
- Uses SDC Tosca Parser
- GrantManager
- Provides requestGrantForInstantiate REST API for SVNFM
- Invokes OOF for homing decision; HPA support, and/or non-OOF decision
- SOL003Lcn APIs
- Supports VnfIdentifierCreationNotification, VnfIdentifierDeletionNotification, VnfLcmOperationOccurrenceNotification
- SOL003 Communication Layer
- It is a thin REST client layer, which sends SOL003-compliant requests to SVNFMs and receives responses/notifications from SVNFM.
- For Grant, it provides the Grant REST endpoint for SVNFMs.
SOL001/SOL004 Support & Design
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