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• 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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• • • • • • If the connection point ip_address_assignment is set to true, set extVirtualLink ip address assignment with configuration data from the user input or a preload file.
            • UI solution (build an UI configuration page and invoke it from VID; it would be an option for the post Dublin release): Impact on VID (open issue)
              • Parse VNFD and extract a list of external virtual links
              • Map the external virtual links to the corresponding connection points, and read ip_address_assignment and number_of_ip_address value
              • Render the external virtual links
              • For each external virtual link, render the ip_address_assignment entry fields based on the number_of_ip_address value
              • User configures the mapping and the UI stores the mapping in the database
              • VNFM Adapter retrieves the mapping from database and fill up the extVirtualLink parameters based the mapping
              • UI Example:

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• • • • • • • Preload configuration solution (it would be an option for the Dublin release)
              • For the VNFD, pre-configure the mapping between the external virtual links and the ip addresses
              • VNFM Adapter retrieves the mapping from preload data and fill up the extVirtualLink parameters based on the mapping

• • • Query VNF Instances

      • HTTP Method Type: GET

      • VNFM Endpoint: /vnf_instances  (for multiple VNFs), /vnf_instances/{vnfInstanceId}  (for single VNF)

      • Request Payload: not applicable

      • Response Header: 200 success

      • Response Body: VnfInstance[] (for multiple VNFs), VnfInstance (for single VNF)

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