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• SO-ETSI-VNFM Adapter for Dublin Presentation slide deck at ONAP Paris 2019

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• • Leverage ETSI standards for VNF LCM in SO

  • Build SO VNFM Adapter

    • Use SOL003 APIs (2.5.1) for VNF LCM

    • Support operations such as create, instantiate, grant, query, terminate, LCN subscription and LCN

    • Support of Delete VNF is a stretch goal in Dublin

  • Enhance SO BPMN workflows & recipes

    • VNF-level and VF-Module workflows, leveraging VNFM Adapter 

    • Passing VNF LCM requests to VNFM using VNFM Adapter

  • Policy based VNF scale out thru VNFM Adapter (Stretch Goal)

    • VNFM Adapter interfaces for VES event

    • Policy Framework for scaling decisions

    • SO workflows for VNF Scale out

  • Provide VNF package management for VNFM (Stretch Goal; under investigation)

  • VNF-level and VF Module-level Assignment modeling in SDNC and A&AI (open issue)

  • VNF Application Configuration thru VNFM Adapter and VNFM (open issue & not for Dublin)

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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
    • Terminate
  • 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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