Content Comparison

• Resource commitment:

  • Ericsson: primary contact: Byung-Woo Jun

• Usecase Lead:

  • Ericsson: Byung-Woo Jun

• TSC Contact:

  • Ericsson: Stephen terrill

• Participating ONAP Projects:

  • Implementation: SO, AAI, SDC (not in Dublin)

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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, terminate/, delete, LCN subscription and LCN

      Support of Delete VNF is a stretch goal in Dublin

  • Enhance SO BPMN workflows & recipes

    • VNF-level Building Block workflows, leveraging VNFM Adapter 

    • Passing VNF LCM requests to VNFM using VNFM Adapter

• Note: the followings are candidates for the El Alto release.

  • Provide VNF package management for VNFM

  • Policy-based VNF scaling thru VNFM Adapter

  • Support of remaining SOL003 APIs
  • VNF Package handling (Download & Parse VNF Package)
    • Get package files from the SDC repository thru SO
    • Provide VNF package(s), VNFDs and Artifacts to VNFM
    • SO Catalog DB enhancement for SOL001/SOL004 is identified as future release work

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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
    • Grant request to SO VNFM Adapter, as a client
    • Life cycle notification
    • Terminate/Delete
  • 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
  • Due to SDC SOL004 package support issues in Dublin, manual onboarding VNF Packages are needed for SVNFM. 
  • 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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