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 Updated for Honolulu-R8 - Jan-08-2021
Component Status: Pending PTL updates and ArchCom Review

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ONAP VF-C leverages ETSI NFV MANO architecture and information model as a reference, and implements full life cycle management and FCAPS of VNF and NS.
  • support NS and VNF lifecycle management based on ONAP modelling and workflows
  • support integration with multiple VNFMs via drivers, which includes vendors/specific VNFM (S-VNFM) and generic VNFM (G-VNFM)
  • support integration with multiple VNFs via providing an ONAP generic VNFM (G-VNFM)
  • support integration with multiple VIMS via Multi-Cloud, which includes open source and commercial VIMs
  • support microservice architecture and model driven resource orchestration and management

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Interface NameInterface Definition Interface CapabilitiesAPI Spec (Swagger)
VFCE-1Portal/OSS Interface

An interface to allow for NS Lifecycle Management(ETSI SOL-005)The NS/VNF package management function will be removed to modeling etsicatalog in Frankfurt release

https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-vfc-nfvo-lcm/en/latest/platform/APIs/index.html

VFCE-2Service Orchestrator / Policy Interface

An interface to allow Service Orchestrator and Policy request NS Lifecycle Management ( ETSI SOL-005 )

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https://onap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/submodules/vfc/nfvo/lcm.git/docs/platform/APIs/index.html (catalog  APIs will be removed from the page)

VFC consumes the following interfaces:

Interface NameInterface Definition Interface CapabilitiesAPI Spec (Swagger)
SDCE-6
SDC Interface

An interface to receive resource Templates from SDC design catalog

AAIE-1Inventory Service Interface

 An interface to create, update, query, and delete resource information and relationships

AAI REST API Documentation
MSBE-1Micro Service Bus InterfaceAn interface for registration and discovery with the ONAP Micro Service Bus.Microservice Bus API Documentation
etsicatalogAPIE1~4

Modelling Tosca Parser Interfaces and catalog interfaces

An interface for the Tosca Parser from Modelling project to parse the NS and VNF Descriptors.Etsicatalog API Document
MCE-6MultiCloud Interface

An interface for Virtual Network Resource Management and Vim assignment

MultiCloud API Document 
DCAE-1DCAE Interface

An interface to share FM/PM data for VNF FCAPS from the VNFs via the EMS Driver to VES Collector

DCAE API Document
OOFE-1OOF InterfaceAn interface to get the VNF placementOOF API Document


3. Component Description:

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This shows all VF-C components, where each component is a standalone microservice. These microservices include:

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https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-vfc-nfvo-lcm/en/latest/platform/architecture.html

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Note: 

  • Catalog has been migrated to Modeling/etsicatalog in F Release
  • Some components including Resource Manager, Multivim Proxy, EMS Driver and Vendor EMS  have been remove from Guilin Release. If necessary, you can use the version before the Frankfurt version (included)

4. known system limitations

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6. System Deployment Architecture

VFC consists of 15 container microservices, but only following 8 components is in the scope of Honolulu Release:

  • vfc-nslcm - Network Service Lifecycle Management microservice

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  • vnflcm - The

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  • G-VNFM VNF Lifecycle Management microservice
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  • vnfmgr - The

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  • G-VNFM VNF Manager microservice
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  • The G-VNFM resource management microservice
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  • huawei-vnfm-driver - The

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  • Huawei S-VNFM driver
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  • zte-vnfm-driver - The

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  • ZTE S-VNFM driver
  • vfc-db - The VF-C DB service
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  • generic-vnfm-driver - The

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  • G-VNFM driver

The following 7 container microservices discoped from Guilin release. 

  • vfc-workflow - The Workflow Manager microservice
  • vfc-workflow-engine - The activiti workflow engine microservice
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  • juju-vnfm-driver - The

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  • juju G-VNFM driver
  • vfc-nokia-vnfm-driver/vfc-nokia-v2vnfm-driver - The Nokia S-VNFM driver ( current 2 versions )
  • vfc-multivim-proxy - The microservice for interfacing with MultiCloud project
  • vfc-ems-driver - The Element Management System interfaces
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  • resmgr - The Resource Manager microservice

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7. New Release Capabilities

  • To be completed based upon VF-C Dublin release notes

8. References

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