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In its Beijing Release, ONAP will support the ability to manually scale out VNF Components. Below is the Sequence Diagram for how Manual Scale Out will work in ONAP.
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Description of Workflow
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- VNFs must support a Healthcheck as described in: The Management Section of the ONAP VNF Guidelines.
- R-31809 is the requirement dictating the need for VNF Healthchecks
- The Ansible Healthcheck Playbook description may be found in The Ansible Standards and Capabilities Section
- VNF Heat Templates must be built according the VNF Modularity Rules
- The VF_Module to be scaled must be built according the VNF Modularity Rules for Incremental Modules
- Configuration of the VNF must be done via NETCONF, Chef, or Ansible as described in Configuration Management