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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• SOL001/SOL004 Standard Conformance

  • VNF Package

    • A VNF Package is a compressed file that contains the following:
      • One VNF descriptor (VNFD)
      • One or more Software Image files
      • Zero or more manifest files
      • Other files

    • Package structure is SOL004 2.5.1 compliant.

    • Note: SDC in Dublin has limitations and restrictions on SOL004 support:
      • SDC does not allow custom directories such as Images, Scripts, Licenses and HOT in the root directory.
      • SDC requires MainServiceTemplate.mf and MainServiceTemplate.yaml in the root directory
      • As a result, in Dublin, the vendor VNF package should follow SDC onboarding rules. These SDC restrictions and limitations plan to be removed in the El Alto release. 

  • Cloud Service Archive (CSAR) format

    • It is a packaging construct defined in SOL004 2.5.1, identified by a .csar suffix on the package file. In SOL004, there are two package options; one with TOSCA-Metadata, one without TOSCA-Metadata directories: 

      • The CSAR file does not contain TOSCA-Metadata directory, the descriptor yaml file is in the root directory of the CSAR.

      • The CSAR file contains TOSCA-Metadata directory, the TOSCA meta file in this directory contains the location and name of the descriptor file denoted by Entry-Definitions

    • In ONAP, the second option (with TOSCA-Metadata) is supported.
    • Note: in SDC El Alto, if the VNF package with certificate and/or signature will be packaged as a zip file. The csar format continues to be used for the package without certificate and/or signature. The zip file without certificate and/or signature will be considered as an HEAT-based package.

  • VNFD

    • It is specified by the SOL001 2.5.1.

    • Note 1: that the input and get_input function would be used by a TOSCA orchestrator at run time to access the selected input parameter. If the deployment is not done by a TOSCA orchestrator, the inputs and get_input function may not be needed. The VNFD design should follow the vendor SVNFM orchestration capabilities. 
    • Note 2: in Dublin, SDC will convert SOL001 VNFD to SDC AID DM, but it is not complete. More mapping design discussions are necessary in El Alto.

• VNFM Adapter conforms to the SOL001/SOL004 standards of specification and package management and SOL003 lifecycle operations.

  • Note: in Dublin, SDC does not support SOL004 VNF package yet. SO and SO VNFM Adapter design around SOL004 handling is simplified or deferred to the El Alto release.

• Design Scope for Dublin

• • Epic and Use CasesStories
  • VNFM Adapter Design
  • SOL001/SOL004 Support & Design
  • SO BPMN Infra & VNFM Adapter Run-time Scenario
  • SOL003 API Support
  • SO VNFM Adapter SOL003 API Support Design
  • VNFM Adapter VNF Package Management (Not part of Dublin)
  • SDNC Assignment Management
  • VNFM Adapter Locating SVNFM
  • VNF Life-cycle Granting
  • VNFM Adapter Homing Decision for VNF Granting (TBD)
  • SVNFM Simulator

• Epic

• User Stories

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• • Ericsson Internal Test:
    • A vendor provides their VNF Package and SVNFM for managing the vendor-specific VNF package. 
    • For the SO VNFM Adapter NBI and SOL003-SBI interface validation, Ericsson SVNFM is used for the internal testing
  • Integration Test:
    • For the integration testing, generic/dummy VNF package and VNFM simulator are provided.
    • The generic/dummy VNF package is used to extract SOL001 VNFD parameters for SOL003-based API parameters, such as descriptor_id, flavor, etc. 
    • VNFM simulator is a vendor-neutral SOL003-compliant VNFM, which supports SOL003 responses and message exchanges.
    • vCPE VNF packages would be used for this integration testing. 

• VNFM Adapter Sub-components

  
  

• • SO VNFM Adapter component is a sub component of SO; utilizing docker image and container managed.
    • North Bound Interface (NBI)
      • RESTful APIs that support createVnf (invokes both createVnf and instantiateVnf), grantVnf, TerminateVnf/DeleteVnf
      • Its APIs are SO specific; i.e., not SOL003-based ones; for the NB API details, see the SO VNFM Adapter APIs page.
    • Business Logic layer
      • It is invoked by the NBI and provides business logic for createVnf, instantiateVnf, terminateVnf/DeleteVnf
      • SDNC and A&AI access to collect assignment and VimConnectionInfo
      • Accesses SdcPackageProvider for getting SOL004 package(s) and parameters
      • SdcPackageProvider
        • Supports SOL001/SOL004 package management
        • Provides getPackage, getVnfdId, getFlavorId, getVnfNodeProperty
        • Provides getPackage(s), getVnfd, getArtifactFile for SVNFM
        • Uses SDC Tosca Parser
      • GrantManager
        • Provides requestGrantForInstantiate REST API for SVNFM
        • Invokes OOF for homing decision; HPA support, and/or non-OOF decision
      • SOL003Lcn APIs
        • Supports VnfIdentifierCreationNotification, VnfIdentifierDeletionNotification, VnfLcmOperationOccurrenceNotification
    • SOL003 Communication Layer
      • It is a thin REST client layer, which sends SOL003-compliant requests to SVNFMs and receives responses/notifications from SVNFM.
      • For Grant, it provides the Grant REST endpoint for SVNFM
      • For the SOL003 Southbound API details, see the  SO VNFM Adapter APIs page.

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• • SDC VNF SOL001/SOL004 Support

    • VNFM Adapter depends on the following SDC capabilities:

      • SOL004-based VNF CSAR package onboarding, including storing the original VNF package in SDC output.
      • Manual onboarding of VNF package thru SDC UI.
      • Mapping VNFD (SOL001) to SDC AID DM, including VF-Module deduction based on ScaleAspect + Delta
      • SDC TOSCA Parser for SDC/ONAP Internal model
      • TOSCA Parser for SOL001
      • VNF SDK support of VNF package verification
    • SDC support scope for VNF SOL001/SOL004 is under discussion (Ericsson, Nokia contribution)

• CSAR Import, Store and Retrieve Sequences 

  • SDC stores the original vendor VNF package along with the transformed ONAP-compliant package.
  • SO uses SDC-transformed CSAR packages and VNFM Adapter uses the original Vendor CSAR package.

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• • • In Dublin, SDC does not support SOL004 VNF package fully. 
      • The SDC package structure support is not flexible and requires proprietary convention. 
      • SDC limitations and restrictions have been identified and under discussion for the El Alto release.

• CSAR Import, Store and Retrieve Sequences 

  • SDC stores the original vendor VNF package along with the transformed ONAP-compliant package.
    • Note: this will not supported SDC Dublin.
  • SO uses SDC-transformed CSAR packages and VNFM Adapter uses the original Vendor CSAR package.
    • Note: since SDC Dublin does not support the original vendor CSAR package, SO VNFM Adapter will retrieve VNFDs from SDC.
    • For that reason, the following steps 1, 2, 3 and 4 have been simplified and adjusted.
  • In Dublin, SVNFM needs to onboard its VNF packages.

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  • Design 

Note 2: the step 1 is not important for SO VNFM Adapter in Dublin since the Adapter will get VNFD from SDC directly. 

• 1. SO SDC Controller gets a SOL004 VNF package with an SOL001 VNFD (for El Alto)
     1. SDC could generate two output: one ONAP-compliant CSAR and one original CSAR (maybe the first file includes the second one)
     2. SO will use the ONAP-compliant CSAR
     3. VNFM Adapter will use original CSAR
  2. SO SDC Controller stores a VNF CSAR file reference to the SO Catalog DB (e.g., TOSCA_CSAR database table) - for El Alto
  3. VNFM Adapter gets a CSAR package URL from the SO TOSCA_CSAR database table - for El Alto
  4. VNFM Adapter gets an original CSAR package file from the SDC repository
     1. It is assumed that the Adapter retrieves the original vendor provided CSAR package from SDC repository directory before it passes the package to SVNFM, where SVNFM handles the original CSAR. For that, SDC copy the full original package.
     2. There would be two CSAR packages for a service: one original package, one SDC transformed package.
     3. VNFM Adapter passes the original CSAR package to SVNFM because the SVNFM is outside of ONAP and is designed to handle the vendor CSAR package.

Note: SO future release could consider SOL001/SOL004 internal representation in its Catalog DB, or using the Run-time Catalog DB

• Design

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• VNFM Adapter VNF Flow Design (Run-time Scenarios)

  • The following diagram depicts VNF flow designflows thru SO VNFM Adapter.

• VNFM Adapter Run-time Scenarios

• • The following diagram depicts BPMN Infra and VNFM Adapter Run-time scenarios.

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  1. SO BPMN Service workflows dispatch new resource-level workflows based on VNF request parameters (e.g., type, others).
     1. Once a Service workflow chooses a new workflow path for VNFM Adapter, the subsequent requests for the same VNF will follow the new path.
     2. an association between VNF and VNFM will be made in A&AI.
  2. SO BPMN VNF-level resource workflows handle:
     1. Assign VNF and VF-Module Network to SDNC
     2. Retrieve the VNF and VF-Module Network Assignment from SDNC
     3. Invoke VNFM Adapter Client with required parameters
  3. VNFM Adapter Client manages:
     1. Populate parameter structures based on data from SO workflows
     2. Invoke VNFM Adapter NBI with required parameters
  4. VNFM Adapter gets GenericVNF from A&AI
  5. VNFM Adapter locates the corresponding VNF and VNFM registration info form A&AI (ESR). Two methods are suggested
     1. Current one: based on VNF NF Type and VNFM Type in A&AI
     2. Could use VNFD vnfm_info:type, VNFM registration values: VNFM type, Cloud Region, vendor - logic is being designed
  6. VNFM Adapter gets VimConnectionInfo from A&AI
     1. Queries A&AI based on the cloud region and tenant id
     2. Builds the VimConnectionInfo based on the type, service-url, user-name, password, cloud-domain, etc.
  7. VNFM Adapter uses network assignment (e.g., IP Address) from SO (thru SDNC) and builds the extVirtualLinks and other parameters.

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• • • SOL001 concept of Aspect+ScalingDelta combination is one to one with the ONAP concept of VF Module.
    • SOL001 concept of VDU is one to one with the ONAP concept of A&AI vServer
    • SOL001 concept of a connection point associated with a VDU corresponds to the ONAP concept of the same name, as does the understanding of the meaning of “internal” versus “external” connection point.
    • ONAP-compliant SOL001 VNF Vendors will be obliged to name their HEAT files using a naming convention that encodes the SOL001 Aspect+ScalingDelta names
    • ONAP-compliant SOL001 VNF Vendors will be obliged to name their SOL001 Aspect+ScalingDelta parameters using a naming convention that readily maps to the corresponding HEAT properties.  
    • In addition, if AT&T has already deployed such a vendor’s VNF into its network, the HEAT naming will remain invariant, and (at least) the (AT&T version of that) SOL001 be written to match it.
  • What to do
    • ONAP will be extended to incorporate the constructs of Aspect and Scaling Level.  This includes SDC’s, SOs, and A&AI’s modeling of these constructs and A&AI's ability to capture and SO’s ability to set/update the "current scaling level" of a VNF for a given Aspect. 
    • If ETSI in their SOL001 VNFD had defined a "ScalingDelta" in a straightforward manner, i.e., in terms of the VNFCs that comprise it, then it would be very easy to extract VF Module information from the VNFD.  (I would like to see ETSI define "ScalingDelta" in this manner, as opposed to the current way they do so. )  However, given that they did not, ONAP SDC would need to be extended to derive the VF Module “structure” from the SOL001 document through the algorithm below.  “Structure” in this case includes the VDU topology, connection points and associated parameters.  This algorithm will:
    • Determine the set of Aspects and corresponding VDUs and associated ScalingDeltas (step_deltas) from the SOL001.
    • Determine the set of ScalingLevels associated with each Aspect and the ScalingDeltas associated with each.
    • Translate the VDU-centric representation of ScalingDeltas (step_deltas) as per SOL001 to come up with a ScalingDelta-centric representation that captures the number and type of VDUs associated with that ScalingDelta across the various VDU types.
    • Create a VF Module object that corresponds to each ScalingDelta-centric representation of a ScalingDelta calculated above.
    • Fill in the details of the VF Module object based on the SOL001 data to represent the VDU connection points, associated Networks (internal or external), and associated Parameters.
    • Determine if there is an the artifact in the SOL004 package that is a HOT YAML whose file name corresponds (through a VNF vendor obligatory naming convention) to the Aspect+ScalingDelta from which this VF Module object was derived.  If so, associate that HOT file with the VF Module.
    • Name the VF Module based on a naming convention to capture the Aspect+ScalingDelta names
    • Determine and capture the mapping from each Aspect + ScalingLevel model for the VNF to the corresponding VF Module.
    • Given a desired state Aspect+ScalingLevel, will be able to calculate (from the SDC distributed mapping of Aspect+ScalingLevel to VF Module along with the current Scaling Level for this Aspect as per A&AI) the (ordered set of) VF Module(s) needed to take that VNF from the “current scaling level” to the desired level for that Aspect.
    • Note:  As an aside, SDC enhancements are being discussed. It is not clear if the SDC changes will be available in the Dublin time frame. some “stubbing off” SDC with a simulator could be suggested to at least prove in the run-time aspects of the solution.

• SO BPMN VNF Workflow

  • A new New VNF-level Building Block workflow workflows will be created.

  • Create and Instantiate VNF workflow (EtsiVnfInstantiateBB.bpmn)

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• • Delete VNF workflow (EtsiVNFDeleteBB.bpmn)

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• SO BPMN VF-Module Workflow (not for Dublin)

  • For ETSI-based VNF package, VF-Module level workflows will NOT be used. 

  • SO VNFM Adapter will interface with SVNFM at the VNF level.

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• • Even though SO Building Blocks are used for the SO VNFM Adapter, assignment data will be pre-loaded into SDNC for the Dublin release.
  • In El Alto release, preload data could be replaced with SO request data (TBD)
  • Possible preload data structure. The additionalParams and extVirtualLinks data will be preloaded to SDNC, and the SO VNFM Adapter will retrieve the data from SDNC.

    • {  
         "additionalParams ":"{\"param_1\": \"value_1\",\"param_2\": \"value_2\",\"param_3\": \"value_3\"}",
         "extVirtualLinks":"[{\"id\": \"vlaue\",\"resourceId\": \"value\",\"extCps\": [{\"cpdId\": \"cpdId_value\",\"fixedAddresses\": [{\"fixedAddresses\": {\"macAddress\": [\"macAddress_1\", \"macAddress_2\"]}}]}]}]"
      }\", \"macAddress_2\"]}}]}]}]"
      }

• VNFM Simulator

SVNFM is provided by its vendor, which is vendor-specific by nature. For ONAP integration testing for SO VNFM Adapter, a generic VNFM Simulator is needed. This generic VNFM Simulator will support SOL003-compliant interfaces. 

In Dublin, the Simulator will support Crate, Instantiate, Terminate and Delete VNF operations and Grant request/response handling. Simulated mock-up request and response data will be exchanged.

• VNFM Adapter Locating SVNFM

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• • SOL003 Interfaces between VNFM Adapter (Client) and SVNFM (Provider)

           Note: for the interface details, see the VNFM Adapter APIs, 

SO VNFM Adapter APIs

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• • • Create VNF

      • HTTP Method Type: POST

      • VNFM Endpoint: /vnf_instances/

      • Request Payload: CreateVnfRequest

      • Response Header: 201 success

      • Response Body: VnfInstance

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• • • • • Population of User Inputs for SOL003 Instantiation. Two options are discussed and the Option #1 is chosen for Dublin for simplicity. It will be revisited for the El Alto release. 
          • Option #1. 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
          • Option #2: model-driven user data population from UI (which is attached to VID) - TBD deferred to the next release.
            • The external virtual links user input is shown for illustration purposes. 
            • VNFD does not define external virtual links, but it lists the external virtual links as requirements for the VNF.
              • If the connection point ip_address_assignment is set to false, no extVirtualLinks ip address assignment is necessary.
              • In this case, VIM will assign IP addresses dynamically.
              • This could be an option for the Dublin release for simplifying the solution.

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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:

• • • VNFM and GenericVNF relationship

• • • • Trace which VNFM instance managed which VNF instance, the following rule will be added to A&AI DB Edge (DbEdgeRules_esr_v15.json, DbEdgeRules_esr_v16.json).

        • {
          "from": "generic-vnf",
          "to": "esr-vnfm",
          "label": "tosca.relationships.DependsOn",
          "direction": "OUT",
          "multiplicity": "MANY2ONE",
          "contains-other-v": "NONE",
          "delete-other-v": "NONE",
          "prevent-delete": "NONE",
          "default": "true",
          "description":""
          }

      • SO VNFM Adapter will update the relationship between generic-vnf and esr-vnfm based on the rule.

• • • Query VNF Instances (deferred to El Alto)

      • 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) 

• • • • Design
        • If the VNFM Adapter intends to query all VNF instances, it sends a GET request to the "VNF instances" resource
        • The VNFM returns a "200 OK" response to the VNFM Adapter, and includes zero or more data structures of type "VnfInstance" in the payload body
        • If the VNFM Adapter intends to read information about a particular VNF instance, it sends a GET request to the "Individual VNF instance" resource, addressed by the appropriate VNF instance identifier in its resource URI
        • The VNFM returns a "200 OK" response to the VNFM Adapter, and includes one data structure of type "VnfInstance" in the payload body

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1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. VNFM sends a POST request to the Grant resource with a “GrantRequest” in the body
               2. VNFM Adapter with SO returns to VNFM a “202 Accepted” response with an empty body, and a “Location” header indicates a callback URL
               3. VNFM Adapter with SO makes the granting decision
               4. VNFM keeps trying to obtain the grant by sending a GET request to VNFM Adapter until a “200 OK” response with a “grant” data in the body
               5. VNFM Adapter finishes the granting process and returns a “200 OK” response with a “Grant” data in the body

• • • • VNFM Adapter

        Homing Decision for

        VNF Granting

• • • • • In Dublin, the homing data will be collected during the service decomposition procedures in SO workflows. The SO VNFM Adapter will receive the homing data from the SO workflows. 
        • Some models do not have homing models and policies; i.e., use of OOF is optional. In that case, the SO VNFM Adapter will make a gran decision based on VIM registration, cloud region. 
        • The following concept is based on the current VFC granting mechanism. In the Dublin, the mechanism is not used.

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      1. 1. 1. 1. 1. VNFM Adapter sends out homing requests to OOF (OSDF) containing resource info
                  2. OOF (OSDF) pulls all the related homing constraints from Policy
                  3. OOF (HAS) checks AAI database to pull region (flavor) information
                  4. OOF (HAS) communicates with Multi-Cloud to check cloud capacity (vims which fulfill the requirements)
                  5. OOF (OSDF) returns homing allocation solution to VNFM Adapter

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• • • VNF Application Configuration thru VNFM Adapter and VNFM is under discussion  (out of scope from Dublin)

      • Architecture subcommittee is defining orchestration scenarios for application configuration

    • Better mechanism for VNFM Adapter to locate VNFMs (two methods are suggested)

      • How do we identify which VNFM to use?

    • Modelling for VNF and VF Modules; mapping between VF Modules and VNF (out of scope from Dublin)

      • Assigning Network resources to SDNC; do we use preload data?

    • Continue to support existing non-ETSI SO workflows along with ETSI-based workflows

    • SOL001/SOL004 SO Representation (for Dublin, the second option was chosen)

      • Option #1: Enhance SO Catalog Database? 

        • VNF_Package (vnfdid, vnfm_info, version, vnf_provider, product, vendor, etc.)

        • VNF_Package_Artifact (child database for VNF_Package, VNFD_URL, SoftwareImage_URL, Additional Files etc)

      • Option #2: Store minimum reference in TOSCA_CSAR database table? This was chosen for Dublin

    • MultiCloud use (not for Dublin)

    • SO VNFM Adapter High Availability and error handling are not fully covered.