Page Status: Copied from Guilin-R7 - Aug-24-2020
Component Status: Pending PTL updates and ArchCom Review
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1. High Level Component Definition and Architectural Relationships
- 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
2. VFC-C API definitions
VFC provides the following interfaces:
| Interface Name | Interface Definition | Interface Capabilities | API Spec (Swagger) |
|---|---|---|---|
| VFCE-1 | Portal/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 | |
| VFCE-2 | Service Orchestrator / Policy Interface | An interface to allow Service Orchestrator and Policy request NS Lifecycle Management ( ETSI SOL-005 ) | |
The current VFC API documents can be found at:
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 Name | Interface Definition | Interface Capabilities | API Spec (Swagger) |
|---|---|---|---|
| SDCE-6 | SDC Interface | An interface to receive resource Templates from SDC design catalog | |
| AAIE-1 | Inventory Service Interface | An interface to create, update, query, and delete resource information and relationships | |
| MSBE-1 | Micro Service Bus Interface | An interface for registration and discovery with the ONAP Micro Service Bus. | |
| 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. | |
| MCE-6 | MultiCloud Interface | An interface for Virtual Network Resource Management and Vim assignment | |
| DCAE-1 | DCAE Interface | An interface to share FM/PM data for VNF FCAPS from the VNFs via the EMS Driver to VES Collector | |
| OOFE-1 | OOF Interface | An interface to get the VNF placement |
3. Component Description:
This shows all VF-C components, where each component is a standalone microservice. These microservices include:
- Network Service Lifecycle Manager (nslcm ) which is the core component of VF-C NFVO, mainly responsible for network service management.
Catalog is used for package management, including NS/VNF/PNF package management.- Resource Manager is used for the management of the instances that are created by VF-C and is also responsible for resource granting operations.
- Specific Virtualised Network Function Manager (S-VNFM) Driver. VF-C currently has three vendor’s Specific VNFM drivera, including Nokia, Huawei, ZTE drivers, where each driver is a microservice.
- Generic Virtualised Network Function Manager (G-VNFM) Drivers. VF-C can now have two generic VNFM drivers, the gvnfm driver and juju vnfm driver.
- Workflow is comprised of 2 microservices, the vfc-workflow that provides the workflow management services and the vfc-workflow-engine which is the activiti workflow engine microservice.
- Multivim-proxy, provide interfaces to forward virtual resource requests to MultiCloud for resource checking ( Vim Assignment ) and Network resource creation.
- EMS Driver is used for VNF performance and alarm data collection and report to DCAE via the VES collector.
- GVNFM provides the ONAP Generic Virtualised Network Function Manager capabilities. GVNFM is composed of three microservices: vfc-vnflcm, vfc-vnfmgr and vfc-vnfres. The core microservice vfc-vnflcm is responsible for VNF life cycle management.
4. known system limitations
Now the component Redundancy and scaling depends on Kubernetes.
5. Used Models
VFC use the following models:
- TOSCA - VNF Descriptor/NS Descriptor ETSI NFV SOL001 v2.4.1 & v2.5.1
6. System Deployment Architecture
VFC consists of 15 container microservices:
vfc-nslcm - Network Service Lifecycle Management microservice
vfc-resmgr - The Resource Manager microservice
- vfc-workflow - The Workflow Manager microservice
- vfc-workflow-engine - The activiti workflow engine microservice
- vfc-generic-vnfm-driver - The G-VNFM driver
- vfc-juju-vnfm-driver - The juju G-VNFM driver
- vfc-huawei-vnfm-driver - The Huawei S-VNFM driver
- vfc-zte-vnfm-driver - The ZTE S-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
- vfc-db - The VF-C DB service
- vfc-vnflcm - The G-VNFM VNF Lifecycle Management microservice
- vfc-vnfmgr - The G-VNFM VNF Manager microservice
- vfc-vnfres - The G-VNFM resource management microservice
7. New Release Capabilities
- To be completed based upon VF-C Dublin release notes
8. References
- VF-C Installation & User Guide: https://docs.onap.org/en/latest/submodules/vfc/nfvo/lcm.git/docs/platform/installation/index.html