Class: SwImageDesc

Description

The SwImageDesc information element describes requested additional capability for a particular VDU. Such a capability may be for acceleration or specific tasks.

Storage not necessarily related to the compute, may be Network Attached Storage (NAS).

References: ETSI GS NFV-IFA 011

Associations

table of relationships

Related Class

Type

Name

Description

Cardinality

Related Class

Type

Name

Description

Cardinality



generalization

IsASubclass

Virtual Memory Descriptor is a Subclass of



VDUDesc

association

VNFCDescLoads

A VDU (VNFC) Descriptor loads 0 or 1 Software Images

1..* to 0..*

VirtualStorageDesc

association

SwLoadedOnStorage

Software may be loaded on Virtual Storage Descriptor

0..1 to 0..1



Attributes

table of attributes

Attribute

Qualifier

Cardinality

Content

Description

Attribute

Qualifier

Cardinality

Content

Description

name

M

1

String

Name of this software image.

References: ETSI GS NFV-IFA 011

version

M

1

String

Version of this software image.

References: ETSI GS NFV-IFA 011

checksum

M

1

String

Checksum of the software image file.

References: ETSI GS NFV-IFA 011

containerFormat

M

1

String

The container format describes the container file format in which software image is provided.

References: ETSI GS NFV-IFA 011

diskFormat

M

1

String

The disk format of a software image is the format of the underlying disk image.

References: ETSI GS NFV-IFA 011

minDisk

M

1

Scalar-Unit-Size

The minimal disk size requirement for this software image.

References: ETSI GS NFV-IFA 011

minRam

M

0..1

Scalar-Unit-Size

The minimal RAM requirement for this software image.

References: ETSI GS NFV-IFA 011

size

M

1

Scalar-Unit-Size

The size of this software image.

References: ETSI GS NFV-IFA 011

swImage

M

1

String

A reference to the actual software image within VNF Package, or URL.

References: ETSI GS NFV-IFA 011

operatingSystem

M

0..1

String

Identifies the operating system used in the software image.

References: ETSI GS NFV-IFA 011

supportedVirtualizationEnviroment

M

0..1

String

Identifies the virtualization environments (e.g. hypervisor) compatible with this software image.

References: ETSI GS NFV-IFA 011