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- component of a VSP
- examples: Hypervisor, VM virtual machine recovery details, and cloning
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- part of MANO
- controls and manages the NFVI compute, storage, and network resources
VM: Virtual Machine
VNF = NFV: Virtual Network Functions
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- machine parsable data serialization format designed for human readability and interaction with scripting languages such as Perl and Python (yaml.org) (wikipedia)
YANG: A Data Modeling Language for the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) Anchor YANG YANG
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