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Attribute

Qualifier

Cardinality

Content

Description

CMCC Comment

State

vnfdInvariantId


1

Identifier

Invariant identifier of the VNFD

Can it be merged with nfProductName below?

FFS

vnfdId

M

1

Identifier

Identifier of this VNFD information element. This attribute shall be globally unique. The format will be defined in the data model specification phase. See note 1.

TBA


agreed

nfDescription


1

NFDescription

Description of the VNF.

Confirmed

removed

vnfProvider

M

1

String

Provider of the VNF and of the VNFD.

Confirmed

agreed

vnfProductName

M

1

String

Name to identify the VNF Product. Invariant for the VNF Product lifetime.

Renamed to Name

agreed

vnfSoftwareVersion

M

1

Version

Software version of the VNF. This is changed when there is any change to the software that is included in the VNF Package.

Renamed to SWversion

agreed

vnfdVersion

M

1

Version

Identifies the version of the VNFD.

Renamed to Version

agreed

vnfProductInfoName

M

0..1

String

Human readable name for the VNF Product. Can change during the VNF Product lifetime.

Renamed to Shortname

agreed

vnfProductInfo
Description

M

0..1

String

Human readable description of the VNF Product. Can change during the VNF Product lifetime.

Renamed to description

agreed

vnfmInfo

M

0..N

String

Identifies VNFM(s) compatible with the VNF described in this version of the VNFD.

TBA.

Suggest to follow R1 convention, using the name of micro-service of the vnfm drive.

For vendor specific vnfm: vendorname+vnfmdriver

For generic vnfm: gvnfmdriver

agreed

localizationLanguage

M

0..N

Not specified

Information about localization languages of the VNF (includes e.g. strings in the VNFD). See note 4.

Optional, refer to ISO936 https://www.iso.org/iso-639-language-codes.html

agreed

defaultLocalization
Language

M

0..1

Not specified

Default localization language that is instantiated if no information about selected localization language is available.

Shall be present if "localizationLanguage" is present and shall be absent otherwise.

Optional, refer to ISO936 https://www.iso.org/iso-639-language-codes.html

agreed

vdu

M

1..N

Vdu

Virtualisation Deployment Unit. See clause 7.1.6.

Confirmed.

agreed

virtualComputeDesc

M

1..N

VirtualComputeDesc

Defines descriptors of virtual compute resources to be used by the VNF. See clause 7.1.9.2.2.

Suggest to change from 0.. N to 1.. N.

agreed

virtualStorageDesc

M

0..N

VirtualStorageDesc

Defines descriptors of virtual storage resources to be used by the VNF. See clause 7.1.9.4.2.

Confirmed

agreed

intVirtualLinkDesc

M

1..N

VnfVirtualLinkDesc

Represents the type of network connectivity mandated by the VNF provider between two or more CPs which includes at least one internal CP. See clause 7.1.7.

Confirmed

agreed

vnfReservedCpd


M

1..N

VduCpd

Reserved IP Address for VNF which is not bounded to any specific VNFC, but assigned manually from outside and potentially shared as a floating IP among VNFCs.

TBA.

agreed

vnfExtCpd

M

1..N

VnfExtCpd

Describes external interface(s) exposed by this VNF enabling connection with a VL. See clause 7.1.3.

Confirmed

agreed

deploymentFlavour

M

1..N

VnfDf

Describes specific DF(s) of a VNF with specific requirements for capacity and performance. See clause 7.1.8.

Confirmed

agreed

configurableProperties

M

0..1

VnfConfigurableProperties

Describes the configurable properties of the VNF (e.g. related to auto scaling and auto healing). See clause 7.1.12.

Optional. Without definitions for key-value pairs.

agreed

modifiableAttributes

M

0..1

VnfInfoModifiableAttributes

Describes the modifiable attributes of the VNF. See clause 7.1.14.

Optional Without definitions for key-value pairs.

agreed

lifeCycleManagementScript

M

0..N

LifeCycleManagementScript

Includes a list of events and corresponding management scripts performed for the VNF. See clause 7.1.13.

Confirmed

agreed

elementGroup

M

0..N

VnfdElementGroup

Describes the associated elements of a VNFD for a certain purpose during VNF lifecycle management. See clause 7.1.4.

To be further worked on.

Without definitions for key-value pairs.

agreed

vnfIndicator

M

0..N

VnfIndicator

Declares the VNF indicators that are supported by this VNF.

Confirmed

agreed

autoScale

M

0..N

Rule

Rule that determines when a scaling action needs to be triggered on a VNF instance e.g. based on certain VNF indicator values or VNF indicator value changes or a combination of VNF indicator value(s) and monitoring parameter(s). See notes 2 and 3.

To be further worked on.

Suggest to allow for multiple rules. Provide specifications for rule definition.

postpone to future release

VeVnfmVnfInterface

M

1

String

The API (e.g. IP adress and port) for VNF management.

TBA.


logo

M

0..1

String

File path of the vendor specified logo.

Confirmed

agreed

homingGroup


0..N

Not Specified


Not sure when and how to use this attribute.

removed

NOTE 1:   The VNFD Identifier shall be used as the unique identifier of the VNF Package that contains this VNFD. Any modification of the content of the VNFD or the VNF Package shall result in a new VNFD Identifier.

NOTE 2:   Monitoring parameters are specified as part of VNF flavour, VDU and VL descriptions.

NOTE 3:   The rule (conditions and actions) can be expressed as a script.

NOTE 4:   This allows to provide one or more localization languages to support selecting a specific localization language at VNF instantiation time.



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