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Infrastructure Class - Representation for a NFVI resource, its information model, relationships, hierarchies, and aggregations.
Cloud Capability Class - Representation for cloud profiles and capabilities including technology, architecture, hardware, configurations, and so on.
Application Class - Representation for various workloads and their compositions to deliver end-to-end services such as vEPC, vIMS, vCPE, etc. This is out of scope for this specification.
Business Context
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In the current solution landscape, Multi-vendor Cloud (OpenStack-based, VMware VIO, Microsoft Azure etc.) management involves a Cloud-specific Service Provider Design time (on-boarding, infrastructure policy authoring etc.), Deployment time (workload management etc.), Operational time (data management etc.).
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