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• • Vendor SVNFM must be "SOL003-compliant"
  • Providing SOL003 APIs for VNFM LCM, based on ETSI VNFLifecycleManagement
    • Use https://forge.etsi.org/gitlab/nfv/SOL002-SOL003/2.5.1/master/src/SOL003/VNFLifecycleManagement swagger for providing services
    • Create
    • Instantiate
    • Grant request to SO VNFM Adapter, as a client
    • Life cycle notification
    • Terminate/Delete
  • Registration itself to ONAP (thru A&AI ESR) - Name, Type, Vendor, Version, URL, VIM, Username and Password
  • Providing Subscription Services for Life-cycle Management Notifications
  • Due to SDC SOL004 package support issues in Dublin, manual onboarding VNF Packages are needed for SVNFM. 
  • Support of the "Direct Mode" of Resource Management only
    • After receiving a grant permission, the VNFM sends requests for resources directly to VIM
    • Invoking MultiCloud from VNFM is under discussion, but not for Dublin
    • The "Indirect Mode" of Resource Management is being discussed, but not for Dublin

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• • SO VNFM Adapter component is a sub component of SO; utilizing docker image and container managed.
    • North Bound Interface (NBI)
      • RESTful APIs that support createVnf (invokes both createVnf and instantiateVnf), grantVnf, TerminateVnf/DeleteVnf
      • Its APIs are SO specific; i.e., not SOL003-based ones; for the NB API details, see the SO VNFM Adapter APIs page.
    • Business Logic layer
      • It is invoked by the NBI and provides business logic for createVnf, instantiateVnf, terminateVnf/DeleteVnf
      • SDNC and A&AI access to collect assignment and VimConnectionInfo
      • Accesses SdcPackageProvider for getting SOL004 package(s) and parameters
      • SdcPackageProvider
        • Supports SOL001/SOL004 package management
        • Provides getPackage, getVnfdId, getFlavorId, getVnfNodeProperty
        • Provides getPackage(s), getVnfd, getArtifactFile for SVNFM
        • Uses SDC Tosca Parser
      • GrantManager
        • Provides requestGrantForInstantiate REST API for SVNFM
        • Invokes OOF for homing decision; HPA support, and/or non-OOF decision
      • SOL003Lcn APIs
        • Supports VnfIdentifierCreationNotification, VnfIdentifierDeletionNotification, VnfLcmOperationOccurrenceNotification
    • SOL003 Communication Layer
      • It is a thin REST client layer, which sends SOL003-compliant requests to SVNFMs and receives responses/notifications from SVNFM.
      • For Grant, it provides the Grant REST endpoint for SVNFM
      • For the SOL003 Southbound API details, see the  SO VNFM Adapter APIs page.

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• CSAR Import, Store and Retrieve Sequences 

  • SDC stores the original vendor VNF package along with the transformed ONAP-compliant package.
    • Note: this will not supported SDC Dublin.
  • SO uses SDC-transformed CSAR packages and VNFM Adapter uses the original Vendor CSAR package.
    • Note: since SDC Dublin does not support the original vendor CSAR package, SO VNFM Adapter will retrieve VNFDs from SDC.
    • For that reason, the following steps 1, 2, 3 and 4 have been simplified and adjusted.
  • In Dublin, SVNFM needs to onboard its VNF packages.

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  • Design 

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• • • VNF Application Configuration thru VNFM Adapter and VNFM is under discussion  (out of scope from Dublin)

      • Architecture subcommittee is defining orchestration scenarios for application configuration

    • Better mechanism for VNFM Adapter to locate VNFMs (two methods are suggested)

      • How do we identify which VNFM to use?

    • Modelling for VNF and VF Modules; mapping between VF Modules and VNF (out of scope from Dublin)

      • Assigning Network resources to SDNC; do we use preload data?

    • Continue to support existing non-ETSI SO workflows along with ETSI-based workflows

    • SOL001/SOL004 SO Representation (for Dublin, the second option was chosen)

      • Option #1: Enhance SO Catalog Database? 

        • VNF_Package (vnfdid, vnfm_info, version, vnf_provider, product, vendor, etc.)

        • VNF_Package_Artifact (child database for VNF_Package, VNFD_URL, SoftwareImage_URL, Additional Files etc)

      • Option #2: Store minimum reference in TOSCA_CSAR database table? This was chosen for Dublin

    • MultiCloud use (not for Dublin)

    • SO VNFM Adapter High Availability and error handling are not fully covered.