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This page is used to collect VF-C requirements  for Beijing Release. Welcome feedback.

Functionality Requirement

Functionality Requirement

Requirement Description

NS/VNF auto scaling(in/out)NS/VNF auto scaling out/in based on policies
NS/VNF manual scaling(in/out)NS/VNF manual scaling
VNF scale to
  • On the S-VNFM interface the LCN should support scale to operation type
  • On the S-VNFM interface the scale to operation should be available
Indirect Modesupport Indirect mode related to VNF-related Resource Management
VNF Image Management
  • support VNF Image storage and distribute to VIM
  • the image to be used for one particular VNFC should be passed on S-VNFM interface during grant response
VNC Flavour Management
  • the flavour to be used for one particular VNFC should be passed on S-VNFM interface during grant response
VNF availability zone management
  • the availability zone to be used for one particular VNFC should be passed on S-VNFM interface during grant response
Multiple instantiation level support
  • it should be possible to define multiple instantiation levels in VNFD (without using vendor specific extensions)
  • the instantiation level to be used should be passed on S-VNFM interface during instantiation
Externally supplied addresses
  • it should be possible to pass external IP addresses, subnet ids ... for each external connection points
Affinity support
  • it should be possible to define affinity policies in the VNFD
  • VF-C should send the availability zones to be used in accordance to the VNF affinity requirements in VNFD
  • VF-C should take the affinity requirements (host and zone) when answering grant on S-VNFM interface
VNF attribute support
  • it should be possible to define VNF specific attributes in VNFD (without using vendor specific extensions)
  • the VNF attributes should be sent from VF-C S-VNFM during instantiation
Security issues
  • both KeyStone authentication domains should be visible on S-VNFM VIM query API
  • it should be possible to define multiple endpoints for a single ESR (S-VNFM)
  • S-VNFM should authenticate itself to VF-C (LCN & granting)
    • possibly OAUTH
  • VF-C should authenticate itself to S-VNFM
    • possibly OAUTH
  • SSL should be supported on VF-C APIs (LCM, catalog)
  • SSL should be supported on S-VNFM API
    • the VNFM query should provide the trusted CA certificates for VF-C interfaces
Workflow function improvementsupport workflow loading distributed by SDC
R2 Model alignmentR2 Information Model and Data Model alignment
GVNFM usecase TestFind GVNFM usecase and test
Interface align with ETSI SOL003

Existing interface aligns with ETSI SOL003

  • support VNF modify interface



 Integration with other projects(VF-C will consume the interfaces these projects provided ):

Functionality Requirement

Requirement Description

OOM IntegrationIntegration with OOM to deploy VF-C
A&AI IntegrationImprove integration with A&AI(Virtual resource created by VF-C save to A&AI )
OF Integration Plan to integration with OF when do resource granting



Non-functional Requirement

Reference  ONAP R2 proposals for Non-functional requirements

Non-functional Requirement

Requirement Description

Community S3P requirementsRequirements abou S3P





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