Use Case

To manage vendor-provided VNFs and VIMs, ONAP wants to leverage the vendor-supplied VNFMs. For that, ONAP SO in Dublin added a plug-in capability for SVNFMs and interfaces with the plugged SVNFMs through SOL003 API standards, along with SOL004 VNF packages which include SOL001 VNFD. The SOL003 Adapter in Dublin supported the SOL003 Create, Instantiate, Terminate and Delete operations with Granting, Subscription and Notification. In the Guilin release, the additional SOL003 operations will be supported as follows. For the SOL004 and SOL001 support, see the ETSI Package Management section (ETSI Package Management).

  • Package Management for SVNFM
  • Granting Enhancement with HPA
  • Query
  • Modify (TBD)
  • Policy-based Scaling (Stretch goal)
  • Security between the Adapter and VNFMs
  • Additional operations will be determined


Feature Descriptions

Feature

Description

SOL003 VNFM Adapter NBI Enhancement

SOL003 VNFM Adapter exposes its NBI to any VNFM Adapter Client. 

  • VNFM Adapter will be part of SO microservices, but the adapter can be invoked thru MSB.
  • It is a stepping stone for GNFC to leverage the VNFM Adapter
  • Supports additional NBI operations for the additional SOL003-based SBI
  • Support secured communication protocol and authentication and authorization via AAF
SOL003 Adapter Package Management Support

SOL003 Adapter package management support based on SOL003 APIs

  • Handle SOL003-based VNF package requests from SVNFMs
  • Query VNF packages from the ONAP-ETSI Catalog Manager
  • Provide VNF packages to SVNFMs
Granting EnhancementGranting is enhanced to support HPA by leveraging OOF
Additional of SOL003 operations 

Support of additional SOL003 operations, such as Grant enhancement, Query, Modify, Scale, Operation Status, FM, PM, Heal, VNF Indicator, Retry, Rollback, Failing, Cancelling, Resource Quota Available Notification

  • operation selections and priorities will be determined 
Mapping between SOL001 VNFD and SDC AID DM

The VNFM Adapter needs to handle mapping between SOL001 VNFD and SDC AID DM

  • Not all VNFD needs to be transformed to the SDC AID DM
  • The Adapter will map the model as much as it needs
  • Mapping to the VF-Module is questionable at this time 
Policy-based Scaling

Policy-based Scaling with VNF Indicator and VES event handling

  • Currently, SOL001 specifications does not support the VNF indicator configuration. As a result, VNFD-based VNF indicator is not supported; i.e., auto scaling is not yet supported
  • Mapping between VF-Module and ScalingAspect+Data is under discussion. Several VNF vendors indicated that they don't want to handle the VF-Module level.
Secured communication and authentication and authorization support by SOL003 Adapter

Secured communication and authentication and authorization support

  • HTTPS protocol
  • Authentication and Authorization support via AAF

Epic and User Story

Epic

User Story

Description

In Guilin Plan?JIRASize
SOL003 Adapter maintenance Enhancements
SOL003 Adapter maintenance EnhancementsYes

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Refactor SOL003 Adapter to organize its modules based on functions

Refactor SOL003 Adapter to organize its modules based on functions

  • LCM
  • Package Management
  • Notification
Yes

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SOL003 Adapter gets package info from ETSI Catalog ManagerSOL003 Adapter gets package info from ETSI Catalog ManagerYes

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Support of ETSI SOL003 v2.7.1 Or-Vnfm Interface from ONAP to external VNF Manager(s)










Support of ETSI SOL003 v2.7.1 Or-Vnfm Interface from ONAP to external VNF Manager(s)

Executive Summary - Provide an interface adapter from ONAP Service Orchestrator to external VNF Manager(s) using  ETSI SOL003 v2.7.1 (Link to ETSI SOL003 v2.7.1compliant Interface 

  • Support for Create, Instantiate, Query of a VNF using an external VNF Manager

  • Support for Grant request from an external VNF Manager

  • Support for ModifyVnfInfo using an external Manager

  • Support for VNF Heal

  • Support for VNF Scale (out, in, level)

  • Support for Grant with Incremental resource allocation and HPA support using OOF

  • Support for received VNF Life Cycle Notifications (LCN) from a VNF Manager and translation into DCAE Events

  • Oauth2 based authentication support between ONAP and VNFM(s)

Business Impact - Enables operators and service providers to use vendor provided or internally developed ETSI compliant VNF Manager(s).  Industry compatibility.

Business Markets - All operators and service providers that are using ETSI SOL003 compliant VNF Managers

Funding/Financial Impacts - Reduction in operations expense from using industry standard Interfaces.

Organization Mgmt, Sales Strategies -There is no additional organizational management or sales strategies for this requirement outside of a service providers "normal" ONAP deployment and its attendant organizational resources from a service provider. 

No

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SOL003  Adapter NBI Enhancement

Expose the Adapter NBI to any SOL003 Adapter client in ONAP

No

SO-2407 - SOL003 Adapter NBI Enhancement OPEN


  • Create (Create/Instantiate)
  • Create (Create/Instantiate)
No

SO-2408 - SOL003 Adapter NBI - Create (Create/Instantiate) OPEN


  • Delete (Terminate/Delete)
  • Delete (Terminate/Delete)
No

SO-2409 - SOL003 Adapter NBI - Delete (Terminate/Delete) OPEN


  • Query
  • Query
No

SO-2410 - SOL003 Adapter NBI - Query OPEN


  • Get Operation Status
  • Get Operation Status
No

SO-2411 - SOL003 Adapter NBI - Get Operation Status OPEN


  • Modify
  • Modify
No

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  • Heal
  • Heal VNF (triggered by SOL003 Adapter, not auto-healing)
No

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  • Scaling (Stretch goal)
  • Scaling (Stretch goal)
No

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SOL003 Adapter Grant Enhancement that supports HPA by leveraging OOF VNF Granting that supports HPA by leveraging OOFNo

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SOL003 Adapter Enhancement for VNF QueryTo invoke VNF QueryNo

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SOL003 Adapter Enhancement for VNF Operation Status To invoke Operation StatusNo

SO-2423 - SOL003 Adapter - VNF Operation Status OPEN


SOL003 Adapter Enhancement for VNF ModifyTo invoke VNF ModifyNo

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SOL003 Adapter Enhancement for VNF HealTo invoke VNF HealNo

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SOL003 Adapter Enhancement for VNF Scaling (Stretch goal)to support Policy-based VNF Scaling support; Interface to DCAE for VES eventNo

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SO BPPN Workflows & Java for SOL003 Operations

SO BPMN Workflows & Java for SOL003 Operations by leveraging the SOL003 Adapter NBIs

No

SO-2466 - SO BPMN Workflows and Java for SOL003 operations OPEN


  • Enhance Create/Instantiate Workflows & Associated Java code
  • Enhance Create/Instantiate Workflows & Associated Java code
    • Modify the existing workflow to separate Create and Instantiate tasks
    • Invoke the modified SOL003 Adapter NBIs
No

SO-2467 - Enhance Create/Instantiate Workflows & Associated Java code OPEN


  • Enhance Terminate/Delete Workflows & Associated Java code
  • Enhance Terminate/Delete Workflows & Associated Java code
    • Modify the existing workflow to separate Terminate and Delete tasks
    • Invoke the modified SOL003 Adapter NBIs
No

SO-2468 - Enhance Terminate/Delete Workflows & Associated Java code OPEN


  • Create Query VNF Workflows & Associated Java code
  • Create Query VNF Workflows & Associated Java code
    • Invoke the modified SOL003 Adapter Query VNF NBI
No

SO-2469 - Create Query VNF Workflows & Associated Java code OPEN


  • Create Get Operation Status Workflows & Associated Java code
  • Create Get Operation Status Workflows & Associated Java code
    • Invoke the modified SOL003 Adapter Get Operation Status NBI
    • This operation could be used by the Instantiation and Termination of VNF; in this case, its workflow could be omitted
No

SO-2470 - Create Get Operation Status Workflows & Associated Java code OPEN


  • ModifyInfo VNF Workflows & Java code
  • ModifyInfo Workflows & Associated Java code
No

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  • Heal Workflows & Java code
  • Heal Workflows & Java ode
    • Scaling out
    • Scaling in
    • Scaling to level
No

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  • Scaling workflows & Java code
  • Scaling workflows & Java code
No

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CSIT enhancement for testing SOL003 Adapter enhancementCSIT enhancement for testing SOL003 Adapter enhancementNo

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Documentation for SOL003 Adapter enhancement featuresDocumentation for SOL003 Adapter enhancement featuresNo

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SOL003 Adapter VNFM location enhancement

Enhance SOL003 Adapter VNFM location

  • SOL003 Adapter selects the VNFM to use on the first request and create a relationship between the VNFM and the VNF in AAI. for the case, the VNFM is deleted or changed, SOL003 Adapter needs to a re-synch mechanism for VNFM location
  • It is an exception handling for VNFM instances 
No

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SOL003 Adapter Architecture for Guilin

The diagram depicts SOL003 VNFM Adapter Architecture.


SOL003 Adapter Architecture for Guilin



  1. SOL003 Adapter continues to be an SO microservice component, and exposes its NBI to any SOL003 Adapter client in ONAP
  2. SOL003 Adapter is registered to MSB.
  3. Operator registers VNFM and VIM to ESR in AAI.
  4. SOL003 Adapter exposes its NBI to any SOL003 Adapter client in ONAP
    1. Interfaces will be refactored to be generic to allow access by other ONAP components.
    2. The NBI will be enhanced for additional SOL003 operation support
  5. SDC distributes SDC packages including the vendor original SOL004 (VNF and PNF) and SOL007 (NS) packages 
  6. SO (SDC Controller) passes the SDC CSAR ID to ETSI Catalog Manager to invoke storage
  7. ETSI Catalog Manager queries for SDC CSAR with the SDC CSAR id & store SOL004/SOL007 package.
  8. SO (BPMN) and the SOL003 Adapter client locates SOL003 Adapter.
  9. SO (BPMN) and the SOL003 Adapter client invokes SOL003 Adapter.
  10. SOL003 Adapter retrieves VNF package from Catalog Manager.
  11. SOL003 Adapter gets available VNFM locations (endpoints) and gets VIM and VNF Info.
  12. SOL003 Adapter selects a VNFM, based on a VNFM locating mechanism.
  13. SOL003 Adapter and SVNFM supports SOL003 VNF LCM, granting and package management operations.
  14. SOL003 Adapter supports HPA-based Granting, leveraging OOF.
  15. SOL003 Adapter updates vServer, status and VNF association in AAI
  16. SOL003 Adapter and SVNFM support authentication and authorization (AAF, and vendor AA mechanism) 
  17. For integration testing, the VNFM Simulator is used.


SOL003 Operations

The following SOL003 operations will be supported:

  • Grant enhancement
  • Query of VNF
  • Scaling (stretch goal)
  • Modify
  • Operation Status

SOL003-based Operation Sequence Flows

  • Create / Instantiate VNF
    • It is supported in the Dublin release, and it will be enhanced to leverage the ONAP-ETSI Catalog Manager.
  • The following sequence flows depicts the SOL003 Create/Instantiate operations by leveraging the above architecture. 


  • Terminate/Delete VNF
    • It is supported in the Dublin release, and it will be enhanced to leverage the ONAP-ETSI Catalog Manager.
  • The following sequence flows depicts the SOL003 Terminate/Delete operations by leveraging the above architecture. 

<Diagram : tbd>


SOL003 Adapter - SVNFM - ETSI Catalog Manager Operations

The SOL003 Adapter supports the following SOL003-based operations.

Operation Interfaces Requirements

API Action

Actor

Method

URI

Description

Grant Request VNFM → SOL003 AdapterPOST/grants/ (GrantRequest)To get VNF granting
Query VNFSOL003 Adapter → VNFMGET

/vnf_instances

/vnf_instances/{vnfInstanceId}

To get VNF instances or a VNF instance
Modify VNFSOL003 Adapter → VNFMPATCH/vnf_instances/{vnfInstanceId} (VnfInfoModificationRequest)To modify VNF instances
Get Operation StatusSOL003 Adapter → VNFMGET/vnf_lcm_op_occsTo get VNF operation status


Package Management



  • Creating subscriptions for the package management (VNFM → SOL003 Adapter)
    • Subscribe (SVNFM → SOL003 Adapter) : subscribe to notifications related to onboarding and/or changes of VNF package
    • The SVNFM sends a POST request for the Subscriptions resource including PkgSubscriptionRequest to the SOL003 Adapter.
    • The SOL003 Adapter returns with a data structure of PkgmSubscription to the SVNFM

Precondition: SVNFM does not have package subscription.

Postcondition: SOL003 Adapter create subscription resource in memory (persistency is to be determined) 

                           SVNFM gets package subscription (PkgmSubscription)

<Sequence Diagram SVNFM → SOL003 Adapter>


<Sequence Diagram SOL003 Adapter → ETSI_Catalog_Manager>


  • Query Subscription Info
    • SVNFM re-synchronizes all or selected subscriptions after some errors in SVNFM or some exception handling.
    • SVNFM sends a Query Subscription Info request to the SOL003 Adapter.
      • GET .../subscriptions  // for all subscriptions
    • SOL003 Adapter returns package subscription lists in the form of PkgmSubscription[] in the payload for the subscription requestor
    • or
    • SVNFM sends a Query Subscription Info request for a selected subscription to the SOL003 Adapter 
      • GET .../subscriptions/{subscriptionId}
    • SOL003 Adapter returns a selected package subscription to SVNFM.


Precondition: SVNFM lost package subscription information

Postcondition: SVNFM gets package subscription information


  • Delete Subscription
    • SVNFM does not need the subscription anymore.
    • SVNFM sends a request for Terminate/Delete Subscription to the SOL003 Adapter. 
    • SOL003 Adapter removes the SVNFM package subscription.
    • SOL003 Adapter sends the 204 No content response to SVNFM.


Precondition: SVNFM subscribed to the SOL003 Adapter for package notifications

Postcondition: SOL003 Adapter removed the SVNFM package subscription.


  • Sending notifications for the package management (SOL003 Adapter → VNFM)
    • If an event occurs that matches the filtering criteria, the SOL003 Adapter generates a notification that includes information about the event, and sends it to the registered SVNFM.
    • SOL003 Adapter receives a notification from the ONAP-ETSI Catalog Manager
    • SOL003 Adapter sends a Notify message about VNF package onboarding or change
      • POST <<Client side URL>> (<<Notification>>)
    • SVNFM acknowledges the successful delivery of notification.
      • 204 No content


Precondition: SVNFM has subscribed to the SOL003 Adapter previously

                        SOL003 Adapter subscribed to the ETSI Catalog Manager previously

Postcondition: SVNFM receives a notification


  • Receiving notifications for the package management (ETSI Catalog Manager → SOL003 Adapter)
    • The ETSI Catalog Manager team is working on the Notification API.
    • Once the notification api is settled, the subscribed SOL003 Adapter will receive package notifications from the ETSI Catalog Manager.
  • <Sequence Diagram: TBD>


Grant Request with Synchronous Response with HPA (VNFM → SOL003 Adapter)

The SOL003 Adapter acts as a NFVO and supports the Synchronous Grant operation. Hardware Platform capability requirements are downloaded as part of the VNFD data.

There are two methods to support HPA in SO. 

  • Method 1: Use of Homing information that is made during the SO decompose processing.
    • During SO decompose processing, SO calls OOF for collecting homing information for the service (which includes the VNFs).
    • Call the OOF APIs to perform the optimize service/VNF homing and placement
    • Use the existing homing workflows to pass hardware platform capability requirements to OOF
    • See the following diagram for the component interaction.

Postcondition: SVNFM receives a granting


  • Method 2: If the above processing does not work for the vendor VNF HPA, OOF will be called from the SOL003 Adapter per VNF. The following describes the interactions between SOL003 Adapter and OOF.
    • Note: current, OOF does NOT support the VNF Level Homing request. OOF API enhancement is under discussion. Otherwise, the method 1 (Service Level Homing) is used.
    • VNFM Adapter sends out homing requests to OOF (OSDF) containing resource info
    • OOF (OSDF) pulls all the related homing constraints from Policy
    • OOF (HAS) checks AAI database to pull region (flavor) information
    • OOF (HAS) communicates with Multi-Cloud to check cloud capacity (vims which fulfill the requirements)
    • OOF (OSDF) returns homing allocation solution to VNFM Adapter
    • OOF collects information as following:
    • Service and Resource Info, from: AAI
    • HPA Flavors/Capabilities/Capacity Info, from: AAI
    • Policy Models (Homing, PCI) from: Policy
    • Infrastructure Metrics Info (capacity), from: MultiCloud
    • Cloud Agnostic Intent Info, from: MultiCloud
    • PCI configuration data (not yet a part of SDC model)
  • SOL003 Adapter Homing Request to OOF
    • <describe the homing request API and contract here>


GrantRequest Structure

Attribute name

Data type

Cardinality

Description

vnfInstanceId

Identifier

1

Identifier of the VNF instance which this grant request is related to. Shall also be provided for VNFs that not yet exist but are planned to exist in the future, i.e. if the grant is requested for InstantiateVNF.

vnfLcmOpOccId

Identifier

1

The identifier of the VNF lifecycle management operation occurrence associated to the GrantRequest.

vnfdId

Identifier

1

Identifier of the VNFD that defines the VNF for which the LCM operation is to be granted.

flavourId

Identifier

0..1

Identifier of the VNF deployment flavour of the VNFD that defines the VNF for which the LCM operation is to be granted.
Shall be provided when instantiating the VNF or changing the deployment flavour of the VNF instance.

operation

GrantedLcmOperationType

1

The lifecycle management operation for which granting is requested. See note 1.

isAutomaticInvocation

Boolean

1

Set to true if this VNF LCM operation occurrence has been triggered by an automated procedure inside the VNFM (i.e. ScaleVnf / ScaleVnfToLevel triggered by auto-scale, or HealVnf triggered by auto- heal).

Set to false otherwise.

instantiationLevelId

Identifier

0..1

If operation=INSTANTIATE, the identifier of the instantiation level may be provided as an alternative way to define the resources to be added. This attribute shall only be used if operation=INSTANTIATE.

See note 2.

addResources

ResourceDefinition

0..N

List of resource definitions in the VNFD for resources to be added by the LCM operation which is related to this grant request, with one entry per resource.

See note 2.

tempResources

ResourceDefinition

0..N

List of resource definitions in the VNFD for resources to be temporarily instantiated during the runtime of the LCM operation which is related to this grant request, with one entry per resource. See note 3.

removeResources

ResourceDefinition

0..N

Provides the definitions of resources to be removed by the LCM operation which is related to this grant request, with one entry per resource.

updateResources

ResourceDefinition

0..N

Provides the definitions of resources to be modified by the LCM operation which is related to this grant request, with one entry per resource.

placementConstraints

PlacementConstraint

0..N

Placement constraints that the VNFM may send to the NFVO in order to influence the resource placement decision. If sent, the NFVO shall take the constraints into consideration when making resource placement decisions, and shall reject the grant if they cannot be honoured. See note 4 and note 5.

vimConstraints

VimConstraint

0..N

Used by the VNFM to require that multiple resources are managed through the same VIM connection. If sent, the NFVO shall take the constraints into consideration when making VIM selection decisions, and shall reject the grant if they cannot be honoured.

This attribute shall be supported if VNF- related Resource Management in direct mode is applicable.

The applicability and further details of this attribute for indirect mode are left for future specification.

additionalParams

KeyValuePairs

0..1

Additional parameters passed by the VNFM, specific to the VNF and the LCM operation.

_links

Structure (inlined)

1

Links to resources related to this request.

>vnfLcmOpOcc

Link

1

Related lifecycle management operation occurrence.

>vnfInstance

Link

1

Related VNF instance.

NOTE 1: NOTE 2: NOTE 3:

NOTE 4: NOTE 5:

The VNF LCM operations CreateVnfIdentifier, DeleteVnfIdentifier, QueryVnf and ModifyVnfInformation can be executed by the VNFM without requesting granting.
If the granting request is for InstantiateVNF, either instantiationLevel or addResources shall be present.
The NFVO will assume that the VNFM will be responsible to both allocate and release the temporary resource during the runtime of the LCM operation. This means, the resource can be allocated and consumed after the "start" notification for the LCM operation is sent by the VNFM, and the resource will be released before the "result" notification of the VNF LCM operation is sent by the VNFM.
The affinity/anti-affinity rules defined in the VNFD , and the placement constraints in the GrantVnfLifecycleOperation as defined in this clause should be conflict-free. In case of conflicts, the placement constraints in the GrantVnfLifecycleOperation shall take precedence.
Passing constraints allows the VNFM or the lifecycle management scripts to influence resource placement decisions by the NFVO to ensure VNF properties such as performance or fault tolerance.


Grant Structure

Attribute name

Data type

Cardinality

Description

id

Identifier

1

Identifier of the grant.

vnfInstanceId

Identifier

1

Identifier of the related VNF instance.

vnfLcmOpOccId

Identifier

1

Identifier of the related VNF lifecycle management operation occurrence.

vimConnections

VimConnectionInfo

0..N

Provides information regarding VIM connections that are approved to be used by the VNFM to allocate resources, and provides parameters of these VIM connections.

The VNFM shall update the " vimConnectionInfo" attribute of the "VnfInstance" structure by adding unknown entries received in this attribute.

This attribute is not intended for the modification of VimConnection entries passed earlier; for that, the VnfInfoModificationRequest structure shall be used.

This attribute shall only be supported when VNF-related Resource Management in direct mode is applicable. In direct mode, this parameter shall be absent if the VIM information was configured to the VNFM in another way, present otherwise.

See note 1.

zones

ZoneInfo

0..N

Identifies resource zones where the resources are approved to be allocated by the VNFM.

zoneGroups

ZoneGroupInfo

0..N

Information about groups of resource zones that are related and that the NFVO has chosen to fulfil a zoneGroup constraint in the GrantVnfLifecycleOperation request. This information confirms that the NFVO has honoured the zoneGroup constraints that were passed as part of "placementConstraints" in the GrantRequest.

computeReservationId

IdentifierInVim

0..1

Information that identifies a reservation applicable to the compute resource requirements of the corresponding grant request. See note 2.

networkReservationId

IdentifierInVim

0..1

Information that identifies a reservation applicable to the network resource requirements of the corresponding grant request. See note 2.

storageReservationId

IdentifierInVim

0..1

Information that identifies a reservation applicable to the storage resource requirements of the corresponding grant request. See note 2.

addResources

GrantInfo

0..N

List of resources that are approved to be added, with one entry per resource.

tempResources

GrantInfo

0..N

List of resources that are approved to be temporarily instantiated during the runtime of the lifecycle operation, with one entry per resource.

removeResources

GrantInfo

0..N

List of resources that are approved to be removed, with one entry per resource.

updateResources

GrantInfo

0..N

List of resources that are approved to be modified, with one entry per resource.

vimAssets

Structure (inlined)

0..1

Information about assets for the VNF that are managed by the NFVO in the VIM, such as software images and virtualised compute resource flavours.

This attribute is not intended for the modification of vimAssets entries passed earlier. See note 3.

>computeResourceFlavours

VimComputeResourceFlavour

0..N

Mappings between virtual compute descriptors defined in the VNFD and compute resource flavours managed in the VIM.

>softwareImages

VimSoftwareImage

0..N

Mappings between software images defined in the VNFD and software images managed in the VIM.

extVirtualLinks

ExtVirtualLinkData

0..N

Information about external VLs to connect the VNF to. See note 5.

extManagedVirtualLinks

ExtManagedVirtualLinkData

0..N

Information about internal VLs that are managed by other entities than the VNFM. See note 4 and note 5.

additionalParams

KeyValuePairs

0..1

Additional parameters passed by the NFVO, specific to the VNF and the LCM operation.

_links

Structure (inlined)

1

Links to resources related to this resource.

>self

Link

1

URI of this resource.

>vnfLcmOpOcc

Link

1

Related VNF lifecycle management operation occurrence.

>vnfInstance

Link

1

Related VNF instance.

NOTE 1: NOTE 2:

NOTE 3: NOTE 4:

NOTE 5:

This interface allows to signal the use of multiple VIMs per VNF. However, due to the partial support of this feature in the present release, it is recommended in the present document that the number of entries in the "vims" attribute in the Grant is not greater than 1.
At least one of (computeReservationId, networkReservationId, storageReservationId) shall be present when policy is GRANT_RESERVE_SINGLE and an applicable reservation exists. None of these shall be present otherwise.

Modification of VIM assets during the lifetime of a VNF instance is not necessary, since it is expected that all applicable assets have been on boarded into the VIM before the VNF is instantiated.
The indication of externally-managed internal VLs is needed in case networks have been pre- configured for use with certain VNFs, for instance to ensure that these networks have certain properties such as security or acceleration features, or to address particular network topologies. The present document assumes that externally-managed internal VLs are managed by the NFVO and created towards the VIM.

External and/or externally-managed internal VLs can be passed in VNF lifecycle management operation requests such as InstantiateVnf or ChangeVnfFlavor, and/or in the grant response. The NFVO may choose to override in the grant response external and/or externally-managed VL instances that have been passed previously in the associated VNF lifecycle management request, if the lifecycle management request has originated from the NFVO itself.

Specifying HPA Capability Requirements using SOL001 VNFD

The VNFD is used to describe VNF-specific HPA capability requirements that will be matched against the capabilities of the underlying hardware infrastructure resources.

For HPA requirements, see Specifying HPA Capability Requirements using TOSCA-based VNF Descriptors

<TBD>


ONAP Component Interactions for HPA

source: Policy and Information sources for HAS


Homing policies may come from vendor, service architect and ONAP Operator/Administrator.


<describe further>



Query VNF (SOL003 Adapter → VNFM)

  • SOL003 Adapter sends a query request for VNF instance(s) - multiple or selected VNF instance
    • GET .../vnf_instances                                         // multiple VNF instances
    • GET .../vnf_instances/{VnfInstnaceId}            // selected VNF instance
  • SVNFM returns VNF Instance(s) in form of VnfInstance[] or VnfInstance
    • 200 OK with VnfInstance[]
    • 200 OK with VnfInstance

Precondition: VNF instance is created

Postcondition: SOL003 Adapter gets VnfInstance[] or VnfInstance



Modify VNF (SOL003 Adapter → VNFM)

The SOL003 Adapter requests the Modify VNF to the VNFM.


Get Operation Status (SOL003 Adapter → VNFM)

The SOL003 Adapter requests the Get Operation Status operation. The following diagram depicts a sequence for obtaining the status of a VNF lifecycle management operation occurrence.

SOL003 Adapter supports VNF Operation Status

  • SOL003 Adapter sends a request for VNF LCM operation occurrence(s) to the SVNFM
    • GET .../vnf_lcm_op_occs                                       // multiple
    • GET .../vnf_lcm_op_occs/{vnfLcmOpOccId}      // single
  • VNFM returns VNF LCM operation occurrence(s) to the SOL003 Adapter
    • 200 OK (VnfLcmOpOcc[])
    • 200 OK (VnfLcmOpOcc)


Precondition: SVNFM performed LCM operations

Postcondition: SOL003 Adapter receives VNF LCM operation occurrence(s)


Heal VNF (SOL003 Adapter → VNFM)

The SOL003 Adapter requests the Heal VNF operation. The following diagram depicts a sequence for the Heal VNF operation.


SO Workflows and Java Code (client) Enhancement

SO BPMN Workflows and associated Java code for SOL003 operations will be enhanced and created by leveraging the SOL003 Adapter NBIs.

Enhance Create/Instantiate Workflows & Associated Java Code

  • Modify the existing workflow to separate Create and Instantiate tasks
  • Invoke the modified SOL003 Adapter NBIs

Precondition: The generic VNF has been added in AAI. The VNF package has been distributed from SDC. The VNFM and VIM have been defined in AAI. VNFM simulator deployed as VNFM. SDNC preload completed through SDNC access site. Add the ETSI "Create_VNF" and "Terminate_VNF" building blocks to the "building_block_detail" table in MariaDB's "catalogdb". Edit the "orchestration_status_state_transition_directive" table in MariaDB's "catalogdb" to allow a service with "operationStatus" set to "CREATED" to allow a building block with a "TARGET_ACTION" of "ACTIVATE" to "CONTINUE".

 Postcondition: Create and instantiate requests were correctly sent to the VNFM, the grant request from the VNFM was handled and reply sent to the VNFM and AAI was updated in accordance with the notifications received from the VNFM as a result of the VNF being instantiated.

Enhance Terminate/Delete Workflows & Associated Java Code

  • Modify the existing workflow to separate Terminate and Delete tasks
  • Invoke the modified SOL003 Adapter NBIs

Precondition: The VNF has been created via the VNFM adapter

Postcondition: Terminate and delete requests were correctly sent to the VNFM, the grant request from the VNFM was handled and reply sent to the VNFM and AAI was updated in accordance with the notifications received from the VNFM as a result of the VNF being terminated.

Create Query VNF Workflows & Associated Java Code

  • Create a new workflow for Query VNF and associated Java code
  • Invoke the modified SOL003 Adapter Query VNF NBI

Precondition: VNF is created previously

Postcondition: Query VNF workflow get VNF info

Create Get Operation Status Workflows & Associated Java code

  • Create a new Get Operation Status Workflow & Associated Java code
  • Invoke the modified SOL003 Adapter Get Operation Status NBI
  • This operation could be used by the Instantiation and Termination of VNF; in this case, its workflow could be omitted

Precondition: VNF instantiation or terminate is started

Postcondition: the workflow or the SOL003 Adapter client gets the VnF operation status.


Authentication and Authorization for the SOL003 Adapter and the VNFM

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