ONAP VF-C

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As part of the integration between OpenECOMP and OPEN-O, VF-C leverages ETSI NFV MANO architecture and information model as a reference, and implements life cycle management and FCAPS of VNF and NS.

  • support NS and VNF lifecycle management based on the ONAP tosca and yang data model and workflow

  • support integration with multi VNFMs via drivers, which include vendors VNFM and generic VNFM

  • support integration with multi VNFs via generic VNFM, which does not provide VNFM function

  • support integration with multi VIMS via Multi-VIM, which include the opensource and commercial VIMs

  • support microservice architecture and model driven resource orchestration and management

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VF-C as one controller in ONAP includes two components NFV-O and GVNFM.

  • NFVO component

    • compliant with ETSI NFV MANO architecture and information model,

    • providing resource orchestration and full life cycle management and FCAPS for NS,

    • providing standard south bound interface to VNFMs,

    • providing north bound interface to SO, to take part in fulfilling the orchestration and operation of end2end service,

    • providing interface and work with DCAE and Policy for Close Loop Automation.

  • GVNFM component

    • compliant with ETSI NFV MANO architecture and information model

    • providing full life cycle management and FCAPS for VNFs which do not require a vendor VNFM,

    • providing interface and work with NFV-O component, to take part in fulfilling the LCM and FCAPS management of NS,

    • providing interface and work with DCAE and Policy for Close Loop Automation.