VNF Manager (VNFM)
This site has been moved to https://cloudifynetwork.com/ A VNF manager manages the state, lifecycle and resources of one or more VNFs. It is responsible for instantiation, update, query, scaling, healing, termination etc of the VNFs. VNF Descriptor ( VNFD) The deployment and operational behaviour of each VNF is stored in a VNF Descriptor file ( VNFD). It contains information such as VNF Version: Version of VNF, which can be used later to enable upgrades and bug fixes Network connectivity: Service Chaining - If there are some VNFs that need to be started in particular order to provide a service to an application, that information can be stored in the VNFD. For e.g. say starting MME VNF before SGW , PGW and configure network connectivity only between MME-SGW and SGW-PGW but not MME-PGW Type of virtual links and QoS to be supported Deployment Flavor: How many CPUs, Cores, Threads, memory etc should be provided to this VNF Policies: