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.. Copyright 2019 ONAP Contributors. All rights reserved.
VNF Instantiation
=================
**Pre-requisites**
- The VNF is part of a Service Model (see: :ref:`Service Design <doc_guide_user_des_ser-des>`)
.. Note:: In ONAP SDC tool, VNF is named "VF"
**Possible methods with ONAP to instantiate a VNF**
- With **A La Carte**
method, the user needs to build and send a VNF instantiation
request.
Note 1: prior to be able to send a request to instantiate
a VNF, the user needs to instantiate a Service Object and then will
need to refer to that Service instance in the VNF instantiate request.
Note 2: after having instantiated the VNF object, the user needs to
instantiate a VF-module object, refering to the previously instantiated
VNF object.
Note 3: the request to instantiate the VF-module object will, at last, send
a request to the selected Cloud Platform (Openstack, Azure, K8S...).
- With **Macro**
method, the user do not need to send any
VNF instantiation request. VNF instantiation is being automatically
performed by ONAP when sending the request to instantiate the Service
(see: Instantiate Service).
**Possible Tools to perform VNF Instantiation**
the user needs such a tool only if using the "A La Carte" method.
- **via ONAP VID Graphical User Interface tool**
- **via any tool able to perform REST API requests**
(for example : Robot Framework, Postman, Curl...) connected
to **ONAP SO** legacy API.
With "A La Carte" method
------------------------
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
using ONAP VID Portal <../vid/index.rst>
using ONAP SO REST API <../so1/index.rst>
With "Macro" method
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VNF and VF-Module instantiation are performed automatically when performing
Service Instantiation.
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