Defines descriptors of virtual compute resources to be used by the VNF.
References to Vdus that are part of this group.
Describes external interface(s) exposed by this VNF enabling connection with a VL.
Describes CPU, Memory and acceleration requirements of the Virtualisation Container realising this Vdu.
Describes storage requirements for a VirtualStorage instance attached to the virtualisation container created from virtualComputeDesc defined for this Vdu. support:
Describes the software image which is directly loaded on the virtualisation container realising this Vdu. NOTE: More software images can be attached to the virtualisation container using VirtualStorage resources.
Identifies a flavour within a VnfVirtualLinkDesc.
Defines the internal VLD along with additional data which is used in this DF. NOTE 1: This allows for different VNF internal topologies between DFs. NOTE 2: virtualLinkProfile needs to be provided for all VLs that the CPs of the VDUs in the VDU profiles connect to.
Uniquely references a VLD.
Reference to the internal Virtual Link Descriptor (VLD) to which CPs instantiated from this external CP Descriptor (CPD) connect.
Specify instantiation priority and dependencies of VDU. Describes the associated elements of a VNFD for a certain purpose during VNF lifecycle management. A few quick observations 1. Using integer for number. Jessie: Created a primitive called Number which is a superset of integer and real. 2. created a datatype called enum. Deleted enum. Created "enums" where needed. 3. Seems like we are just using ETSI (beyound what we have in the works). Jessie: It appears that way. 4. Is monitoring param a class or a data type? Jessie: It is a datatype. Due to it's relationship to event, maybe a class?? 5. Class versus datatype?? ResourceDesc??? . can protocol be enumerated? - yes. Values? Change addrestype to enumeration . Change L2addressData and l3addressData to 0..1 given "only present...." definition orchestration Status - Pending, Created, Active... - Christina will query. . onboardedVnfPkgInfoId - need class for VnfPkg? Yes - probably need more discussion - tied to vnf model and internal model. Vnf Instance related to vnf descriptor or onboarding pkg descriptor Will not try to push this out into R3 - save for R4 A Resource is something that goes into the resource catalog from which services are made. . Per the above definition, A virtual link is a resource A license is not a resource A Cp is not a resource ONAP has a VirtualLinkDesc, not NetworkLink or LinkDesc This will probably need to move to common Attributes in violet - not necessary in Infomodell - can be retrieved from Vnfd. Attributes in beige - added or changed The Virtualisation Deployment Unit (VDU) is a construct supporting the description of the deployment and operational behavior of a VNFC. A VNFC instance created based on the VDU maps to a single virtualisation container (e.g. a VM). A VNFC will only be in one VNFDesc. If a vendor wants to use the VNFC in mupliple VNFDesc (their product) they can do so, but it will be 'repeated'. Unique identifier of this Vdu in VNFD. Human readable name of the Vdu. Human readable description of the Vdu. Boot order of valid boot devices. "key/name" indicates the the boot index "value" references a descriptor from which a valid boot device is created e.g. VirtualStorageDesc from which a VirtualStorage instance is created. NOTE: If no boot order is defined the default boot order defined in the VIM or NFVI shall be used. Describes constraints on the NFVI for the VNFC instance(s) created from this Vdu. For example, aspects of a secure hosting environment for the VNFC instance that involve additional entities or processes. "key/name" includes "AvailabilityZone", "HostAggregates". NOTE: These are constraints other than stipulating that a VNFC instance has access to a certain resource, as a prerequisite to instantiation. The attributes virtualComputeDesc and virtualStorageDesc define the resources required for instantiation of the VNFC instance. Defines the virtualised resources monitoring parameters on VDU level. Describes the information (e.g. URL) about the scripts, config drive metadata, etc. which can be used during Vdu booting process. Describes the configurable properties of all VNFC instances based on this VDU. Contains a string or a URL to a file contained in the VNF package used to customize a virtualised compute resource at boot time. The bootData may contain variable parts that are replaced by deployment specific values before being sent to the VIM. NOTE: The parameters of each variable part shall be declared in the VnfLcmOperationsConfiguration information element as "volatile" parameters available to the bootData template during the respective VNF lifecycle management operation execution and/or in the extension attribute of the VnfInfoModifiableAttributes information element as "persistent" parameters available to the bootData template during the lifetime of the VNF instance. For VNF lifecycle management operations resulting in multiple VNFC instantiations, the VNFM supports the means to provide the appropriate parameters to appropriate VNFC instances Experimental Contains a string or a URL to a file contained in the VNF package used to customize a virtualised compute resource at boot time. The bootData may contain variable parts that are replaced by deployment specific values before being sent to the VIM. NOTE: The parameters of each variable part shall be declared in the VnfLcmOperationsConfiguration information element as "volatile" parameters available to the bootData template during the respective VNF lifecycle management operation execution and/or in the extension attribute of the VnfInfoModifiableAttributes information element as "persistent" parameters available to the bootData template during the lifetime of the VNF instance. For VNF lifecycle management operations resulting in multiple VNFC instantiations, the VNFM supports the means to provide the appropriate parameters to appropriate VNFC instances Experimental Describes network connectivity between a VNFC instance (based on this Vdu) and an internal Virtual Link (VL). Describes CPU, Memory and acceleration requirements of the Virtualisation Container realising this Vdu. Describes storage requirements for a VirtualStorage instance attached to the virtualisation container created from virtualComputeDesc defined for this Vdu. Describes the software image which is directly loaded on the virtualisation container realising this Vdu. NOTE: More software images can be attached to the virtualisation container using VirtualStorage resources. A Vnfd, or VNF Descriptor, is template which describes a VNF in terms of deployment and operational behaviour requirements. It also contains connectivity, interface and virtualised resource requirements. Provider of the VNF and of the VNFD. Name to identify the VNF Product. Invariant for the VNF Product lifetime. Software version of the VNF. This is changed when there is any change to the software that is included in the VNF Package. Identifies the version of the VNFD. Human readable name for the VNF Product. Can change during the VNF Product lifetime. Human readable description of the VNF Product. Can change during the VNF Product lifetime. Identifies VNFM(s) compatible with the VNF described in this version of the VNFD. Use the name of micro-service of the vnfm drive. For vendor specific VNFM, the value composes of "vendorname" and "vnfmdriver", e.g. "mycompanyvnfmdriver"; for generic VNFM, the value is "gvnfmdriver". Information about localization languages of the VNF (includes e.g. strings in the VNFD). Refer to ISO936 https://www.iso.org/iso-639-language-codes.html NOTE: This allows to provide one or more localization languages to support selecting a specific localization language at VNF instantiation time. Defines the VNF-specific extension and metadata attributes of the VnfInfo that are writeable via the ModifyVnfInfo operation. Identifier of this VNFD information element. This attribute shall be globally unique. NOTE: The VNFD Identifier shall be used as the unique identifier of the VNF Package that contains this VNFD. Any modification of the content of the VNFD or the VNF Package shall result in a new VNFD Identifier. Information about localization languages of the VNF (includes e.g. strings in the VNFD). Refer to ISO936 https://www.iso.org/iso-639-language-codes.html NOTE: This allows to provide one or more localization languages to support selecting a specific localization language at VNF instantiation time. Describes the configurable properties of the VNF (e.g. related to auto scaling and auto healing). Includes a list of events and corresponding management scripts performed for the VNF. File path of the vendor specified logo. UUID of the vendor guide/documentation which is attached to VNF and can be downloaded from the model. Virtualisation Deployment Unit. Describes external interface(s) exposed by this VNF enabling connection with a VL. Describes specific DF(s) of a VNF with specific requirements for capacity and performance. Declares the VNF indicators that are supported by this VNF. Defines descriptors of virtual compute resources to be used by the VNF. Defines descriptors of virtual storage resources to be used by the VNF. Reserved IP Address for VNF which is not bounded to any specific VNFC, but assigned manually from outside and potentially shared as a floating IP among VNFCs. Describes the associated elements of a VNFD for a certain purpose during VNF lifecycle management. Defines descriptors of software images to be used by the VNF. NOTE: This shall be used to describe both the software image loaded on the virtualization container used to realize a VDU and the software images to be stored on VirtualStorage resources (e.g., volumes) attached to a virtualization container. Represents the type of network connectivity mandated by the VNF provider between two or more CPs which includes at least one internal CP. The SwImageDesc information element describes requested additional capability for a particular VDU. Such a capability may be for acceleration or specific tasks. Storage not necessarily related to the compute, may be Network Attached Storage (NAS) The identifier of this software image. The name of this software image. The version of this software image. The checksum of the software image file. The container format describes the container file format in which software image is provided. The disk format of a software image is the format of the underlying disk image. The minimal RAM requirement for this software image. The value of the "size" attribute of VirtualMemoryData of the Vdu referencing this SwImageDesc shall not be smaller than the value of minRam. The minimal disk size requirement for this software image. The value of the "size of storage" attribute of the VirtualStorageDesc referencing this SwImageDesc shall not be smaller than the value of minDisk. The size of the software image. Identifies the operating system used in the software image. This attribute may also identify if a 32 bit or 64 bit software image is used. Identifies the virtualisation environments (e.g. hypervisor) compatible with this software image. This is a reference to the actual software image. The reference can be relative to the root of the VNF Package or can be a URL The VduProfile describes additional instantiation data for a given VDU used in a DF. Minimum number of instances of the VNFC based on this VDU that is permitted to exist for this flavour. Shall be zero or greater. Maximum number of instances of the VNFC based on this VDU that is permitted to exist for this flavour. Shall be zero or greater. Specifies affinity or anti-affinity rules applicable between the virtualization containers (e.g. virtual machines) to be created based on this VDU. When the cardinality is greater than 1, both affinity rule(s) and anti-affinity rule(s) with different scopes (e.g. "Affinity with the scope resource zone and anti-affinity with the scope NFVI node") are applicable to the virtualization containers (e.g. virtual machines) to be created based on this VDU. When the cardinality is greater than 1, both affinity rule(s) and anti-affinity rule(s) with different scopes (e.g. "Affinity with the scope resource zone and anti-affinity with the scope NFVI node") are applicable to the virtualization containers (e.g. virtual machines) to be created based on this VDU. Identifier(s) of the affinity or anti-affinity group(s) the VDU belongs to. NOTE: Each identifier references an affinity or anti-affinity group which expresses affinity or anti-affinity relationships between the virtualisation container(s) (e.g. virtual machine(s)) to be created using this VDU and the virtualisation container(s) (e.g. virtual machine(s)) to be created using other VDU(s) in the same group. Watchdog action to be triggered by the VIM for the VNF in case the heart beat fails, e.g. reset or hard shutdown, etc. Timeout value for the VNFM to wait before the successful booting up of the VDU. VNFD needs to specify the security group name {security_groups} for each VDU. Additional expansion requirements for Infrastructure layer, e.g. HA property (Host Aggregate ). The VirtualComputeDesc information element supports the specification of requirements related to virtual compute resources. Unique identifier of this VirtualComputeDesc in the VNFD Specifies requirements for additional capabilities. These may be for a range of purposes. One example is acceleration related capabilities. Specifies compute requirements. The virtual memory of the virtualised compute. The virtual CPU(s) of the virtualised compute. The associated logical node requirements. The local or ephemeral disk(s) of the virtualised compute. The VirtualStorageDesc information element supports the specifications of requirements related to persistent virtual storage resources. Ephemeral virtual storage is specified in VirtualComputeDesc information element. Unique identifier of this VirtualStorageDesc in the VNFD. Type of virtualised storage resource (BLOCK, OBJECT, FILE). Size of virtualised storage resource (e.g. size of volume, in GB). Specifies the details of block storage. It shall be present when the "typeOfStorage" attribute is set to "BLOCK". It shall be absent otherwise. Specifies the details of object storage. It shall be present when the "typeOfStorage" attribute is set to "OBJECT". It shall be absent Specifies the details of file storage. It shall be present when the "typeOfStorage" attribute is set to "FILE". It shall be absent otherwise. Indicating whether a vDisk is a shared volume in VNFD. Describe storage Qos requirements. Describe volume type. A VduCpd information element is a type of Cpd and describes network connectivity between a VNFC instance (based on this VDU) and an internal VL. Bitrate requirement on this CP. Describes the name of the vNIC this CP attaches to, e.g. eth0. It will be configured during the Vdu booting process. Describes the order to create the vNIC within the scope of this Vdu. Describes the type of the vNIC this CP attaches to. Specifies requirements on a virtual network interface realising the CPs instantiated from this CPD. Define the port anti-affinity group ID for each SR-IOV type vNIC. Multiple vNICs in the same anti-affinity group must belong to the same virtual network, and the number of vNICs in the same anti-affinity group cannot exceed two. VNFD needs to specify the security group name {security_groups} for each vNic. VNFD needs to specify whether to enable security group for the vNic. Describe the Qos requirements of the VduCpd. Reference(s) of the Virtual Link Descriptor to which this Connection Point Descriptor(s) connects. For specifying floating IP(s) to be shared among Cpds, which are reserved for vnfReservedCpd described in the VNFD. The VnfDf describes a specific deployment version of a VNF. Identifier of this DF within the VNFD. Human readable description of the DF. This attribute references the "instantiationLevel" entry which defines the default instantiation level for this DF. It shall be present if there are multiple "instantiationLevel" entries. Specifies the virtualised resource related performance metrics to be tracked by the VNFM. Defines the internal VLD along with additional data which is used in this DF. NOTE 1: This allows for different VNF internal topologies between DFs. NOTE 2: virtualLinkProfile needs to be provided for all VLs that the CPs of the VDUs in the VDU profiles connect to. Describes the various levels of resources that can be used to instantiate the VNF using this flavour. Examples: Small, Medium, Large. If there is only one "instantiationLevel" entry, it shall be treated as the default instantiation level for this DF. Specifies affinity or anti-affinity relationship applicable between the virtualisation containers (e.g. virtual machines) to be created using different VDUs or internal VLs to be created using different VnfVirtualLinkDesc(s) in the same affinity or anti-affinity group. NOTE: In the present specification, including either VDU(s) or VnfVirtualLinkDesc(s) into the same affinity or anti-affinity group is supported. Extension to support including both VDU(s) and VnfVirtualLinkDesc(s) into the same affinity or anti-affinity group is left for future specification. The scaling aspects supported by this DF of the VNF. scalingAspect shall be present if the VNF supports scaling. Describes additional instantiation data for the VDUs used in this flavor. Determine where VNFC's (VDU's) are placed with respect to the VNF BaseConfigGroup may set Access Control Lists (ACL's) and establish security groups and server groups. BaseConfigGroup creates/establishs storage for the VM's (OpenStack Cinder). BaseConfigGroup may establish internal networks such as OAM (VNF Mgmt) or MNS (Maintenance & Surveillance) established. DeploymentGroup provides the minimum viable VDU and associated VNFC configuration for a useable VNF. Identifies the vaious scaling groups within the VNF which identify which vnfcs that need to be scaled together. Declares the VNF indicators that are supported by this VNF (specific to this DF). Specifies requirements on a virtual network interface realising the CPs instantiated from this CPD. NOTE: In case of referencing an intCpd via its identifier, the virtualNetworkInterfaceRequirements attribute of the referenced intCpd applies. A VnfExtCpd is a type of Cpd and describes an external interface, a.k.a external CP, exposed by this VNF enabling connection with a VL. When the VnfExtCpd is mapped to a VduCpd, the values for the attributes type, subType and description shall be identical for both elements. A VNFD Element Group is a mechanism for associating elements of a VNFD (Vdus and VnfVirtualLinkDesc(s)) for a certain purpose, for example, scaling aspects. A given element can belong to multiple groups. Unique identifier of this group in the VNFD. Human readable description of the group. References to Vdus that are part of this group. References to VnfVirtualLinkDesc that are part of this group. The VnfIndicator information element defines the indicator the VNF supports. Unique identifier. The human readable name of the VnfIndicator. Defines the allowed values or value ranges of this indicator. Describe the source of the indicator. This tells the consumer where to send the subscription request. The VirtualLinkDescFlavour describes additional instantiation data for a given internal VL used in a DF. QoS of the VL. Identifies a flavour within a VnfVirtualLinkDesc. This class specifies requirements on a virtual network interface. Provides a human readable name for the requirement. Provides a human readable description of the requirement. Indicates whether fulfilling the constraint is mandatory (TRUE) for successful operation or desirable (FALSE). The network interface requirements. An element from an array of key-value pairs that articulate the network interface deployment requirements This references (couples) the CPD with any logical node I/O requirements (for network devices) that may have been created. Linking these attributes is necessary so that so that I/O requirements that need to be articulated at the logical node level can be associated with the network interface requirements associated with the CPD. The InstantiationLevel class describes a given level of resources to be instantiated within a DF in term of the number of VNFC instances to be created from each VDU. All the VDUs referenced in the level shall be part of the corresponding DF and their number shall be within the range (min/max) for this DF. Uniquely identifies a level with the DF. Human readable description of the level. Represents for each aspect the scale level that corresponds to this instantiation level. scaleInfo shall be present if the VNF supports scaling. Indicates the number of instance of this VDU to deploy for this level. Specifies bitrate requirements applicable to virtual links created from particular virtual link descriptors for this level. NOTE: If not present, it is assumed that the bitrate requirements can be derived from those specified in the VduCpd instances applicable to the internal VL. If present in both the InstantiationLevel and the VduCpd instances applicable to the internal VL, the highest value takes precedence. The VduLevel information element indicates for a given VDU in a given level the number of instances to deploy. Number of instances of VNFC based on this VDU to deploy for an instantiation level or for a scaling delta. Uniquely identifies a VDU. Every Vnf contains a BaseConfigGroup. BaseConfigGroup may set Access Control Lists (ACL's) and establish security groups and server groups. BaseConfigGroup reates/establishs storage for the VM's (OpenStack Cinder). BaseConfigGroup may establish internal networks such as OAM (VNF Mgmt) or MNS (Maintenance & Surveillance) established. A very simple VNF may only have a BaseConfig VnfElementGroup. DeploymentGroup provides the minimum viable VDU and associated VNFC configuration for a useable VNF. I can have a small, medium, large deployment configuration. Homing selects what cloud selection strategy will be used. HomingGroup is used to determine where VNF's within a given group are placed with respect to a service component. Homing strategy is as follows: Colocation - members of the group share the same cloud region (VIM Domain) isolation - members of the group do not share the same cloud region. The homing strategy can be one of the following: Exclusivity - Resources within the cloud region are exclusive to the group Inclusively - Resources are co-located in the same cloud-region. Diversity - Resources are geo-diverse ( cannot be co-located). Describes an external CP exposed by a VNF. An implementation of an NF that can be deployed on a Network Function Virtualisation Infrastructure (NFVI). identifier of the VNF instance name of the VNF instance. Multiple names are possible. name to identify the VNF Product, invariant for the VNF Product lifetime description of the VNF instance provider of the VNF model identifier of the VNF model version of the VNF model Software version of the VNF. This is changed when there is any change to the software that is included in the VNF package identifier of the specific VNF package on which the VNF instance is based availability zone information of the VNF instance indicator for whether the resource is considered operational. Valid values are in-service-path and out-of-service-path. whether the VNF instance is instantiated oam ip address, ipv4 oam ip address, ipv6 information specific to an instantiated VNF instance, e.g., vm information whether the VNF instance is in maintenance mode, if yes, DCAE will not observe alarms/traps, etc. whether closed loop function is enabled whether this VNF is accessed using SSH indicator for whether autoHeal and autoScale is enabled String assigned to this model used for naming purpose. Identifier of the policy which has the naming logic for this VNF instance Identifier of the policy which provides homing conditions. Generic description of the type of network function English description of network function that the specific VNF deployment is providing. Role in the network this model will be providing Whether closed loop capabilities are enabled for this or not. Relatonship to the NF components that are part of this VNF. Relationship to the VNF descriptor Relationship to VnfVirtualLink IP address between VNF and VNFM. An internal component of a VNF providing a VNF Provider a defined sub-set of that VNF's functionality, with the main characteristic that a single instance of this component maps 1:1 against a single Virtualisation Container. identifier of the NFC instance short code of the NFC instance description of the NFC instance identifier of the model of the NFC instance layer-3 interface addresses, ipv4 layer-3 interface addresses, ipv6 operating status of the VM valid value example: STARTED (POWER_ON), STOPPED (POWER_OFF) whether the NFC instance is in maintenance mode, if yes, DCAE will not observe alarms/traps, etc. whether closed loop function is enabled An intelligent or human readable name of the vnfc instance. Multiple names are possible. Reference to the connection points of the vnfc Identifier of the policy which has the naming logic for this VNFC instance English description of network function component that the specific VNFC deployment is providing. indicator for whether the resource is considered operational. Valid values are in-service-path and out-of-service-path. whether the VNFC instance is instantiated Whether closed loop capabilities are enabled for this or not. Reference to the VDU An Anfd (Allotted Network Function) is a network function provided (or allotted) by some service instance. The allotted network function may be incorporated into the topology of some consuming service like other network functions. Note: the allotted network function is no longer derived from some allotted resource parent. The VirtualLinkProfile describes additional instantiation data for a given VL used in a DF. Uniquely identifies this VirtualLinkProfile class Specifies affinity or anti-affinity rules applicable between the VLs based on this VnfVirtualLinkDesc. When the cardinality is greater than 1, both affinity rule(s) and anti-affinity rule(s) with different scopes are applicable to the VLs based on this VnfVirtualLinkDesc. Specifies the minimum bitrate requirements for a VL instantiated according to this profile. Specifies the minimum bitrate requirements for a VL instantiated according to this profile. Identifies a flavour within the VnfVirtualLinkDesc. Identifies an affinity or anti-affinity group the VLs instantiated according to the VlProfile belong to. NOTE : Each identifier references an affinity or anti-affinity group which expresses affinity or anti-affinity relationship between the VL(s) using this VirtualLinkProfile and the VL(s) using other VirtualLinkProfile(s) in the same group. Uniquely references a VLD. Specifies the protocol data for a VL instantiated according to this profile. Cardinality 0 is used when no protocol data needs to be specified. The ScalingAspect class describes the details of an aspect used for horizontal scaling. Unique identifier of this aspect in the VNFD. Human readable name of the aspect. Human readable description of the aspect. A ScalingGroup determines which VNFC's (VDU's) are scaled together based on demand. The Vnffgd class specifies a topology of connectivity of a NS and optionally forwarding rules applicable to the traffic conveyed over this topology. Identifier of this Vnffgd information element. It uniquely identifies a VNFFGD. References the VNFD of a constituent VNF. NOTE 1: The list of constituent VNFs, PNFs, and nested NS SAPs of a VNFFG can be identical to the list of constituent VNFs, PNFs and nested NSs of the parent NSD, or can be a subset of it. NOTE 2: The presence of a VNFD or PNFD identifier in a VNFFGD does not imply that all connection points instantiated from all embedded CPDs are connected to the VNFFG instantiated using the VNFFGD. A reference to a pool of descriptors of connection points attached to one of the constituent VNFs and PNFs and/or one of the SAPs of the parent NS or of a nested NS. The network forwarding path associated to the VNFFG. References the PNFD of a constituent PNF. NOTE 1 : The list of constituent VNFs, PNFs, and nested NS SAPs of a VNFFG can be identical to the list of constituent VNFs, PNFs and nested NSs of the parent NSD, or can be a subset of it. NOTE 2: The presence of a VNFD or PNFD identifier in a VNFFGD does not imply that all connection points instantiated from all embedded CPDs are connected to the VNFFG instantiated using the VNFFGD. The VnfProfile class specifies a profile for instantiating VNFs of a particular NS DF according to a specific VNFD and VNF DF. Identifier of this vnfProfile class. It uniquely identifies a VnfProfile. Identifier of the instantiation level of the VNF DF to be used for instantiation. If not present, the default instantiation level as declared in the VNFD shall be used. Minimum number of instances of the VNF based on this VNFD that is permitted to exist for this VnfProfile. Maximum number of instances of the VNF based on this VNFD that is permitted to exist for this VnfProfile. Specifies affinity and anti-affinity rules applicable between VNF instances created from this profile. Identifier(s) of the affinity or anti-affinity group(s) the VnfProfile belongs to. NOTE: Each identifier references an affinity or anti-affinity group which expresses affinity or anti-affinity relationships between the VNF instance(s) created using this VnfProfile and the VNF instance(s) created using other VnfProfile(s) in the same group. Defines the connection information of the VNF, it contains connection relationship between a VNF connection point and a NS virtual Link. Identifies a flavour within the VNFD. Reference to the VNFD. A graph of logical links connecting NF nodes,where at least one node is a VNF, for the purpose of describing traffic flow between these network functions Identier of this Vnffg class. Identifier of the constituent NFs of the VNFFG Identifier(s) of the constituent VL instance(s) of the VNFFG. Identifiers of the CP instances attached to the constituent VNFs and PNFs or the sap instances of the VNFFG. NOTE: It indicates an exhaustive list of all the CP instances and SAP instances of the VNFFG. Information on the NFPs of this VNFFG. A software image This information element describes compute, memory and I/O requirements that are to be associated with the logical node of infrastructure. The logical node requirements are a sub-component of the VDU level requirements. As an example for illustration purposes, a logical node correlates to the concept of a NUMA cell in libvirt terminology. Identifies this set of logical node requirements. The logical node-level compute, memory and I/O requirements. An array of key-value pairs that articulate the deployment requirements. This could include the number of CPU cores on this logical node, a memory configuration specific to a logical node (e.g. such as available in the Linux kernel via the libnuma library) or a requirement related to the association of an I/O device with the logical node. Represents the type of network connectivity mandated by the VNF vendor between two or more Connection Points which includes at least one Internal Connection Point. Specifies the virtualised resource related performance metrics on VLD level to be tracked by the VNFM. Describes a specific flavour of the VL with specific bitrate requirements. An AllottedLink is a link provided (or allotted) by some service instance. The Allottedlink may be incorporated into the topology of some consuming service like other links. This information element describes compute, memory and I/O requirements that are to be associated with the logical node of infrastructure. The logical node requirements are a sub-component of the VDU level requirements. As an example for illustration purposes, a logical node correlates to the concept of a NUMA cell in libvirt terminology. The logical node-level compute, memory and I/O requirements. An array of key-value pairs that articulate the deployment requirements. This could include the number of CPU cores on this logical node, a memory configuration specific to a logical node (e.g. such as available in the Linux kernel via the libnuma library) or a requirement related to the association of an I/O device with the logical node. This information element describes requested additional capability for a particular VDU. Such a capability may be for acceleration or specific tasks. Indicates whether the requested additional capability is mandatory for successful operation. Identifies a requested additional capability for the VDU. Identifies the minimum version of the requested additional capability. Identifies the preferred version of the requested additional capability. Identifies specific attributes, dependent on the requested additional capability type. Amount of virtual Memory (e.g. in MB). The memory core oversubscription policy in terms of virtual memory to physical memory on the platform. The cardinality can be 0 during the allocation request, if no particular value is requested. Array of key-value pair requirements on the memory for the VDU. It specifies the memory allocation to be cognisant of the relevant process/core allocation. The cardinality can be 0 during the allocation request, if no particular value is requested. The VirtualCpuData information element supports the specification of requirements related to virtual CPU(s) of a virtual compute resource. CPU architecture type. Examples are x86, ARM. The cardinality can be 0 during the allocation request, if no particular CPU architecture type is requested. Number of virtual CPUs. Minimum virtual CPU clock rate (e.g. in MHz). The cardinality can be 0 during the allocation request, if no particular value is requested. The CPU core oversubscription policy e.g. the relation of virtual CPU cores to physical CPU cores/threads. The cardinality can be 0 during the allocation request, if no particular value is requested. Array of key-value pair requirements on the Compute (CPU) for the VDU. The virtual CPU pinning configuration for the virtualised compute resource. The VirtualCpuPinningData information element supports the specification of requirements related to the virtual CPU pinning configuration of a virtual compute resource. The policy can take values of "static" or "dynamic". In case of "static" the virtual CPU cores are requested to be allocated to logical CPU cores according to the rules defined in virtualCpuPinningRules. In case of "dynamic" the allocation of virtual CPU cores to logical CPU cores is decided by the VIM. (e.g.: SMT (Simultaneous Multi-Threading) requirements). A list of rules that should be considered during the allocation of the virtual CPUs to logical CPUs in case of "static" virtualCpuPinningPolicy. This datatype defines the configurable properties of a VNF (e.g. related to auto scaling and auto healing). For a VNF instance, the value of these properties can be modified by the VNFM It permits to enable (TRUE)/disable (FALSE) the auto-scaling functionality. NOTE: A cardinality of "0" indicates that configuring this present VNF property is not supported. It permits to enable (TRUE)/disable (FALSE) the auto-healing functionality. NOTE: A cardinality of "0" indicates that configuring this present VNF property is not supported. This datatype defines the VNF-specific extension and metadata attributes of the VnfInfo that are writeable via the ModifyVnfInfo operation. "Extension" attributes of VnfInfo that are writeable. Metadata" attributes of VnfInfo that are writeable Describes VNF lifecycle event(s) or an external stimulus detected on a VNFM reference point. Describes the transition VNF lifecycle event(s) that cannot be mapped to any of the enumerated values defined for the event attribute. NOTE: At least one of these two attributes shall be included. Information to locate a VNF LCM script (e.g. written in a DSL as specified in requirement VNF_PACK.LCM.001) triggered to react to one of the events listed in the event attribute. Defines the domain specific language (i.e. the type) of script that is provided. Types of scripts could include bash, python, etc. Array of KVP requirements with the key as the parameter name and the value as the parameter that need to be passed as an input to the script. NOTE: The scriptInput values are passed to the scripts in addition to the parameters received in the operation invocation request or indicator value change. Specifies the virtualized resource related performance metric to be tracked by the VNFM, e.g. for auto-scaling purposes. The VNFM collects the values of performance metrics identified by this information element from the VIM(s) using one or more locally initiated PM Jobs. These values can be used as inputs to auto-scaling rules. Unique identifier of the monitoring parameter. Human readable name of the monitoring parameter. Identifies the virtualized resource performance metric. An attribute that describes the recommended periodicity at which to collect the performance information. VNFM determines if this parameter is considered. The vendor may provide this information as a guidance for creating PmJobs if needed. NOTE: The MANO or NFVI may not support the recommended collectionPeriod based on their functionalities, and can reject the requests based on the recommended collectionPeriod in this case. This datatype defines the configurable properties of a VNFC. For a VNFC instance, the value of these properties can be modified through the VNFM. It provides VNFC configurable properties that can be modified using the ModifyVnfInfo operation. Describes the type of VNIC to which a CP attaches. The ScaleInfo information element represents a scale level for a particular scaling aspect. Reference to the scaling aspect. The scale level, greater than or equal to 0 Defines the CPU pinning policy. Describes VNF lifecycle event(s) or an external stimulus detected on a VNFM reference point. Describes the source of the indicator. Specifies the periodicity at which the producer will collect performance information. The VirtualLinkBitRateLevel information element specifies bitrate requirements applicable to a virtual link instantiated from a particular VnfVirtualLinkDesc. Provisioning status, used as a trigger for operational monitoring of this resource by service assurance systems. Indicator for whether the resource is considered operational. Valid values are in-service-path and out-of-service-path. The VnfIndicatorData datatype identifies a VNF indicator in a VNFD. Identifies a VNFD. Identifies a VNF indicator within the VNFD. The VnfToLevelMapping datatype specifies the profile to be used for a VNF involved in a given NS level and the required number of instances. Identifies the profile to be used for a VNF involved in an NS level. Specifies the number of VNF instances required for an NS level. NOTE 1: It shall be in the range of minNumberOfInstances-maxNumberOfInstances, as specified in the referenced VnfProfile. NOTE 2: When the corresponding NS level is used in the context of NS instantiation, the numberOfInstances attribute specifies the number of VNF instances to be deployed. NOTE 3: When the corresponding NS level is used in the context of NS scaling, the numberOfInstances attribute does not specify the number of VNF instances to be added/removed when reaching that NS scale level. The actual number of VNF instances to be added/removed can be derived by subtracting the numberOfInstances declared in the source NS scale level from the numberOfInstances declared in the target NS level of the scaling request. Specifies the details of the block storage resource. Size of virtualised storage resource in GB. An array of key-value pairs that articulate the storage deployment requirements. Indicates if the storage supports rdma. Software image to be loaded on the VirtualStorage resource created based on this VirtualStorageDesc. Shall be absent when used for virtual disks. The ObjectStorageData information element specifies the details of object storage resource. Max size of virtualised storage resource in GB. The FileStorageData information element specifies the details of file storage resource. Size of virtualised storage resource in GB. The shared file system protocol (e.g. NFS, CIFS). Reference of the internal VLD which this file storage connects to. The attached VDUs shall connect to the same internal VLD. Unique identifier of the storage Qos in VNFD. Name of storage QoS. Consumer type. Describe qualities of Qos：total_bytes_sec、total_iops_sec. Unique identifier of volume type in VNFD. Name of volume type. Backend volume name of cinder. Specifies the L2 protocol data for this virtual link. Shall be present when the associatedLayerProtocol attribute indicates a L2 protocol and shall be absent otherwise. Specifies the L3 protocol data for this virtual link. Shall be present when the associatedLayerProtocol attribute indicates a L3 protocol and shall be absent otherwise. The QoS as applied to the vnf.