Management and Orchestration
Virtualized Network Services
Managing and coordinating resources and networks needs a special entity.
NFV Orchestrator.
A powerful tool.
Spans large numbers of networks.
… software elements.
… hardware platforms
Needs to be able to work with many different standards.
ETSI
NFV MANO
Framework for managing and orchestrating all resources in the cloud datacenter.
Includes computing, networking, storage and VM resources.
Objective:
Allow flexible on-boarding of network services.
Handle network component spin-up.
The standard composes 3 elements:
NFVO – NFV Orchestrator.
VNF Manager – VNFM.
Virtualized Infrastructure Manager – VIM.
OSM - Open Source MANO
Open source NFV Management and Orchestration stack.
Uses well-established open-source tools and working procedures.
Complements the standardization work.
ONAP – Open Network Automation
Common platform for end-to-end service and infrastructure management and provisioning.
Support from major vendors.
Supports TOSCA and YANG unified design specifications.
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