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.