Users Guide

Managing Virtualized Network Functions | Virtualization Management
1004 OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide
Once you instantiate a complex VNF (stage and deploy), you can perform daily operations on the
VNF, such as
monitoring alarms , updating virtual network functions (scale in/out), and
undeploying virtual network functions .
Instantiating a Standalone VNF Record
This section shows how to instantiate a standalone Virtualized Network Function (VNF) record.
The example standalone VNF descriptor used contains all lifecycle events (LCEs) required to
create a set of Virtualization Deployment Units (VDUs) and contains the networks required to
interconnect VDUs in the OpenStack environment. In this example, only a VNF record is required
because there are no other VNFs required to interconnect with the VNF descriptor, and because
the same target OpenStack project space contains all the VDUs.
Instantiate a standalone VNF record by:
•
Staging a Standalone VNF Record
• Deploying a Standalone VNF Record
• Verifying VM Network Connections
Staging a Standalone VNF Record
The staging process creates and stages a Virtualized Network Function (VNF) record based on the
selected descriptor’s information found and then reserves resources. The staging process does not
deploy the VNF record to the OpenStack controller.
Stage a standalone VNF record from the Virtual Network Function Records portlet as follows.
NOTE:
The portlet’s location depends on your company’s configuration.
1
Right-click > New.
The Stage VNF window displays a list of descriptor entities.
2 Select the service you want to instantiate.