Users Guide

Setting Up the Juniper Firefly VNF Package | Configuring Virtualization
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OMNM Resource Configuration Tasks. Once the target VM in the OpenStack environment
is fully booted and can respond to SNMP and CLI requests from the management system, post
discovery tasks are run.
For more details about the JuniperFirefly_Discovery profile and the tasks that run, see
Discovery
Profiles
on page 842.
Preparing an Image
Before you can discover and manage a Virtualized Network Functionality (VNF) resource from the
OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM) application, you need to:
1 Set up your OpenStack environment by preparing the Firefly VIM image with the necessary
configuration.
2 Create a software image record from the OMNM application.
The junos-vsrx-12.1X46-D25.7-domestic.jva file provided by Juniper Networks must be converted
to a qcow2 format before configuration can be performed.
Setting Up Your OpenStack Environment
To set up your OpenStack environment, you need to:
1 Convert the Firefly self-extracting package file (.jva) to a qcow2 file format.
2 Create a project.
3 Deploy the vendor’s base image junos-vsrx-domestic.jva file by uploading it to a target Bare
Metal
OpenStack controller and then converting it to a qcow2 format.
4 Create a flavor representing the smallest supported flavor to use (Figure 17-5). The Juniper
vendor provides the following JUNOS VSRX Version 12.x.x flavor:
5 Make configuration changes to the snapshot image.
6 Create a VM snapshot that is used to create and export a Virtualized Infrastructure Manager
(VIM) software image descriptor within the OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM)
application.
Figure 17-5. Juniper Firefly Flavors Example
Juniper-Firefly-snapshot-2 Flavor Name: cpu-2-ram-2048-
disk-2
CPU – 2, Memory – 2 GB (2048
MB), Disk – 2 GB