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The present document specifies performance benchmarking metrics for virtual switching, with the goal that the metrics will adequately quantify performance gains achieved through virtual switch acceleration conforming to the associated requirements specified herein. The acceleration-related requirements will be applicable to common virtual switching functions across usage models such as packet delivery into VNFs, network overlay and tunnel termination, stateful Network Address Translators (NAT), service chaining, load balancing and, in general, match-action based policies/flows applied to traffic going to/from the VMs. The present document will also provide deployment scenarios with applicability to multiple vendor implementations and recommendations for follow-on proof of concept activities.

The present document specifies functional requirements for both the Virtualised Infrastructure Manager (VIM) and the NFV Infrastructure (NFVI), for NFV acceleration from an infrastructure management perspective. This includes the controlling and management of acceleration resources, e.g. allocation, release and discovery of acceleration resources. The present document also identifies the corresponding impacts on VIM related specifications regarding functional requirements ETSI GS NFV-IFA 010 and reference points (ETSI GS NFV-IFA 005 and ETSI GS NFV-IFA 006).

The present document specifies the interfaces supported over the Or-Vnfm reference point of the Network Functions Virtualisation Management and Orchestration (NFV-MANO) architectural framework ETSI GS NFV-MAN 001 as well as the information elements exchanged over those interfaces.

The present document specifies the interfaces supported over the Or-Vnfm reference point of the Network Functions Virtualisation Management and Orchestration (NFV-MANO) architectural framework ETSI GS NFV-MAN 001 as well as the information elements exchanged over those interfaces.

Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Release 2; Management and Orchestration; Os-Ma-Nfvo reference point - Interface and Information Model Specification

The present document defines the interfaces supported over the Os-Ma-nfvo reference point of the NFV-MANO architectural framework as well as the information elements exchanged over those interfaces.

The present document defines the requirements to interface the Security Control to NFV-MANO as described in ETSI GS NFV-SEC 013 and the LI Controller in ETSI GR NFV-SEC 011. The present document identifies the extensions to the NFV-MANO architecture related to security management and monitoring. Multiple trust domains are considered.

The present document specifies the performance measurements that are exposed on various NFV MANO reference points (e.g. Or-Vnfm, Ve-Vnfm-em, Vi-Vnfm, Or-Vi and Os-Ma-nfvo). ETSI GS NFV-TST 008 specifies the Network Function Virtualisation Infrastructure (NFVI) performance metrics that will be reported to Virtualised Infrastructure Manager (VIM). VIM processes the performance metrics received from NFVI to generate performance measurements to be sent to NFV Orchestrator (NFVO) and VNF Manager (VNFM). VNFM and NFVO conduct further processing to generate performance measurements.

The present document specifies the interfaces for management of multi-site connectivity services. The services are produced by a WAN Infrastructure Manager (WIM). The present document also describes the operations and the information elements that are exchanged over these interfaces.

The present document specifies requirements and templates for describing Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Network Services (NSs) in the form of meta-data.

The present document reviews virtualisation technologies and studies their impact on the NFV architectural framework and specifications. It also provides an analysis of the pros and cons of these technologies.

The present document specifies the interfaces used for acceleration resource management on the Nf-Vi reference point of the NFV MANO framework, as well as the information elements exchanged over those interfaces.