VNF Lifecycle Operation Granting interface

Grainting interface for giving VNFM a permission from NFVO to enable to run VNF lifecycle operations and its configurations as defined in ETSI NFV-SOL 003 v2.6.1 for so called v1 APIs, or NFV-SOL 003 v3.3.1 for v2 APIs.

Granting Interface Support

No all the APIs of v1 and v2 have been implemented in Tacker’s granting interface yet. The purpose of this section is to show the progress of implementation of the APIs.

  • Name: Grants
    Description: Request a grant
    Method type: POST
    URL for the resource: /grant/v1/grants
    Request:

    Data type

    Cardinality

    Description

    GrantRequest

    1

    Parameters for requesting Grants resource.

    Attribute name

    Data type

    Cardinality

    Support in v1 API

    Support in v2 API

    vnfInstanceId

    Identifier

    1

    Yes

    Yes

    vnfLcmOpOccId

    Identifier

    1

    Yes

    Yes

    vnfdId

    Identifier

    1

    Yes

    Yes

    dstVnfdId

    Identifier

    0..1

    No

    Yes

    flavourId

    Identifier

    0..1

    Yes

    Yes

    operation

    GrantedLcmOperationType

    1

    Yes

    Yes

    isAutomaticInvocation

    Boolean

    1

    Yes

    Yes

    instantiationLevelId

    Identifier

    0..1

    No

    Yes

    addResources

    ResourceDefinition

    0..N

    Yes

    Yes

    tempResources

    ResourceDefinition

    0..N

    No

    No

    removeResources

    ResourceDefinition

    0..N

    Yes

    Yes

    updateResources

    ResourceDefinition

    0..N

    No

    Yes

    placementConstraints

    PlacementConstraint

    0..N

    Yes

    Yes

    vimConstraints

    VimConstraint

    0..N

    No

    No

    additionalParams

    KeyValuePairs

    0..1

    No

    Yes

    _links

    Structure

    1

    Yes

    Yes

    >vnfLcmOpOcc

    Link

    1

    Yes

    Yes

    >vnfInstance

    Link

    1

    Yes

    Yes
    Response:

    Data type

    Cardinality

    Response Codes

    Description

    Grant

    1
    Success 201
    Error 400 401 403

    The grant has been created successfully (synchronous mode).

    Attributename

    Datatype

    Cardinality

    Support in v1 API

    Support in v2 API

    id

    Identifier

    1

    Yes

    Yes

    vnfInstanceId

    Identifier

    1

    Yes

    Yes

    vnfLcmOpOccId

    Identifier

    1

    Yes

    Yes

    vimConnections

    VimConnectionInfo

    0..N

    Yes

    No

    vimConnectionInfo

    map(VimConnectionInfo)

    0..N

    No

    Yes

    zones

    ZoneInfo

    0..N

    Yes

    Yes

    zoneGroups

    ZoneGroupInfo

    0..N

    No

    No

    addResources

    GrantInfo

    0..N

    Yes

    Yes

    tempResources

    GrantInfo

    0..N

    No

    No

    removeResources

    GrantInfo

    0..N

    Yes

    Yes

    updateResources

    GrantInfo

    0..N

    No

    Yes

    vimAssets

    Structure

    0..1

    Yes

    Yes

    >computeResourceFlavours

    VimComputeResourceFlavour

    0..N

    Yes

    Yes

    >softwareImages

    VimSoftwareImage

    0..N

    Yes

    Yes

    >snapshotResources

    VimSnapshotResource

    0..N

    No

    No

    extVirtualLinks

    ExtVirtualLinkData

    0..N

    No

    Yes

    extManagedVirtualLinks

    ExtManagedVirtualLinkData

    0..N

    No

    Yes

    additionalParams

    KeyValuePairs

    0..1

    Yes

    Yes

    _links

    Structure

    1

    Yes

    Yes

    >self

    Link

    1

    Yes

    Yes

    >vnfLcmOpOcc

    Link

    1

    Yes

    Yes

    >vnfInstance

    Link

    1

    Yes

    Yes