Redeploying a network service and its components

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You can redeploy a network service or its component to apply configuration changes, update your software to the latest version, or recover if problems occur.

Note that redeploying may result in short-term interruptions or temporary inoperability. When planning and coordinating redeployment activities, we recommend taking into account your organization's circumstances to minimize the disruptions.

To redeploy a network service or its component, use the following instructions:

• Redeploying a network service.

  Redeployment also lets you fix network service performance issues and eliminate bottlenecks.

  To redeploy a network service:

  1. In the menu, go to the Catalog section.

     The network service management page is displayed.

  2. In the Network services panel, click the settings button next to the network service and in the drop-down list, select Redeploy.
  3. In the confirmation window, click Confirm.

  This starts the redeployment of the network service, which may take several minutes. You can interrupt the deployment by clicking Abort deploy.

• Re-deploying VNFs.

  To redeploy a VNF:

  1. In the menu, go to the Catalog section.

     The network service management page is displayed.

  2. In the Network services panel, select a network service.

     The graphical design tool with the network service topology is displayed.

  3. Click the VNF.

     The settings area is displayed in the lower part of the page. You can expand the settings area to fill the entire page by clicking the expand button .

     By default, the Flavours tab is selected, which displays the flavours of virtual machines for the network function. Flavours are described in the VNF package.

  4. In the upper part of the settings area, click Management and in the drop-down list, select Redeploy VNF.
  5. In the confirmation window, click Confirm.

  This starts the redeployment of the VNF, which may take several minutes. You can interrupt the deployment by clicking Abort deploy.

• Re-deploying VDUs.

  To redeploy a VDU:

  1. In the menu, go to the Catalog section.

     The network service management page is displayed.

  2. In the Network services panel, select a network service.

     The graphical design tool with the network service topology is displayed.

  3. Click the VNF.

     The settings area is displayed in the lower part of the page. You can expand the settings area to fill the entire page by clicking the expand button .

     By default, the Flavours tab is selected, which displays the flavours of virtual machines for the network function. Flavours are described in the VNF package.

  4. Select the VDU management tab.

     A table of VDUs is displayed.

  5. Click Management next to the VDU and in the drop-down list, select Redeploy VDU.
  6. In the confirmation window, click Confirm.

  This starts the redeployment of the VDU, which may take several minutes. You can interrupt the deployment by clicking Abort deploy.