Managing virtual network functions in the topology
Managing virtual network functions in the topology
To manage a virtual network function, click it in the topology when performing the following actions:
Virtual network function settings are displayed on the following tabs:
- Flavours contains flavours of the virtual network function.
- Connection points contains external connection points of the virtual network function.
- VNF settings contains basic settings of the virtual network function.
- Placement contains placement settings of the virtual network function. You can place a virtual network function in a data center or on a uCPE device. This tab is displayed if you clicked the virtual network function when creating or editing a network service.
The following tabs are displayed if you clicked the virtual network function in the topology of a deployed network service:
- VDU management is a table of VDUs that are part of the virtual network function. Information about VDUs is displayed in the following columns of the table:
- Name is the name of the VDU.
- Instance name is the ID of the VDU instance.
- Mgmt IP is the IP address that the management subnet has assigned to the VDU.
- vCPU is the number of virtual CPU cores assigned to the VDU.
- RAM is the amount of RAM assigned to the VDU.
- Disk is the amount of disk space assigned to the VDU.
- Monitoring contains monitoring results of the virtual network function.
- Problems contains problems that occurred during the operation of the virtual network function. In case of any problems, a red exclamation mark is displayed next to the tab.
Additional tabs may be displayed if you specified any in the VNF descriptor in the user_configurations
block.
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