This document provides guidance in architecting a Greenfield cloud solution to support Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) based on VMware best practice and real-world scenarios. The platform dramatically simplifies data center operations, delivering enhanced agility, rapid innovation, better economics and scale.
The VMware vCloud NFV platform supports Virtual Network Functions (VNF) workloads that run on a VMware solution. The solution contains components that are aligned to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) NFVI Architecture Framework1.
These components must be integrated to work ;well together. The components range from compute, storage and network devices to management and monitoring services. Each of the components has numerous potentially valid configurations, but only a few of these configurations result in an integrated, functional system that meets business and technical requirements, and aligns with the ETSI NFVI Architectural Framework.
The following components of the ETSI NFVI Architectural Framework are addressed in this document:
- NFV Infrastructure (NFVI)
- Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM)
- NFVI Operations Management
