OpenStack for Architects - Second Edition

Handling the rest of NFV management with NFVO and VNFM

NFVO or NFV Orchestrator is the function for onboarding new network services and virtual network function solutions, life cycle management, resource management, as well as validation and authorization of NFV infrastructure requests. The VNFM or VNF Manager is the overlord of the VNF instances. It handles the coordination of configuration and event reporting between the NFVI and the E/NMS or element or network management system.

The OpenStack Tacker project was created to take on both of these efforts. Tacker is based on the ETSI MANO Architectural Framework (see the previously mentioned image) and provides a functional stack of tools to orchestrate network services end to end using virtual ...