3 VNFM Lifecycle Management Interfaces

The VNFM Lifecycle Management (LCM) interface supports the following operations:

• Create VNF
• Delete VNF
• Modify VNF
• Instantiate VNF
• Query Individual / All VNF(s)
• Scale VNF
  • Scale VNF to Level (Scale Out C Level servers of Signaling VNF)
  • Scale VNF to Arbitrary size (Scale Out C Level servers of Signaling VNF)
• Query Individual / All LCM Operation(s)
• Operate VNF
• Heal VNF
  • Query Heal VNF Requests
• Terminating VNF
• Discover VNF - Not part of ETSI standard
• Change VNFM State
• Query VNFM State
• Subscription API