Configure VNF Connection Points

If you need to specify the ordering among internal or external interfaces, such as to bring up service interfaces in an explicit order during virtual machine instantiation, use the Launchpad Service Composer Editor.

Note: This feature is currently supported only for the OpenStack VIMVirtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) manages the NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) resources in one domain. Resources in the NFV environment include virtual (VMs), physical (storage, servers, etc.), and software (hypervisors). There may be multiple VIMs in an NFV architecture, each managing its respective NFVI domain. The VIM also provides a northbound API, exposing physical and virtual resources to other management systems. only.

Select the VNFD you want to modify, click the VDU object in the canvas, and edit the following fields in the Editor pane under Interface.

• Position — Type an integer to specify the explicit position of the interface in the interface listing.
• Type — Select External or Internal for the type of the interface.

RIFT.ware respects the interface order that you configure. Interfaces without an explicit order are implicitly ordered by name.

The order is an integer comparison between specified interfaces and not an absolute representation of the position of an interface in the interface list. For example: (3, 7, 1, 0, 12, 10) will be ordered as (0, 1, 3, 7, 10, 12) and not as (0, 1, x, 3, x, x, x, 7, x, x, 10, x, 12)

If you prefer to configure the descriptor directly, see vnfd:interface in the MANO Descriptor Reference.