CN111581203B

CN111581203B - Information processing method, device and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN111581203B
Application number: CN201910123224.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 邓辉; 李世涛
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-02-19
Filing date: 2019-02-19
Publication date: 2023-05-19
Anticipated expiration: 2039-02-19
Also published as: CN111581203A

Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides an information processing method, an information processing device and a storage medium, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the Virtual Network Function (VNF) management module acquires an NS instance storage space created by the A & AI through interaction with an operation state database (A & AI) based on an NS instance identification determined by an NS instance request, executes an instance operation on the NS instance based on the NS instance storage space, and sends acquired NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance and VNF instance information corresponding to all the VNF instances contained in the NS instance to the A & AI, wherein the A & AI stores the NS instance information to the NS instance storage space, and stores the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance to the VNF instance storage space. In the technical scheme, the VNF management module stores the running state data into the A & AI, so that the processing task of the NFV system is reduced, and the information query efficiency is improved.

Description

Information processing method, device and storage medium

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of data processing technologies, and in particular, to an information processing method, an information processing device, and a storage medium.

Background

A Network Service (NS) virtualized in a network function virtualization (network function virtualization, NFV) system may include one or more virtualized network function (virtual network function, VNF) modules. When deploying an NS, a service requester needs to provide a service provider with NS description information (NSD), also called NSD template. NSD is mainly used to describe the topology of NS and contains the description information (VNF descriptor, VNFD) of each VNF, which is the description information of one VNF, also called VNF template.

In the prior art, the storage manner of service data in the NFV system may be as follows: NSD templates, VNF packages (including VNFDs), deployment-successful NS instance information, etc. are stored on an NFV orchestrator (NFVO), and deployment-successful VNF instance information is stored on a virtual network function manager (virtualized network function manager, VNFM). The service requester can query the NS instance information after the NS instance in the NFV system operates for a period of time according to the requirements, and a query result is obtained.

However, since the service data of the NFV system are stored in the NFVO and the VNFM, all the service data need to be queried in the NFVO and the VNFM, so that the processing task of the NFV system is heavy and the information query efficiency is low.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides an information processing method, an information processing device and a storage medium, which are used for solving the problems of heavy processing task and low information query efficiency of an NFV system in the prior art.

A first aspect of the present application provides an information processing method, adapted to a VNF management module of a virtualized network function, the method including:

based on the identification of the NS instance determined by the network service NS instantiation request, acquiring an NS instance storage space created by the A & AI through interaction with the running state database A & AI;

Performing an instantiation operation on the NS instance based on the NS instance storage space to obtain NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance and VNF instance information corresponding to all the VNF instances contained in the NS instance;

and sending the NS instance information and the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance to the A & AI, so that the A & AI stores the NS instance information into the NS instance storage space, and stores the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance into the VNF instance storage space.

In this embodiment, the VNF management module itself does not store NS instance information and VNF instance information, but stores the running NS instance information and VNF instance information into the a & AI, which reduces the processing task of the NFV system and improves the information query efficiency.

In a possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the method further includes:

receiving a VNF instance information parameter list generated and transmitted after the a & AI stores the VNF instance information, wherein the VNF instance information parameter list includes: parameters of the NS instance stored by the a & AI;

updating the NS instance information in the VNF management module according to the VNF instance information parameter list, the NS instance information including: the NS instance creates VNF instance and resource information in the instantiation process.

In this embodiment, the VNF management module receives the VNF instance information parameter list sent by the a & AI, and updates NS instance information in the VNF management module based on the VNF instance information parameter list, so that NS instance information stored in the VNF management module is accurate, that is, the parameters of the stored VNF instance are determined to be accurate.

In the foregoing possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the method further includes:

receiving an NS instance information query request sent by a service requester, wherein the NS instance information query request comprises: at least one parameter to be queried;

judging whether the at least one parameter to be queried is in the VNF instance information parameter list;

for the parameters to be queried in the VNF instance information parameter list, acquiring the value information of the parameters to be queried by interacting with the running state database A & AI;

and for the parameters to be queried which are not in the VNF instance information parameter list, acquiring the value information of the parameters to be queried by interacting with a service design and creation SDC module.

In this embodiment, the VNF management module may determine the query location of the parameter to be queried, that is, store the query location in the a & AI or SDC, so that the value information of the parameter to be queried may be accurately obtained, and the problem of inaccurate query results caused by non-uniform data of multiple storage locations when service data are stored in the NFVO and the VNFM is avoided.

In another possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the identifying of the NS instance determined based on the network service NS instantiation request, obtaining, by interacting with a running state database a & AI, an NS instance storage space created by the a & AI includes:

determining the identification of the NS instance according to the identification of the NS information model description template NSD carried in the network service NS instantiation request;

sending a create request to the a & AI to create the NS instance storage space, the NS instance storage space create request comprising: the identification of the NS instance;

and receiving the NS instance storage space created by the running state database A & AI according to the identification of the NS instance and a preset NS instance format.

In this embodiment, the VNF management module and the a & AI interact to create an NS instance storage space, which lays a foundation for storing NS instance information in the a & AI.

In still another possible implementation manner of the first aspect, before the sending the NS instance information and VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance to the a & AI, the method further includes:

during the process of executing the instantiation operation on the NS instance, determining the identities of all VNF instances included in the NS instance;

Sending a VNF instance storage space creation request to the a & AI, the VNF instance storage space request being for requesting creation of a VNF instance storage space for storing VNF instance information, the VNF instance storage space creation request comprising: identification of all VNF instances;

and receiving the VNF instance storage space created by the running state database A & AI according to the identifiers of all the VNF instances and a preset VNF instance format.

In this embodiment, the VNF management module and the a & AI perform interaction to create a VNF instance storage space, which lays a foundation for storing information of each VNF instance in the a & AI.

In still another possible implementation manner of the first aspect, the performing an instantiation operation on the NS instance based on the NS instance storage space to obtain NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance and VNF instance information corresponding to all VNF instances included in the NS instance includes:

executing an instantiation operation process on the NS instance based on the NS instance parameters contained in the NS instance storage space, and obtaining NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance parameters after successful instantiation;

and executing an instantiation operation process on the NS instance, and respectively executing an instantiation operation on all the VNs contained in the NS instance to obtain VNF instance information corresponding to all the VNF instances.

A second aspect of the present application provides an information processing method, applicable to a running state database a & AI, including:

creating an NS instance storage space based on an NS instance storage space creation request of the VNF management module;

sending the NS instance storage space to the VNF management module;

receiving the NS instance information sent by the VNF management module and VNF instance information corresponding to all VNF instances included in the NS instance corresponding to the NS instance information,

storing the NS instance information into the NS instance storage space, and storing the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance into the VNF instance storage space.

In this embodiment, after the a & AI creates the NS instance storage space, the NS instance information sent by the VNF management module and the VNF instance information corresponding to all the VNF instances included in the NS instance corresponding to the NS instance may be received and stored, so that the problems of heavy processing task and low information query efficiency of the NFV system caused by the fact that the VNF management module itself stores the NS instance information and the VNF instance information are avoided.

In one possible implementation manner of the second aspect, after the storing VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance in the VNF instance storage space, the method further includes:

Generating a VNF instance information parameter list according to VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance, the VNF instance information parameter list including parameters of the NS instance stored by the a & AI;

and sending the VNF instance information parameter list to the VNF management module.

In this embodiment, the a & AI sends the VNF instance information parameter list in the NS instantiation process to the VNF management module, so that the VNF management module updates its NS instance information, so that the NS instance information stored in the VNF management module is accurate, that is, the parameters of the stored VNF instance are determined accurately.

In the foregoing possible implementation manner of the second aspect, if the NS instance information query request received by the VNF management module from the service requester includes parameters to be queried in the VNF instance information parameter list, the method further includes:

receiving a parameter query request sent by the VNF management module, where the parameter query request includes: the parameters to be queried;

determining the value information of the parameter to be queried;

and sending the value information of the parameter to be queried to the VNF management module.

In this embodiment, if the VNF management module includes the parameter to be queried in the VNF instance information parameter list in the NS instance information query request received from the service requester, the VNF management module may query the a & AI to accurately obtain the value information of the parameter to be queried.

In another possible implementation manner of the second aspect, the creating the NS instance storage space based on the NS instance storage space creation request of the VNF management module includes:

receiving an NS instance storage space creation request sent by the VNF management module, where the NS instance storage space creation request includes: the identification of the NS instance;

and creating the NS instance storage space according to the identification of the NS instance and a preset NS instance format.

In still another possible implementation manner of the second aspect, before the receiving VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance sent by the VNF management module, the method further includes:

receiving a VNF instance storage space creation request sent by the VNF management module in a process of performing an instantiation operation on the NS instance, the VNF instance storage space creation request being used for requesting creation of a VNF instance storage space for storing VNF instance information, the VNF instance storage space creation request including: identification of all VNF instances;

creating the VNF instance storage space according to the identifications of all the VNF instances and a preset VNF instance format;

and sending the VNF instance storage space to the VNF management module.

A third aspect of the present application provides an information processing apparatus adapted to virtualize a network function VNF management module, the apparatus including: the device comprises an acquisition unit, a processing unit and a receiving and transmitting unit;

the acquisition unit is used for acquiring an NS instance storage space created by the A & AI through interaction with the running state database A & AI based on the identification of the NS instance determined by the network service NS instantiation request;

the processing unit is configured to perform an instantiation operation on the NS instance based on the NS instance storage space, so as to obtain NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance and VNF instance information corresponding to all VNF instances included in the NS instance;

the transceiver unit is configured to send the NS instance information and VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance to the a & AI, so that the a & AI stores the NS instance information in the NS instance storage space, and stores VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance in the VNF instance storage space.

In a possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the transceiver unit is further configured to receive a VNF instance information parameter list generated and sent after the a & AI stores the VNF instance information, where the VNF instance information parameter list includes: parameters of the NS instance stored by the a & AI;

The processing unit is further configured to update the NS instance information in the VNF management module according to the VNF instance information parameter list, where the NS instance information includes: the NS instance creates VNF instance and resource information in the instantiation process.

In one possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the transceiver unit is further configured to receive an NS instance information query request sent by a service requester, where the NS instance information query request includes: at least one parameter to be queried;

the processing unit is further configured to determine whether the at least one parameter to be queried is in the VNF instance information parameter list, obtain, for the parameter to be queried in the VNF instance information parameter list, value information of the parameter to be queried by interacting with the running state database a & AI, and obtain, for the parameter to be queried that is not in the VNF instance information parameter list, value information of the parameter to be queried by interacting with a service design and creation SDC module.

In another possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the obtaining unit is configured to obtain, based on the identity of the NS instance determined by the network service NS instantiation request, the NS instance storage space created by the a & AI through interaction with the running state database a & AI, specifically:

The acquiring unit is specifically configured to determine, according to an identifier of an NS information model description template NSD carried in a network service NS instantiation request, an identifier of the NS instance, send, by the transceiver unit, a request for creating a storage space of the NS instance to the a & AI, and receive, by the transceiver unit, the NS instance storage space created by the running database a & AI according to the identifier of the NS instance and a preset NS instance format, where the NS instance storage space creation request includes: and the identification of the NS instance.

In still another possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the processing unit is further configured to determine, before the transceiver unit sends the NS instance information and VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance to the a & AI, identifiers of all VNF instances included in the NS instance during an instantiation operation performed on the NS instance;

the transceiver unit is further configured to send a VNF instance storage space creation request to the a & AI, and receive the VNF instance storage space created by the running state database a & AI according to the identifiers of all VNF instances and a preset VNF instance format, where the VNF instance storage space request is used to request creation of a VNF instance storage space for storing VNF instance information, and the VNF instance storage space creation request includes: identification of all VNF instances.

In yet another possible implementation manner of the third aspect, the processing unit is configured to perform an instantiation operation on the NS instance based on the NS instance storage space, to obtain NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance and VNF instance information corresponding to all VNF instances included in the NS instance, specifically:

the processing unit is specifically configured to perform an instantiation operation procedure on the NS instance based on the NS instance parameter included in the NS instance storage space, obtain NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance parameter after the instantiation is successful, and perform an instantiation operation procedure on the NS instance, and respectively perform an instantiation operation on all VNFs included in the NS instance, so as to obtain VNF instance information corresponding to all VNF instances.

The advantages of the various possible designs of the third aspect may be found in the description of the various possible designs of the first aspect, and are not repeated here.

A fourth aspect of the present application provides an information processing apparatus adapted to run state database a & AI, the apparatus comprising: the device comprises a processing unit, a receiving and transmitting unit and a storage unit;

the processing unit is configured to create an NS instance storage space based on an NS instance storage space creation request of the VNF management module;

The receiving and transmitting unit is configured to send the NS instance storage space to the VNF management module, and receive NS instance information sent by the VNF management module and VNF instance information corresponding to all VNF instances included in an NS instance corresponding to the NS instance information,

the storage unit is configured to store the NS instance information into the NS instance storage space, and store VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance into the VNF instance storage space.

In one possible implementation manner of the fourth aspect, the processing unit is further configured to generate, after the storage unit stores VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance in a VNF instance storage space, a VNF instance information parameter list according to VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance, where the VNF instance information parameter list includes parameters of the NS instance stored by the a & AI;

the transceiver unit is further configured to send the VNF instance information parameter list to the VNF management module.

In the foregoing possible implementation manner of the fourth aspect, if the VNF management module includes parameters to be queried in the VNF instance information parameter list in an NS instance information query request received from a service requester

The transceiver unit is further configured to receive a parameter query request sent by the VNF management module, where the parameter query request includes: the parameters to be queried;

the processing unit is also used for determining the value information of the parameter to be queried;

the receiving and transmitting unit is further configured to send the value information of the parameter to be queried to the VNF management module.

In another possible implementation manner of the fourth aspect, the processing unit is configured to create, based on the NS instance storage space creation request of the VNF management module, an NS instance storage space, specifically:

the processing unit is specifically configured to receive, by using the transceiver unit, an NS instance storage space creation request sent by the VNF management module, where the NS instance storage space creation request includes: and the identification of the NS instance and the creation of the NS instance storage space according to the identification of the NS instance and a preset NS instance format.

In a further possible implementation manner of the fourth aspect, the transceiver unit is further configured to, before receiving VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance sent by the VNF management module, receive a VNF instance storage space creation request sent by the VNF management module in a process of performing an instantiation operation on the NS instance, where the VNF instance storage space creation request is used to request creation of a VNF instance storage space for storing VNF instance information, and the VNF instance storage space creation request includes: identification of all VNF instances;

The processing unit is further configured to create the VNF instance storage space according to the identifiers of all VNF instances and a preset VNF instance format;

the transceiver unit is further configured to send the VNF instance storage space to the VNF management module.

The advantages of the various possible designs of the fourth aspect may be found in the description of the various possible designs of the second aspect, and are not repeated here.

A fifth aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides an information processing apparatus, including a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, where the processor executes the program to implement the method provided by the first aspect and the various possible designs of the first aspect.

A sixth aspect of embodiments of the present application provides an information processing apparatus, including at least one processing element (or chip) for performing the above first aspect and various possible designs of the first aspect.

A seventh aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides a storage medium having stored therein instructions which, when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method provided by the first aspect and the various possible designs of the first aspect.

An eighth aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides a computer program product comprising instructions which, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method provided by the above-described first aspect and the various possible designs of the first aspect.

A ninth aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides an information processing apparatus, including a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, where the processor executes the program to implement the method provided by the second aspect and the various possible designs of the second aspect.

A tenth aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides an information processing apparatus including at least one processing element (or chip) for performing the above second aspect and various possible designs of the second aspect.

An eleventh aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides a storage medium having stored therein instructions that when executed on a computer cause the computer to perform the method provided by the second aspect and the various possible designs of the second aspect.

A twelfth aspect of the embodiments of the present application provides a computer program product comprising instructions which, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method provided by the above second aspect and the various possible designs of the second aspect.

According to the information processing method, device and storage medium, the identity of an NS instance determined based on an NS instantiation request is obtained through a VNF management module, an NS instance storage space created by the A & AI is obtained through interaction with an A & AI, an instantiation operation is executed on the NS instance based on the NS instance storage space, the obtained NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance and the VNF instance information corresponding to all the VNF instances contained in the NS instance are sent to the A & AI, the A & AI stores the NS instance information in the NS instance storage space, and the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance is stored in the VNF instance storage space. According to the technical scheme, the VNF management module stores running state data into the A & AI, so that the processing task of the NFV system is reduced, the information query efficiency is improved, and the problems of heavy processing task and low information query efficiency of the NFV system in the prior art are solved.

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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an architecture of an NFV system;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a process for completing a service deployment by ETSI NFV in the prior art;

fig. 3 is a schematic interaction flow chart of a first embodiment of an information processing method provided in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic interaction flow chart of a second embodiment of an information processing method provided in the embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of an interaction flow of a third embodiment of an information processing method provided in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of an interaction flow of a fourth embodiment of an information processing method provided in the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of an ONAP architecture according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of an interaction flow of a fifth embodiment of an information processing method provided in the embodiments of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of another ONAP architecture provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of a sixth interaction flow of an embodiment of an information processing method provided in the present application;

fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment one of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of a second embodiment of an information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of a third embodiment of an information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present application;

fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a fourth embodiment of an information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

Conventional telecommunication systems are composed of various dedicated hardware devices, with different applications using different hardware devices. As the scale of networks grows, telecommunication systems become more complex, and challenges need to be faced more and more, such as the development of newly added services, the operation and maintenance of the systems, and the utilization of resources. To address these challenges and utilize the virtualization technology and cloud computing technology of the information technology (information technology, IT) industry, the 13 major telecom operators worldwide have jointly released a network function virtualization (network function virtualization, NFV) white paper and announce that NFV industry specification group (industry specific group, ISG) is established in european telecommunications standards institute (Europe telecommunications standards institute, ETSI), and the requirements and technical frameworks of NFV are formulated, promoting the development of NFV.

NFV technology can be understood simply as migrating the functionality of individual network elements used in a telecommunications network from the current dedicated hardware platform to a common commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) server. Each network element used in the telecommunication network is converted into an independent application through the NFV technology, the independent application can be flexibly deployed on a unified infrastructure platform constructed based on other equipment such as a standard server, a storage and a switch, virtual resources are provided for an infrastructure hardware device resource pool and virtualization, and virtual resources are provided for an upper layer application through a virtualization technology, so that the application and hardware decoupling are realized, each application can quickly increase the virtual resources to realize the purpose of quickly expanding the system capacity, or can quickly reduce the virtual resources to realize the purpose of contracting the system capacity, and the elasticity of the network is greatly improved. The shared resource pool is formed by adopting the common COTS server, and newly developed service does not need to independently deploy hardware equipment, thereby greatly shortening the online time of the new service.

The basis of NFV technology includes cloud computing technology and virtualization technology. The common COTS computing/storing/network hardware equipment can be decomposed into various virtual resources through a virtualization technology for use by various upper layers of applications. Decoupling between the application and the hardware is realized through a virtualization technology, so that the virtual resource supply speed is greatly increased; by the cloud computing technology, the application can be elastically stretched, the virtual resources are matched with the service load, the utilization efficiency of the virtual resources is improved, and the response rate of the system is improved.

Illustratively, the functions of the dedicated devices in the conventional network are carried by using general-purpose hardware devices and virtualization technologies, thereby reducing the expensive costs due to the deployment of the dedicated devices. By decoupling the software and hardware, the network device functions are no longer dependent on dedicated hardware. By utilizing the characteristics of cloud computing, resources can be fully and flexibly shared, rapid development and deployment of new services are realized, and automatic deployment, elastic expansion, fault isolation, self-healing and the like are performed based on actual service requirements.

In general, in the NFV system, a party capable of receiving a virtualization request and performing a virtualization process on a corresponding service according to the virtualization request is called a service provider of the virtualization service, and a party initiating the virtualization request is called a service requester.

At this time, the virtualized Network Service (NS) in NFV may be an IP multimedia subsystem network service (IP multimedia subsystem, IMS) network, or may be a next generation mobile core network (evolved packet core, EPC). An NS may include one or more virtualized network function (virtual network function, VNF) modules.

When deploying an NS, a service requester needs to provide a service provider with description information (NS descriptor, NSD) of a network service, also called a deployment template of the NS. NSD mainly describes the topology of the network service and contains description information (VNF descriptor, VNFD) for each VNF, wherein virtualized connection information (virtual link descriptor, VLD) is used in the topology to describe the connections between VNFs. VNFD is a description information of a VNF, which is also called as a deployment template of the VNF, where VNFD includes information such as virtual deployment unit (virtualisation deployment unit, VDU), connection Point (CP), virtual Link (VL), etc.

The VDU may represent a virtual machine with application software installed, the description of the VDU may include a description of the requirements of all virtual resources of the virtual machine, the CP represents connection information on the virtual machine, for example, may be virtual network card information, may be represented by an IP address or a MAC address, and the VL is a virtual connection in which multiple VDUs are connected in a VNF, and may be represented by information such as a connection type, a bandwidth, and the like.

Illustratively, fig. 1 is a schematic architecture diagram of an NFV system. As shown in fig. 1, the NFV system 100 may be implemented in various networks, for example, in a data center network, carrier network, or local area network. The NFV system 100 includes an NFV management and orchestration system (NFV management and orchestration, NFV MANO) 101, NFV infrastructure layers (NFV infrastructure, NFVI) 130, virtual network functions (virtual network function, VNF) 108, network element management (element management, EM) 122, network services, VNF and infrastructure descriptions (VNF and infrastructure description) 126, and a business support management system (operation-support system/business support system, OSS/BSS) 124.

Among other things, NFV MANO 101 includes an NFV orchestrator (NFVO) 102, one or more VNF managers (VNFM) 104, and a virtualized infrastructure manager (virtualized infrastructure manager, VIM) 106.NFVI 130 includes computing hardware 112, storage hardware 114, network hardware 116, virtualization layer (virtualization layer), virtual computing 110, virtual storage 118, and virtual network 120. The network services, VNF and infrastructure descriptions 126 and OSS/BSS124 are detailed in the standard specifications of the system and are not described here in detail.

NFV MANO 101 is configured to perform monitoring and management of VNF108 and NFVI 130.

NFVO 102 is primarily responsible for lifecycle management for handling virtualized traffic, as well as allocation and scheduling of virtual resources in the virtual infrastructure and NFVI 130, etc. That is, NFVO 102 may implement network services on NFVI 130, may also perform resource-related requests from one or more VNFMs 104, or send configuration information to VNFMs 104, and collect status information of VNF 108.

In addition, NFVO 102 may communicate with VIM 106 to enable allocation and/or reservation of resources and exchange configuration and status information for virtualized hardware resources.

The VNFM104 may manage one or more VNFs 108. The VNFM104 may be responsible for lifecycle management of one or more VNFs, performing various management functions, such as instantiation (instantiation), update (update), query, elastic scaling (scaling), termination (termination) VNF108, and so on. The VNFM104 and VIM 106 may communicate with each other for resource allocation and exchanging configuration and status information of virtualized hardware resources. There may be multiple VNFMs in the NFV architecture, responsible for lifecycle management for different types of VNFs.

VIM 106 is used to control and manage interactions of VNF108 with computing hardware 112, storage hardware 114, network hardware 116, virtual computing (virtual computing) 118, virtual storage 120, virtual network 122. For example, VIM 106 may perform functions of resource management, such as managing allocation of infrastructure resources (e.g., adding resources to virtual containers) and operational functions (e.g., collecting NFVI failure information).

Illustratively, the NFVI 130 includes hardware resources, software resources, or a combination of both to complete the deployment of the virtualized environment, manage, and implement the VNF108. In other words, the hardware resources and virtualization layer is used to provide virtualized resources, e.g., as virtual machines and other forms of virtual containers. The hardware resources include computing hardware 112, storage hardware 114, and network hardware 116. The computing hardware 112 may be off-the-shelf hardware and/or custom hardware to provide processing and computing resources. The storage hardware 114 may be storage capacity provided within a network or storage capacity residing in the storage hardware 114 itself (local storage located within a server).

In one implementation, the resources of the computing hardware 112 and the storage hardware 114 may be pooled together. Network hardware 116 may be a switch, a router, and/or any other network device configured with switching functionality. Network hardware 116 may span multiple domains and may include multiple networks interconnected by one or more transport networks.

The virtualization layer within NFVI 130 may abstract hardware resources from the physical layer and decouple VNF108 in order to provide virtualized resources to VNF108. The virtual resource layer includes virtual computing 110, virtual memory 118, and virtual network 120. Virtual computing 110 and virtual storage 118 may be provided to VNF108 in the form of virtual machines, and/or other virtual containers. For example, one or more VNFs 108 may be deployed on one virtual machine VM, with the virtualization layer abstracting the network hardware 116 to form a virtual network 120, which virtual network 120 may include Virtual Switches (VS) that are used to provide connectivity between the virtual machine and other virtual machines. In addition, the transport network in the network hardware 116 may employ a centralized control plane and a separate forwarding plane (e.g., software defined network, SDN) virtualization.

EM 110 is a system used in conventional telecommunications systems to configure and manage devices. In NFV architecture, EM 110 may also be used to configure and manage VNFs, and initiate lifecycle management operations such as instantiation of new VNFs to VNFM 104.

OSS/BSS124 supports various end-to-end telecommunications services. Management functions supported by OSS include: network configuration, service provisioning, fault management, etc. The BSS processes orders, pays, incomes, etc., supports product management, order management, revenue management and customer management.

As shown in fig. 1, VNFM 104 may interact with VNF108 and EM 122 to manage the life cycle of the VNF and exchange configuration and status information. The VNF108 may be configured for virtualization of at least one network function performed by one physical network device. For example, in one implementation, the VNF108 may be configured to provide functionality that is possessed by different network elements in the IMS network. EM 122 is configured to manage one or more VNFs 108.

Fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a service deployment performed by ETSI NFV in the prior art. As shown in fig. 2, this embodiment is illustrated with the interaction of OSS/BSS, NFVO, and VNFM. Optionally, the service deployment process may include the following steps:

Step 21: the OSS/BSS uploads the NSD file to the NFVO.

Wherein the NSD file is a deployment template for NS, which is designed by OSS/BSS.

Step 22: NFVO authenticates the NSD file and saves the NSD file after authentication.

Optionally, after the NFVO saves the NSD file, the NS may be deployed later using the NSD file.

Step 23: NFVO feeds back NSD file upload success response to OSS/BSS.

The NSD file upload success response is used for indicating that the NFVO successfully receives and saves the NSD file uploaded by the OSS/BSS.

Step 24: the OSS/BSS uploads VNF packages of all VNFs contained in the NSD file to the NFVO.

The VNF package, i.e., the VNF package, includes all information required for deploying a VNF, including VNFD files, etc.

For example, if the NSD includes multiple VNFs, this step needs to be repeated to instruct that all VNF packages are successfully uploaded, that is, the VNF package of each VNF is successfully uploaded to the NFVO.

It should be noted that, this step 24 may also be performed before step 21, that is, the OSS/BSS uploads VNF packages of all VNFs first, and then uploads the NSD. The embodiments of the present application do not limit the NSD file and the uploading sequence of VNF packets of all VNFs included in the NSD, and may be determined according to actual situations.

Optionally, for the VNFD file included in the VNF package, in general, one VNFD file may include the following parameters:

in practical application, the uploaded VNFD file further includes specific value information of the above parameters.

Step 25: NFVO feeds back VNF packet upload success response to OSS/BSS.

The VNF package upload success response is used to indicate that VNF packages of all VNFs contained in the NSD file have been successfully uploaded to the NFVO.

Step 26: the OSS/BSS is sending a create NS instance identification request to the NFVO.

Wherein the NS instance identification request includes: identification of the NSD file.

Alternatively, the OSS/BSS needs to first request the NFVO to create an NS instance ID for an NS instance before deploying the NS instance.

Step 27: the NFVO creates an NS instance identity for the NS instance based on the identity of the NSD file.

Optionally, the NFVO stores a record of an NS instance in its own database according to the received NSD identifier, and assigns an identifier to the NS instance.

Step 28: the NFVO returns the NS instance identity to the OSS/BSS.

Step 29: the OSS/BSS initiates an NS instantiation request to the NFVO.

Wherein the NS instantiation request includes: the NS instance identity.

Step 210: the NFVO obtains the corresponding NSD file by identifying the NS instance in the NS instantiation request.

Step 211: NFVO deploys an NS instance by interacting with VNFM according to the NSD file.

Specifically, this step 211 may be implemented by the following steps A1 to A5:

step A1: and the NFVO initiates a flow of VNF instantiation to the VNFM according to the VNFD identifier contained in the NSD file.

Optionally, if the NSD file includes multiple VNFD identifiers, the NFVO needs to initiate a flow of multiple VNF instantiations to the VNFM.

Step A2: the VNFM acquires a VNFD file according to the VNFD identifier, and deploys a VNF instance by adopting the VNFD file.

Step A3: the VNFM stores VNF instance information of successful deployment.

Step A4: the VNFM feeds back VNF instance deployment success responses to the NFVO.

Alternatively, VNFM-saved VNF instance information is called vnfnfo, and may specifically include the following parameters:

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in the vnfnfo, the values of the parameters vnfdId, vnfProvider, vnfProductName, vnfSoftwareVersion, vnfdVersion, onboardedVnfPkgInfoId, vnfConfigurableProperty and monitoringParameter are directly obtained from the VNFD or VNF package in step 24, and other information is obtained according to the current actual situation of the specific VNF to be deployed.

A5: after receiving successful responses of all VNF instantiations, the NFVO concatenates all VNF instantiations according to the description information in the NSD to form an NS instantiation.

Optionally, the NFVO concatenates all VNF instances to form an NS instance indicating that the NS instance was successfully deployed.

Step 212: NFVO holds this NS instance information for deployment.

This NS instance information is also called NsInfo.

Step 213: the NFVO returns an NS instance deployment success response to the OSS/BSS.

Step 214: the OSS/BSS initiates an NS instantiation info query request to the NFVO.

Optionally, when the OSS/BSS needs to query NS instance information, an NS instantiation information query request may be initiated to the NFVO, where the request may be used to query the entire NS instance information, or may specify a current value of a parameter in the query NS instance information.

Step 215: the NFVO determines information of the NS instance by interacting with the VNFM according to the NS instantiation information query request.

Optionally, the NFVO initiates a request for querying VNFInfo to the VNFM, if the NS instantiation information query request corresponds to querying information of a certain VNF instance in the NS instance, the VNFM returns the value of the VNFInfo containing parameter, if the NS instantiation information query request corresponds to querying the entire VNFInfo information, the VNFM returns the value of all VNFInfo containing parameter, and if the NS instantiation information query request corresponds to querying information of a certain parameter in the VNF instance, the VNFM only returns the current value of the parameter.

Step 216: the NFVO returns the information of the resulting NS instance to the OSS/BSS.

In this embodiment, as can be seen from the above steps, in the current NFV architecture, VNF package (including VNFD) and NSD files in a deployed state and NS instance information in a running state are stored on NFVO, and VNF instance information in a running state is stored on VNFM. The service data of the NFV system are stored in the NFVO and the VNFM, so that all the service data need to be queried in the NFVO and the VNFM, the processing task of the NFV system is heavy, and the information query efficiency is low.

In view of the above problems, embodiments of the present application provide an information processing method, an apparatus, and a storage medium, where a VNF management module obtains an NS instance storage space created by an a & AI by interacting with an running database a & AI based on an NS instance identification determined by an NS instance request, performs an instantiation operation on the NS instance based on the NS instance storage space, obtains NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance and VNF instance information corresponding to all VNF instances included in the NS instance, and sends the NS instance information and VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance to the a & AI, where the a & AI stores the NS instance information in the NS instance storage space, and stores VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance in the VNF instance storage space. In the technical scheme, the VNF management module stores the running state data into the A & AI, so that the processing task of the NFV system is reduced, and the information query efficiency is improved.

The following describes the technical scheme of the present application in detail through specific embodiments. It should be noted that the following embodiments may be combined with each other, and the same or similar concepts or processes may not be described in detail in some embodiments.

Fig. 3 is an interaction flow diagram of a first embodiment of an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present application. This embodiment is illustrated with information interaction of the virtualized network function VNF management module with the running state database a & AI. As shown in fig. 3, in the present embodiment, the information processing method may include the steps of:

step 31: the VNF management module obtains the NS instance storage space created by the a & AI by interacting with the running state database a & AI based on the NS instance identification determined by the NS instantiation request.

For example, in this embodiment, when a service requester needs to instantiate an NS, first, the VNF management module creates an identifier of an NS instance for the NS instance according to a received NS instantiation request; secondly, the VNF management module requests the a & AI to create an NS instance storage space for storing NS instance information; finally, the VNF management module receives the NS instance storage space returned by the a & AI after successfully creating the NS instance storage space.

Specifically, after receiving the NS instance storage space sent by the VNF management module, the a & AI creates an NS instance storage address (space) for storing the NS instance in the a & AI database, where the NS instance storage space includes all parameters that need to be stored by an NS instance, but values of all parameters are null, so that the VNF management module performs an instantiation operation on the NS instance, and after the NS instance is successfully instantiated, a specific value of a parameter included in the NS instance can be obtained.

Step 32: and the VNF management module executes an instantiation operation on the NS instance based on the NS instance storage space to obtain NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance and VNF instance information corresponding to all the VNF instances contained in the NS instance.

Optionally, in this embodiment, after the VNF management module obtains the NS instance storage space, all parameters that need to be saved by the NS instance are determined, so the VNF management module performs an instantiation operation on the NS instance based on the format of the NS instance storage space, and may determine a specific value of each parameter.

Illustratively, in this embodiment, this step 32 may be implemented by:

step B1: the VNF management module executes an instantiation operation process on the NS instance based on the NS instance parameters contained in the NS instance storage space, and after the instantiation is successful, NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance parameters is obtained.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the VNF management module determines a specific value of each NS instance parameter based on the NS instance parameter included in the NS instance storage space, and if the specific value of each NS instance parameter is obtained, the NS is considered to be successfully instantiated, and accordingly NS instance information corresponding to all NS instance parameters is obtained.

Step B2: the VNF management module executes an instantiation operation process on the NS instance, and executes an instantiation operation on all the VNs contained in the NS instance respectively to obtain the VNF instance information corresponding to all the VNF instances.

For example, each NS instance may include multiple VNFs, and thus, the VNF management module performs an instantiation operation procedure on the NS instance, that is, performs an instantiation operation on all VNFs included in the NS instance, to obtain VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF in all VNF instances.

Step 33: and the VNF management module sends the NS instance information and the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance to the A & AI.

Optionally, in this embodiment, in the process of executing the instantiation operation on the NS and the VNF, the VNF management module requests to create the NS instance storage space and the VNF instance storage space from the a & AI, so after the VNF management module successfully instantiates the NS and the VNF, the VNF management module itself does not save the NS instance information and the VNF instance information generated in the NS instantiation process, but sends them to the a & AI for saving.

Step 34: the A & AI stores the received NS instance information into a NS instance storage space, and stores the received VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance into a VNF instance storage space.

In this embodiment, the a & AI receives NS instance information and VNF instance information sent by the VNF management module, and stores the NS instance information and the VNF instance information respectively. Specifically, the a & AI stores the received NS instance information into the NS instance storage space, and stores VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance into the VNF instance storage space, so as to improve query efficiency during subsequent queries.

According to the information processing method provided by the embodiment of the invention, the VNF management module acquires the NS instance storage space created by the A & AI through interaction with the A & AI based on the identification of the NS instance determined by the NS instance request, executes the instance operation on the NS instance based on the NS instance storage space, and after the sub-instance is successful, sends the acquired NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance and the VNF instance information corresponding to all the VNF instances contained in the NS instance to the A & AI, and the A & AI stores the NS instance information to the NS instance storage space and stores the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance to the VNF instance storage space. In the technical scheme, the VNF management module does not store the NS instance information and the VNF instance information, but stores the running NS instance information and the VNF instance information into the A & AI, so that the processing task of the NFV system is reduced, and the information query efficiency is improved.

Exemplary, based on the foregoing embodiments, fig. 4 is a schematic interaction flow diagram of a second embodiment of an information processing method provided in the embodiments of the present application. As shown in fig. 4, after the above step 34, the information processing method may further include the steps of:

step 41: and the A & AI generates a VNF instance information parameter list according to the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance.

Wherein the VNF instance information parameter list includes parameters of the NS instance stored by the a & AI.

Optionally, in this embodiment, after the a & AI stores the received NS instance information and VNF information, a VNF instance information parameter list may be generated based on the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance, that is, the parameters included in each NVF instance and the parameters of the NS instance are determined.

Step 42: the a & AI sends the VNF instance information parameter list to the VNF management module.

For example, the a & AI synchronizes the information stored by the a & AI, that is, the VNF instance information parameter list, to the VNF management module, so that the VNF management module timely knows which NS instance parameters are stored in the a & AI, and when the VNF management module subsequently receives the parameter query request of the service requester, the VNF management module can timely determine the specific storage location of the parameter corresponding to the parameter query request, thereby improving the response speed of the VNF.

Step 43: and the VNF management module updates the NS instance information in the VNF management module according to the received VNF instance information parameter list.

Wherein, the NS instance information includes: the NS instance creates VNF instance and resource information in the instantiation process.

In this embodiment, the VNF management module receives the VNF instance information parameter list sent by the a & AI, and updates NS instance information in the VNF management module based on the VNF instance information parameter list, so that NS instance information stored in the VNF management module is accurate, that is, parameters of the stored VNF instance are determined accurately.

Further, referring to fig. 4, in this embodiment, the information processing method may further include the steps of:

step 44: the VNF management module receives an NS instance information query request sent by the service requester.

Wherein, the NS instance information query request includes: at least one parameter to be queried.

Optionally, in this embodiment, when the service requester queries the NS instance information, the service request initiates an NS instantiation information query request to the VNF management module, where the query request may be used to query the entire NS instance information, or may specify to query the current value of a parameter in the NS instance information, so that the NS instance information query request includes: at least one parameter to be queried.

Step 45: the VNF management module determines whether the at least one parameter to be queried is in a VNF instance information parameter list.

In this embodiment, the VNF management module analyzes the NS instantiation information query request, determines all parameters to be queried included in the NS instantiation information query request, and determines parameters to be queried stored in the a & AI and parameters to be queried in the service design & creation (SDC) module according to whether each parameter to be queried belongs to the VNF instantiation information parameter list.

Step 46: and for the parameters to be queried in the VNF instance information parameter list, the VNF management module acquires the value information of the parameters to be queried through interaction with the A & AI.

As an example, if some parameters to be queried included in the NS instance information query request exist in the VNF instance information parameter list, the value information indicating the parameters to be queried is stored in the a & AI, so that the value information of the parameters to be queried can be obtained through interaction with the a & AI.

Illustratively, the VNF management module sends a parameter query request to the a & AI, the parameter query request comprising: and inquiring the NS instance storage space or the VNF instance storage space by the A & AI based on the parameter to be inquired, determining the value information of the inquired parameter, and sending the value information to the VNF management module, so that the VNF management module obtains the value information of the parameter to be inquired.

Step 47: and for the parameters to be queried which are not in the VNF instance information parameter list, the VNF management module acquires the value information of the parameters to be queried through interaction with the service design and creation SDC module.

As another example, if some parameters to be queried included in the NS instance information query request do not exist in the VNF instance information parameter list, it may indicate that the parameters to be queried are not generated in the NS instantiation process, and the value information of the parameters to be queried is not stored in the a & AI, which is likely to be design data, and may be queried in the SDC module storing the design data, so that the value information of the parameters to be queried may be obtained through interaction with the SDC module.

According to the information query method provided by the embodiment of the invention, after the A & AI stores the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance, a VNF instance information parameter list is generated according to the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance and is sent to the VNF management module, the VNF management module updates the NS instance information in the VNF management module based on the received VNF instance information parameter list, so that when the NS instance information query request sent by a service requester is received by the VNF management module, the VNF management module can judge whether at least one parameter to be queried in the NS instance information query request is in the VNF instance information parameter list, if so, the value information of the parameter to be queried is obtained through interaction with the A & AI, and if not, the value information of the parameter to be queried is obtained through interaction with the SDC module. In the technical scheme, the VNF management module can determine the query position of the parameter to be queried, so that the value information of the parameter to be queried can be accurately obtained, and the problem of inaccurate query results caused by non-uniform data of a plurality of storage positions when service data are stored in the NFVO and the VNFM is avoided.

Exemplary, on the basis of the foregoing embodiments, fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of an interaction flow of a third embodiment of an information processing method provided in the embodiments of the present application. As shown in fig. 5, the above step 31 may be implemented by:

step 51: the VNF management module determines the identity of the NS instance according to the identity of the NS information model description template NSD carried in the NS instantiation request.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the VNF management module obtains an NS instantiation request of the service requester, where the NS instantiation request carries an NSD identifier, and the VNF management module may allocate an identifier to the instantiated NS according to the NSD identifier, that is, may determine the identifier of the NS instance.

Step 52: the VNF management module sends an NS instance storage space creation request to the a & AI.

Wherein the NS instance storage space creation request includes: identification of NS instance.

Optionally, in this embodiment, in order to reduce the processing burden of the system of the NVF, before instantiating an NS, the VNF management module first sends an NS instance storage space creation request to the a & AI to request the a & AI to create an NS instance storage space for storing NS instance information. The NS instance storage space creation request includes an identification of the NS instance for instructing the a & AI to create an NS instance storage space for the corresponding NS instance.

Step 53: the A & AI creates an NS instance storage space according to the received identification of the NS instance and a preset NS instance format.

Optionally, in this embodiment, a preset NS instance format is stored in the a & AI, for example, an instance format meeting the ONAP definition is satisfied, so the a & AI may create an NS instance storage space for the NS instance based on the identity of the NS instance in the NS instance storage space creation request and the preset NS instance format stored by itself.

Step 54: the a & AI sends the NS instance storage to the VNF management module.

In this embodiment, after creating the NS instance storage space, the a & AI may send it to the VNF management module, so that the VNF management module performs an instantiation operation on the NS instance according to the received NS instance storage space.

According to the information processing method provided by the embodiment of the application, a VNF management module determines an identifier of an NS instance according to the identifier of the NSD carried in an NS instantiation request, sends an NS instance storage space creation request to an A & AI, creates an NS instance storage space according to the received identifier of the NS instance and a preset NS instance format, and sends the NS instance storage space to the VNF management module. In the technical scheme, the VNF management module and the A & AI interact to create the NS instance storage space, so that a foundation is laid for storing NS instance information in the A & AI.

Exemplary, on the basis of the foregoing embodiments, fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of an interaction flow of a fourth embodiment of an information processing method provided in the embodiments of the present application. As shown in fig. 6, before the above step 33, the method may further include the steps of:

step 61: the VNF management module determines identities of all VNF instances included in the NS instance during an instantiation operation performed on the NS instance.

In this embodiment, during the process of executing the instantiation operation on the NS instance, the VNF management module first determines all VNFs included in the NS instance, and creates an instance identifier for each VNF, that is, determines identifiers of all VNF instances included in the NS instance. Illustratively, the VNF management module performs an instantiation operation on the NS instance, i.e., performs an instantiation operation on each VNF instance included by the NS instance.

Step 62: the VNF management module sends a VNF instance storage space creation request to the a & AI.

Wherein the VNF instance storage space request is for requesting creation of a VNF instance storage space for storing VNF instance information, the VNF instance storage space creation request includes: identification of all VNF instances.

Optionally, when each NS instance includes multiple VNF instances, the VNF management module may perform an instantiation operation on each VNF instance, and in performing the instantiation operation on each VNF instance, send a VNF instance storage space creation request to the a & AI to request to create VNF instance storage spaces for identities of each VNF instance, respectively, where each VNF instance storage space created is used to store the corresponding VNF instance information.

Step 63: the A & AI creates a VNF instance storage space according to a preset VNF instance format and the received identifiers of all the VNF instances.

In this embodiment, a preset VNF instance format is stored in the a & AI, for example, an instance format meeting the ONAP definition is satisfied, so the a & AI may create a VNF instance storage space for each VNF instance based on the received identifiers of all VNF instances and the preset VNF instance format stored by itself.

Step 64: the A & AI sends the created VNF instance storage space to the VNF management module.

In this embodiment, after creating each VNF instance storage space, the a & AI may send it to the VNF management module, so that after receiving each VNF instance storage space, the VNF management module may perform an instantiation operation on each VNF instance based on each VNF instance storage space.

In the information processing method provided by the embodiment of the present application, in the process of executing an instantiation operation on the NS instance, the VNF management module determines identifiers of all VNF instances included in the NS instance, and sends a VNF instance storage space creation request to the a & AI, and the a & AI creates a VNF instance storage space according to a preset VNF instance format and the received identifiers of all VNF instances, and sends the created VNF instance storage space to the VNF management module. In the technical scheme, the VNF management module and the A & AI interact to create the VNF instance storage space, so that a foundation is laid for storing information of each VNF instance in the A & AI.

Based on the description of the above embodiments, the information processing method will be specifically described below with respect to two ONAP architectures to which the information processing method is applied, respectively.

In one possible design of the embodiments of the present application, fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of an ONAP architecture provided in the embodiments of the present application. The open source network automation architecture (open network automation platform, ONAP) is an open source project, and the main function is to implement the MANO platform defined by ETSI NFV. Illustratively, as shown in FIG. 7, the ONAP architecture may include: an application scenario user interface (use case user interface, UUI)/virtual underlying resource deployer (Virtual Infrastructure Deployment, VID), a service design & creation module (SDC), a service orchestrator (service orchestrator, SO), a virtual function controller (virtual function controller, VFC), a running state database (active and available inventory, a & AI), and a Multi-virtualization infrastructure manager (Multi-virtualized infrastructure manager, multi-VIM).

The UUI/VID is a user interface system, on which a user may send a request to the ONAP system, for example, a request to instantiate an NS or VNF.

The SDC is a design-state tool of the ONAP, and is responsible for design and storage of VNF packages (including VNFD) and NSD.

In this embodiment, the UUI/VID and SDC are both in the design state related module, i.e. are used for service design.

The SO is a master organizer of the ONAP and is responsible for receiving externally transmitted lifecycle management requests such as instantiation.

The VFC comprises an NFVO and a VNFM, wherein the VNFM is divided into a G-VNFM and a vendor s-VNFM, and when the VNFM is the vendor s-VNFM, the VFC further comprises a plug-in unit for the NFVO to be in butt joint with the vendor s-VNFM.

The a & AI is responsible for storing all operational state data in the ONAP, including the instantiated NS instance data and VNF instance data.

The Multi-VIM provides management of the underlying resources, similar to the VIM in ETSI NFV architecture.

In the ONAP architecture, SO, VFC, A & AI and Multi-VIM all belong to running state projects and are responsible for deployment of services and other lifecycle management operations.

The architecture of the embodiment can see that the ONAP system is a design state and operation state separated architecture, and design state data and operation state data are maintained and stored by adopting different modules.

Fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of an interaction flow of an embodiment five of an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present application. This embodiment is implemented based on the ONAP architecture shown in fig. 7, and thus is implemented in an interaction of UUI/VID, SDC, SO, VFC, and a & AI. Specifically, as shown in fig. 8, the information processing method may include the steps of:

Step 81: the UUI/VID uploads the NSD file and VNF packages for all VNFs contained in the NSD file to the SDC.

The UUI/VID designs the NSD file based on the standard requirements of the ETSI NFV, and uploads the designed NSD file to the SDC through a user interface of the UUI/VID. The SDC authenticates and saves the NSD file for subsequent deployment of NS instances using the NSD file.

In this embodiment, the UUI/VID also uploads the VNF packages of all VNFs included in the NSD file to the SDC, so as to deploy VNF instances by using the VNF packages of all VNFs included in the NSD file.

Step 82: the UUI/VID sends an NS instantiation request to the SO.

The NS instantiation request includes the identity of the NSD file uploaded in step 81.

Step 83: the SO converts the NS instantiation request to an NS instance identification creation request.

In this embodiment, the SO first determines, according to the identifier of the NSD file in the received NS instantiation request, whether the NSD of the NS to be instantiated meets the ETSI NFV standard requirement, and if SO, converts the NS instantiation request into the NS instance identifier creation request by using the interface message defined by ETSI NFV.

Step 84: the SO sends the NS instance identification creation request to the VFC.

It is noted that the VFC in this embodiment includes the NFVO function and VNFM function defined in ETSI NFV.

Step 85: the VFC creates an NS instance identifier for the NS instance based on the identity of the NSD file.

Specifically, the VFC assigns an instance identifier to the NS that needs to be instantiated.

Step 86: the VFC returns the NS instance identification to the SO.

Step 87: the VFC sends an NS instance storage space creation request to the a & AI.

Wherein the NS instance storage space creation request includes: identification of NS instance. The NS instance storage space creation request is for application a & AI to create an NS instance storage space for storing NS instance information.

Step 88: the A & AI creates an NS instance storage space according to the received identification of the NS instance and a preset NS instance format.

Step 89: the a & AI feeds back the created NS instance storage space to the VFC.

Step 810: the SO sends an NS instantiation request to the VFC.

The NS instantiation request is realized by adopting an ETSI NFV standard interface message, and the NS instantiation request comprises an NS instance identifier returned by the VFC.

Step 811: the VFC executes an instantiation operation process on the NS instance, and executes an instantiation operation on all the VNs contained in the NS instance respectively to obtain the VNF instance information corresponding to all the VNF instances.

In this embodiment, the VFC performs NS instantiation operation by using the NFV standard procedure, and respectively instantiates all VNFs included in the NS, and in order to cooperate with the ONAP architecture, the VFC needs to apply a VNF instance storage space creation request to the a & AI for storing VNF instance information during the instantiation process.

The a & AI creates a VNF instance storage space based on a preset VNF instance format and the received identities of all VNF instances, and sends it to the VFC, which instantiates all VNFs contained in the NS based on the VNF instance storage space.

The specific format of the VNF instance storage space is illustrated as follows:

step 812: the VFC sends the obtained NS instance information and VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance to the a & AI.

Step 813: the A & AI stores the NS instance information into the NS instance storage space, and stores the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance into the VNF instance storage space.

When the VFC completes the instantiation process of the NS instance, i.e., after the NS instance is successfully created, the NS instance information is updated into the NS instance storage space of the a & AI, which also includes updating the instance information of all VNFs included in the NS into the VNF instance storage space of the a & AI. That is, the VFC returns all the values of the parameters obtained in the NS instantiation process to the a & AI for saving.

Step 814: and the A & AI generates a VNF instance information parameter list according to the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance and sends the VNF instance information parameter list to the VFC.

In this embodiment, the format of the VNF instance storage space in step 811 is not exactly the same as the vnfnfo defined by ETSI NFV, and thus, the a & AI returns the generated VNF instance information parameter list to the VFC.

Step 815: the VFC updates NS instance information according to the VNF instance information parameter list.

Step 816: the VFC returns an NS instantiation success response to the SO.

Step 817: the VFC receives an NS instance information query request sent by the UUI/VID.

Optionally, after the NS instance runs for a period of time, when the NS instance information needs to be queried, a NS instance information query request is sent to the SO through UUI/VID to query.

Step 818: for the parameter to be queried in the VNF instance information parameter list, the VFC acquires the value information of the parameter to be queried through interaction with the A & AI.

For example, if the queried parameter is in the VNF instance information parameter list, such as vnfState, VFC, then a parameter query request query is sent to a & AI to obtain the value information of the parameter to be queried.

Step 819: and for the parameters to be queried which are not in the VNF instance information parameter list, the VFC acquires the value information of the parameters to be queried through interaction with the SDC module.

In this embodiment, the parameter to be queried is compared with the received VNF instance information parameter list, for example, vnfsoftwarversion is queried, and in the ETSI NFV definition, the parameter is included in vnffnfo, but the parameter belongs to design data in ONAP, so that the parameter is not in the VNF instance information parameter list, and at this time, the VFC sends a parameter query request to the SDC to obtain the value information of the parameter to be queried.

Step 820: the VFC returns the value information of each parameter to be queried to the UUI/VID.

The implementation principles and advantages of this embodiment, which are not detailed in detail, may be described in the embodiments shown in fig. 1 to 6, and are not repeated here.

Illustratively, in another possible design of the embodiments of the present application, fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of another ONAP architecture provided by the embodiments of the present application. The architecture differs from the ONAP architecture in the embodiment shown in fig. 7 in that in this embodiment the NFVO is separated from the VFC, i.e. the NFVO exists independently of the VFC, SO that in this embodiment the VFC is replaced by a VNFM, which NFVO may be juxtaposed with SO as a orchestrator of the ONAP, where the NFVO is responsible for handling the deployment of NS and VNFs and other lifecycle management operations that meet ETSI NFV standards, and SO is responsible for handling the deployment of applications that employ other technologies.

For a specific description of each module included in the architecture, reference may be made to the descriptions in the embodiments shown in fig. 1 and fig. 7, which are not repeated here.

Fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of an interaction flow of an embodiment of an information processing method according to an embodiment of the present application. This embodiment is implemented based on the ONAP architecture shown in fig. 9, and thus is implemented in an interaction of UUI/VID, SDC, SO/NFVO, VNFM, and a & AI. Specifically, as shown in fig. 10, the information processing method may include the steps of:

step 101: the UUI/VID uploads the NSD file and VNF packages for all VNFs contained in the NSD file to the SDC.

Step 102: the UUI/VID sends an NS instance identification creation request to the SO/NFVO.

The NS instance identifier creation request includes an identifier of the NSD file uploaded in step 101.

Step 103: the SO/NFVO creates an NS instance identifier for the NS instance based on the identifier of the NSD file.

In this embodiment, this step is handled primarily by NFVO, since the NSD file complies with the ETSI NFV standard.

Step 104: the SO/NFVO returns the created NS instance identification to the UUI/VID.

Step 105: the SO/NFVO sends an NS instance storage space creation request to the A & AI.

Specifically, the NFVO creates a storage space for an NS instance for storing NS instance information from the a & AI application.

Step 106: the A & AI creates an NS instance storage space according to the received identification of the NS instance and a preset NS instance format.

Step 107: the A & AI feeds back the created NS instance storage space to the SO/NFVO.

Step 108: the UUI/VID sends an NS instantiation request to the SO/NFVO.

The NS instantiation request uses an ETSI NFV standard interface message, which includes the NS instance identifier received back in step 104.

Step 109: the SO/NFVO initiates a VNF instantiation request to the VNFM for the NS instance identity corresponding to the VNF contained in the NS.

Wherein the VNF instantiation request includes applying for a VNF instance identification to the VNFM.

Step 1010: the VNFM sends a VNF instance storage space creation request to the a & AI.

Wherein the VNF instance storage space creation request includes: identification of all VNF instances.

Step 1011: the A & AI creates a VNF instance storage space by adopting a preset VNF instance format and the received identifiers of all the VNF instances.

In this embodiment, the specific format of the storage space of the VNF instance is the same as that in the embodiment shown in fig. 9, and will not be described herein.

Step 1012: the A & AI feeds back the created VNF instance storage space to the VNFM.

Step 1013: and the VNFM executes an instantiation operation process on all the VNF examples based on the VNF example storage space to obtain NS example information and VNF example information corresponding to all the VNF examples.

Step 1014: and the VNM sends the NS instance information and the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance to the A & AI.

Step 1015: the A & AI stores the NS instance information into the NS instance storage space, and stores the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance into the VNF instance storage space.

Step 1016: and the A & AI generates a VNF instance information parameter list according to the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance and sends the VNF instance information parameter list to the VNFM.

Step 1017: the VNFM updates NS instance information according to the VNF instance information parameter list.

Step 1018: the VNFM returns an NS instantiation success response to the SO/NFVO.

Step 1019: the VNM receives an NS instance information query request sent by the UUI/VID.

Step 1020: and for the parameters to be queried in the VNF instance information parameter list, the VNFM acquires the value information of the parameters to be queried through interaction with the A & AI.

Step 1021: and for the parameters to be queried which are not in the VNF instance information parameter list, the VNFM acquires the value information of the parameters to be queried through interaction with the SDC module.

Step 1022: and the VNM returns the value information of each parameter to be queried to the UUI/VID.

The implementation principles and advantages of this embodiment, which are not detailed in the present embodiment, may be described in the embodiments shown in fig. 1 to 6 and the embodiment shown in fig. 8, which are not described herein.

The following are device embodiments of the present application, which may be used to perform method embodiments of the present application. For details not disclosed in the device embodiments of the present application, please refer to the method embodiments of the present application.

Fig. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of an information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application. The device is suitable for the VNF management module. As shown in fig. 11, the apparatus of this embodiment may include: an acquisition unit 111, a processing unit 112, and a transceiver unit 113.

The acquiring unit 111 is configured to acquire, based on the identity of the NS instance determined by the network service NS instantiation request, an NS instance storage space created by the a & AI through interaction with the running state database a & AI;

the processing unit 112 is configured to perform an instantiation operation on the NS instance based on the NS instance storage space, so as to obtain NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance and VNF instance information corresponding to all VNF instances included in the NS instance;

the transceiver unit 113 is configured to send the NS instance information and VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance to the a & AI, so that the a & AI stores the NS instance information in the NS instance storage space, and stores VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance in the VNF instance storage space.

Illustratively, in one possible design of this embodiment, the transceiver unit 113 is further configured to receive a VNF instance information parameter list generated and sent after the a & AI stores the VNF instance information, where the VNF instance information parameter list includes: parameters of the NS instance stored by the a & AI;

the processing unit 112 is further configured to update the NS instance information in the VNF management module according to the VNF instance information parameter list, where the NS instance information includes: the NS instance creates VNF instance and resource information in the instantiation process.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the transceiver unit 113 is further configured to receive an NS instance information query request sent by a service requester, where the NS instance information query request includes: at least one parameter to be queried;

the processing unit 112 is further configured to determine whether the at least one parameter to be queried is in the VNF instance information parameter list, and for parameters to be queried in the VNF instance information parameter list, obtain value information of the parameters to be queried by interacting with the running state database a & AI, and for parameters to be queried that are not in the VNF instance information parameter list, obtain value information of the parameters to be queried by interacting with a service design and creation SDC module.

Illustratively, in another possible design of the present embodiment, the obtaining unit 111 is configured to obtain, based on the identity of the NS instance determined by the network service NS instantiation request, the NS instance storage space created by the a & AI through interaction with the running state database a & AI, specifically:

the obtaining unit 111 is specifically configured to determine, according to an identifier of an NS information model description template NSD carried in a network service NS instantiation request, an identifier of the NS instance, send, by the transceiver unit 113, a request for creating a storage space of the NS instance to the a & AI, and receive, by the transceiver unit 113, the NS instance storage space created by the running database a & AI according to the identifier of the NS instance and a preset NS instance format, where the NS instance storage space creation request includes: and the identification of the NS instance.

Illustratively, in another possible design of this embodiment, the processing unit 112 is further configured to determine, before the transceiver unit 113 sends the NS instance information and VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance to the a & AI, identifiers of all VNF instances included in the NS instance during an instantiation operation performed on the NS instance;

The transceiver unit 113 is further configured to send a VNF instance storage space creation request to the a & AI, and receive the VNF instance storage space created by the running state database a & AI according to the identifiers of all VNF instances and a preset VNF instance format, where the VNF instance storage space request is used to request creation of a VNF instance storage space for storing VNF instance information, and the VNF instance storage space creation request includes: identification of all VNF instances.

For example, in another possible design of this embodiment, the processing unit 112 is configured to perform an instantiation operation on the NS instance based on the NS instance storage space, so as to obtain NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance and VNF instance information corresponding to all VNF instances included in the NS instance, where the VNF instance information includes:

the processing unit 112 is specifically configured to perform an instantiation operation process on the NS instance based on the NS instance parameter included in the NS instance storage space, obtain NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance parameter after the instantiation is successful, and perform an instantiation operation process on the NS instance, and respectively perform an instantiation operation on all VNFs included in the NS instance, so as to obtain VNF instance information corresponding to all VNF instances.

The device of the present embodiment may be used to execute the implementation scheme of the VNF management module in the method embodiments shown in fig. 3 to fig. 10, and the specific implementation manner and technical effects are similar, and are not repeated here.

Fig. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of a second embodiment of an information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present application. The device is suitable for A & AI. As shown in fig. 12, the apparatus of this embodiment may include: a processing unit 121, a transceiver unit 122 and a storage unit 123.

Wherein, the processing unit 121 is configured to create an NS instance storage space based on an NS instance storage space creation request of the VNF management module;

the transceiver unit 122 is configured to send the NS instance storage space to the VNF management module, and receive NS instance information sent by the VNF management module and VNF instance information corresponding to all VNF instances included in an NS instance corresponding to the NS instance information,

the storage unit 123 is configured to store the NS instance information into the NS instance storage space, and store VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance into the VNF instance storage space.

For example, in one possible design of this embodiment, the processing unit 121 is further configured to, after the storage unit 123 stores VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance in a VNF instance storage space, generate a VNF instance information parameter list according to VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance, where the VNF instance information parameter list includes parameters of the NS instance stored in the a & AI;

The transceiver unit 122 is further configured to send the VNF instance information parameter list to the VNF management module.

Exemplary, in the above possible design of this embodiment, if the VNF management module includes parameters to be queried in the VNF instance information parameter list in the NS instance information query request received from the service requester

The transceiver unit 122 is further configured to receive a parameter query request sent by the VNF management module, where the parameter query request includes: the parameters to be queried;

the processing unit 121 is further configured to determine value information of the parameter to be queried;

the transceiver unit 122 is further configured to send the value information of the parameter to be queried to the VNF management module.

Illustratively, in another possible design of the present embodiment, the processing unit 121 is configured to create, based on the NS instance storage space creation request of the VNF management module, an NS instance storage space, specifically:

the processing unit 121 is specifically configured to receive, by using the transceiver unit 122, an NS instance storage space creation request sent by the VNF management module, where the NS instance storage space creation request includes: and the identification of the NS instance and the creation of the NS instance storage space according to the identification of the NS instance and a preset NS instance format.

Illustratively, in another possible design of this embodiment, the transceiver unit 122 is further configured to, before receiving VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance sent by the VNF management module, receive a VNF instance storage space creation request sent by the VNF management module in a process of performing an instantiation operation on the NS instance, where the VNF instance storage space creation request is used to request creation of a VNF instance storage space for storing VNF instance information, and the VNF instance storage space creation request includes: identification of all VNF instances;

the processing unit 121 is further configured to create the VNF instance storage space according to the identifiers of all VNF instances and a preset VNF instance format;

the transceiver unit 122 is further configured to send the VNF instance storage space to the VNF management module.

The apparatus of this embodiment may be used to execute the implementation schemes of a & AI in the method embodiments shown in fig. 3 to 10, and the specific implementation manner and technical effects are similar, and are not repeated here.

It should be noted that, it should be understood that the division of the units of the above apparatus is merely a division of a logic function, and may be fully or partially integrated into one physical entity or may be physically separated. And these units may all be implemented in the form of software calls through the processing element; or can be realized in hardware; the method can also be realized in a form that a part of units are called by processing elements to be software, and the other part of units are realized in a form of hardware. For example, the processing unit may be a processing element that is set up separately, may be implemented as integrated in a chip of the above-mentioned apparatus, or may be stored in a memory of the above-mentioned apparatus in the form of program codes, and may be called by a processing element of the above-mentioned apparatus to execute the functions of the above-mentioned processing unit. The implementation of the other units is similar. Furthermore, all or part of these units may be integrated together or may be implemented independently. The processing element described herein may be an integrated circuit having signal processing capabilities. In implementation, each step of the above method or each unit above may be implemented by an integrated logic circuit of hardware in a processor element or an instruction in the form of software.

For example, the above units may be one or more integrated circuits configured to implement the above methods, such as: one or more specific integrated circuits (application specific integrated circuit, ASIC), or one or more microprocessors (digital signal processor, DSP), or one or more field programmable gate arrays (field programmable gate array, FPGA), or the like. For another example, when some of the above elements are implemented in the form of processing element scheduler code, the processing element may be a general purpose processor, such as a central processing unit (central processing unit, CPU) or other processor that may invoke the program code. For another example, the units may be integrated together and implemented in the form of a system-on-a-chip (SOC).

In the above embodiments, it may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When loaded and executed on a computer, produces a flow or function in accordance with embodiments of the present application, in whole or in part. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable apparatus. The computer instructions may be stored in a readable storage medium or transmitted from one readable storage medium to another readable storage medium, for example, the computer instructions may be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center by a wired (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, digital Subscriber Line (DSL)) or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The readable storage medium may be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device such as a server, data center, etc. that contains an integration of one or more available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., floppy disk, hard disk, magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., DVD), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., solid State Disk (SSD)), etc.

Fig. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of a third embodiment of an information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present application. The device is suitable for the VNF management module. As shown in fig. 13, the information processing apparatus may include: a transceiver 131, a controller/processor 132, and a memory 133.

In this embodiment of the present application, the transceiver 131 may be configured to send, to the a & AI, NS instance information and VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance obtained by the controller/processor 132, and receive information such as an NS instance storage space, a VNF instance storage space, and a VNF instance information parameter list sent by the a & AI.

The controller/processor 132 may control and manage the actions of the information processing apparatus to perform the steps of the VNF management module in the embodiments illustrated in fig. 3 to 10 and/or to perform other processes of the techniques described herein. For example, an identity of an NS instance determined based on an NS instantiation request, an NS instance storage space created by an a & AI is obtained by interacting with the a & AI, an instantiation operation is performed on an NS instance based on the NS instance storage space, and so on. As an example, the controller/processor 132 is for supporting the information processing apparatus to perform step 31 and step 32 in fig. 3.

The memory 133 is used to store program codes and data of the information processing apparatus. For example, the memory 133 may be used to store the acquired NS instance storage space, NS instance information and VNF instance information obtained by performing an instantiation operation on an NS instance, and the like, and to store execution instructions and execution results of the controller/processor 132.

The information processing apparatus of this embodiment may be used to execute the implementation scheme of the VNF management module in the method embodiments shown in fig. 3 to 10, and the specific implementation manner and technical effects are similar, and are not repeated here.

Fig. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a fourth embodiment of an information processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present application. The device is suitable for A & AI. As shown in fig. 14, the information processing apparatus may include: a transceiver 141, a controller/processor 142, and a memory 143.

In this embodiment of the present application, the transceiver 141 may be configured to send the created NS instance storage space, the VNF instance storage space, and the like to the VNF management module, and receive the NS instance information, the VNF instance information, and the like sent by the VNF management module.

The controller/processor 142 may control and manage the operation of the information processing apparatus for performing the various steps of a & AI in the embodiments of fig. 3-10 described above and/or for other processes of the techniques described herein. For example, for creating NS instance storage space, etc., based on the received identity of the NS instance and a preset NS instance format.

The memory 143 is used for storing program codes and data of the information processing apparatus. For example, the memory 143 may be configured to store the received NS instance information in an NS instance storage space, store the received VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance in a VNF instance storage space, and store execution instructions and execution results of the controller/processor 142.

The information processing apparatus of this embodiment may be used to execute the implementation schemes of a & AI in the method embodiments shown in fig. 3 to 10, and the specific implementation manner and technical effects are similar, and are not repeated here.

The embodiments of the present application also provide a storage medium, where instructions are stored, when the instructions run on a computer, cause the computer to execute the implementation of the VNF management module in the embodiments shown in fig. 3 to 10.

The embodiment of the present application also provides a chip for executing the instruction, where the chip is used to execute the implementation scheme of the VNF management module in the embodiments shown in fig. 3 to fig. 10.

The embodiments of the present application also provide a program, which when executed by a processor, is configured to perform the implementation of the VNF management module in the embodiments shown in fig. 3 to 10.

The embodiments of the present application also provide a computer program product, which when run on a computer, causes the computer to execute the implementation of the VNF management module in the embodiments shown in fig. 3 to 10.

The embodiments of the present application also provide a storage medium having instructions stored therein, which when executed on a computer, cause the computer to perform the implementation of a & AI in the embodiments shown in fig. 3-10, as described above.

The embodiment of the present application also provides a chip for executing the instruction, where the chip is used to execute the implementation of a & AI in the embodiments shown in fig. 3 to 10.

The present embodiments also provide a program, which when executed by a processor, is configured to perform the implementation of a & AI in the embodiments shown in fig. 3-10 and described above.

The embodiments of the present application also provide, for example, a computer program product which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to perform the implementation of a & AI in the embodiments shown in fig. 3-10 described above.

In the present application, "at least one" means one or more, and "a plurality" means two or more. "and/or", describes an association relationship of an association object, and indicates that there may be three relationships, for example, a and/or B, and may indicate: a alone, a and B together, and B alone, wherein a, B may be singular or plural. The character "/" generally indicates that the front and rear associated objects are an "or" relationship; in the formula, the character "/" indicates that the front and rear associated objects are a "division" relationship. "at least one of" or the like means any combination of these items, including any combination of single item(s) or plural items(s). For example, at least one (one) of a, b, or c may represent: a, b, c, a-b, a-c, b-c, or a-b-c, wherein a, b, c may be single or plural.

It will be appreciated that the various numerical numbers referred to in the embodiments of the present application are merely for ease of description and are not intended to limit the scope of the embodiments of the present application.

It should be understood that, in the embodiments of the present application, the sequence number of each process described above does not mean that the execution sequence of each process should be determined by the function and the internal logic of each process, and should not constitute any limitation on the implementation process of the embodiments of the present application.

Claims

1. An information processing method, adapted to a VNF management module for a virtualized network function, the method comprising:

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the method further comprises:

4. A method according to any of claims 1-3, wherein the obtaining the NS instance storage space created by the a & AI by interacting with the run-state database a & AI based on the identity of the NS instance determined by the web service NS instantiation request comprises:

5. The method of any of claims 1-4, wherein before the sending the NS instance information and VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance to the a & AI, the method further comprises:

6. The method of any one of claims 1-4, wherein the performing an instantiation operation on the NS instance based on the NS instance storage space to obtain NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance and VNF instance information corresponding to all VNF instances included in the NS instance includes:

7. An information processing method, adapted to an operation state database a & AI, comprising:

sending the NS instance storage space to the VNF management module;

8. The method of claim 7, wherein after storing the VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance in the VNF instance storage space, the method further comprises:

9. The method of claim 8, wherein if the VNF management module includes parameters to be queried in the VNF instance information parameter list in an NS instance information query request received from a service requester, the method further comprises:

determining the value information of the parameter to be queried;

10. The method of any of claims 7-9, wherein creating the NS instance storage space based on the NS instance storage space creation request of the VNF management module comprises:

11. The method of any of claims 7-10, wherein prior to the receiving VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance sent by the VNF management module, the method further comprises:

and sending the VNF instance storage space to the VNF management module.

12. An information processing apparatus adapted to virtualize a network function VNF management module, the apparatus comprising: the device comprises an acquisition unit, a processing unit and a receiving and transmitting unit;

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to receive a VNF instance information parameter list generated and transmitted after the a & AI stores the VNF instance information, the VNF instance information parameter list comprising: parameters of the NS instance stored by the a & AI;

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to receive an NS instance information query request sent by a service requester, the NS instance information query request comprising: at least one parameter to be queried;

15. The apparatus according to any one of claims 12-14, wherein the obtaining unit is configured to obtain, based on the identity of the NS instance determined by the network service NS instantiation request, the NS instance storage space created by the a & AI by interacting with the running state database a & AI, specifically:

16. The apparatus according to any one of claims 12-15, wherein the processing unit is further configured to determine, before the transceiver unit sends the NS instance information and VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance to the a & AI, identities of all VNF instances included in the NS instance during an instantiation operation performed on the NS instance;

17. The apparatus of any one of claims 12-15, wherein the processing unit is configured to perform an instantiation operation on the NS instance based on the NS instance storage space, to obtain NS instance information corresponding to the NS instance and VNF instance information corresponding to all VNF instances included in the NS instance, specifically:

18. An information processing apparatus adapted to an operation state database a & AI, the apparatus comprising: the device comprises a processing unit, a receiving and transmitting unit and a storage unit;

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the processing unit is further configured to generate a VNF instance information parameter list according to VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance after the storage unit stores VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance into a VNF instance storage space, the VNF instance information parameter list including parameters of the NS instance stored by the a & AI;

20. The apparatus of claim 19, wherein if the VNF management module includes parameters to be queried in the VNF instance information parameter list in an NS instance information query request received from a service requester

21. The apparatus according to any of the claims 18-20, wherein the processing unit is configured to create the NS instance storage space based on the NS instance storage space creation request of the VNF management module, in particular:

22. The apparatus of any one of claims 18-21, wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to, before receiving VNF instance information corresponding to each VNF instance sent by the VNF management module, receive a VNF instance storage space creation request sent by the VNF management module in performing an instantiation operation on the NS instance, the VNF instance storage space creation request being for requesting creation of a VNF instance storage space for storing VNF instance information, the VNF instance storage space creation request including: identification of all VNF instances;

23. An information processing apparatus comprising a processor, a memory and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, characterized in that the processor implements the method according to any of the preceding claims 1-6 when executing the program.

24. An information processing apparatus comprising a processor, a memory and a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, characterized in that the processor implements the method according to any of the preceding claims 7-11 when executing the program.

25. A storage medium having stored therein instructions which, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any of claims 1-6.

26. A storage medium having stored therein instructions which, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of any of claims 7-11.