Resource Reservation and Resource Capacity Management are features to be supported by the VIM and exposed to the consumer via the VIM NBI. These features have been specified by ETSI NFV.
This document has described several use cases and corresponding high level flows where Resource Reservation and Capacity Management are of great benefit for the consumer of the virtualised resource management interface: the NFVO or the VNFM. The use cases include:
The Promise project has performed a gap analysis in order to fulfill the required functionality. Based on the gap analysis an implementation plan an architecture, information model and northbound interface has been specified.