Supports the Instantiate NS backend operations and workflows which do the following sequence:

<Instantiate NS: note: the following workflow is a template, and it can be enhanced as needed.>

• Supports SOL005-compliant InstantiateNSRequest request and parameters
  • Creates BPMN workflows and business logic for the following Instantiate NS operations
    • Create a Job Id
      • Updates NS_Instance Status to INSTANTIATING to the NFVO NS Instance database table
      • Handles input parameters from the InstantiateNsRequest
        • additionalParamsForNs
          • the VnfProfileId is the vnf descriptor id from the tosca.nodes.nfv.VNF vnf_profile (tosca.datatypes.nfv.VnfProifle) properties in NSD
            • note: the VnfProfile data type properties are: instantiation_Level, min_number_of_instances, max_number_of_instances
            • note: this property is only used in an NSD service template when describing a VNF node template with the corresponding VnfProfile information.
          • pass vim_id with tenant id
        • additionalParamsForVnf
          • If it is provided in the request, use use additionalParamsForVnf attributes
          • Otherwise, formulate additionalParams for SOL003 Adapter invocation, from the NSD
          • pass vim_id tenent id
          • use of VNF input for additionalParamsForVnf is under investigation
        • pseudo logic:
          • plan_input = job_id, ns_inst_id, dst_plan, additionalParamsForNs, additionalParamsForVnf, additionalParamsForPnf
          • dst_plan = get nsd with the given nspackage_id, input parameters
          • Gets an ns instance id from the parameter
          • Gets job id and occ id from the NS LCM Mgr
        • Gets VNF VIM from the location_constraints
          • Gets NSD from ETSI Catalog Manager and parses NSD (by using either SDC parser or ETSI Catalog Manager parser)
            • Note: until either SDC parser or ETSI Catalog Manager parser is ready, use the current SO NFVO internal TOSCA parser
          • If ETSI Catalog Manage parser is used, use the following ETSI Catalog Manager API:
            curl -X POST /api/parser/v1/parsernsd' \

                                                               -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \

                                                               --data-raw '

                                                               {     "csarId": "csarid",     "packageType": "ns",     "inputs": "[]" }

                                                               '

• Updates NFVO_INST db to modify nsd model
• Gets VNFs from the NSD
• For each VNF, invokes the SOL003 Adapter with SOL003-compliant requests
  • To call the SOL003 Adapter, use the current SOL003 Adapter Rest API (which is internal to SO)
    • Note: exposing ETSI SOL003-compliant SOL003 Adapter REST API will be handled by the separate user story (most likely in the Honolulu release). 
    • The SOL003 Adapter internal REST API will be enhanced to carry additional attribute(s), such as tenant id, VNF package id
    • The Create VNF internal API in SOL003 Adapter will invoke both Create and Instantiate VNFs
    • Send parameters such as vnfd_id, vnfm_type, vimId, s_vimId (with "cloud_owner"_"cloud_regionid") and tenant id to the SOL003 Adapter
    • For Granting VNF, support VNF granting based on the existing SOL003 Adapter.
  • Note: Currently SOL003 adapter uses “ModelVersionId" from generic-vnf to retrieve the VNFD from SDC/etsi catalog. In order to create generic-vnf it also need model invariant id because of the relationship defined between generic-vnf and service-design-and-creation/models.
• Supports VirtualLink connections between VNFs
  • Supports createVLs (call MultiCloud through MultiCloud Adapter)
    • Follow the Create VLs user story
• Updates NFVO_NSINST db table: update NFVO_NSINST with the nsd model
• Sets job status = NS Instantiate ends
• Updates NsLcmOpOCC to COMPLETED
• Note: Sends nsLcmOperationOccurrenceNotification
  • Note: this notification will be handled by a separate notification and subscription user story.