Attributes

Data Type

Description

tenant

list

List of tenants.

name

string

Name of the tenant.

managed_resource

boolean

If true, the tenant is created, used and deleted. If false, tenant is only used by ESC. The default is true.

extensions

container

extension

list

Tenant level associated extensions. e.g. quota

deployments (For Deploying VNFs without Service Registration)

deployment

list

List of deployment.

name

string

Name of the deployment.

extensions

container

extension

list

Deployment level associated extensions. e.g. VMWARE_VCD_PARAMS

locators

container

Contains VIM-specific resource locator properties for VMWARE multi VDC.  Only to support VMWare Multi VDC.

        support in single VIM deployments.

datacenter

string

Specifies the datacenter where the deployment will be done. Supported only in VMWare.

placement

list

Placement policy specification. Specifying it as a list allows us to define different placement policies among different combination of vm_groups

placement_group

list

Placement group policy specification. This policy will allow defining the placement policy and the VM group that will be part of this policy.

Policies

Container

Describes different policies that can be specified that will affect the way VMs are brought up.

Policy

list

The policy list that contains a list of conditions and a list of actions

name

string

Specifies the unique name (within deployment) of the policy

conditions

Container

The lifecycle stage conditions to trigger actions

Condition

list

List of conditions on which this policy relies.

Name

String

Specifies condition on which this policy relies. ESC provides a list of supported conditions

Actions

Container

The actions that will be triggered if conditions are satisfied

Action

List

List of actions which this policy triggers

Name

String

Specifies name of the action to be triggered. Some action names are pre-defined in ESC.

Type

Enum (SCRIPT or PRE_DEFINED).

Specifies the type of action

Properties

Container

Contains a list of name/value <property>

file_locators

Container

List of file locators

file_locator

list

Each file locator is to specify the local or remote file that can be referenced in LCS, Day 0 or KPI Section.  The remote_file  can be used with authentication support using file server.

local_file

Container

File path on local file system

remote_file

Container

Name of the File Server definition to connect to.

deployment_groups

anti_affinity_group

String

Specifies the name of the anti-affinity group that this deployment pertains to. A deployment can pertain to zero or multiple anti_affinity_groups. Supported in Openstack ONLY.

vm_group

vm_group

list

This section allows you to define properties such as number of interfaces, type of monitoring, monitoring frequency, type of events, scaling mechanism, elasticity properties, and so on for each VM in this group. This represents a type of VM. For example, if one needs two webservers in a deployment, only one VM instance is defined and number of instances is set to 2 in the scaling section. If there are two types of VMs, for example a webserver and a database server, then such a service will have two vm_groups: one for webserver and another for database server.

name

string

Describes the name of the VM group.

placement

container

Placement policy specification. Specifying it as a list allows us to define different placement policies among different combination of vm_groups.

locator

container

Indicates multi VIM capable configuration with VIM explicitly defined.

vim_id

string

Specifies the ESC defined id of the target VIM to apply the

          configuration.

vim_project

string

Specifies the name of the target project to apply the configuration.

vim_region

string

Specifies the name of the target region to apply the configuration (AWS Only).

vim_vdc

string

Specifies the name of the target virtual datacenter to apply the configuration (vCloud Director Only).

type

enum (affinity/anti- affinity/host_placement/zone_placement/z one-host)

affinity/anti_affinity/host_placement/zone_place ment.

enforcement

enum (strict/loose)

Strict or Loose.

host

string

Host on which the VMs of group specified above should be deployed on.

zone

string

Zone on which the VMs of group specified above should be deployed on.

bootup_time

integer

Time in seconds that the VM takes to perform a cold boot. ESC waits for bootup_time and in this time frame if VM does not come up due to any reason, ESC starts recovery timer.

reboot_time

integer

Time in seconds that the VM takes to perform a normal reboot. If not specified, it will use bootup_time value

recovery_wait_time

integer

Time in seconds for the VM to perform a normal warm reboot.

ESC waits for recovery wait time and then starts the recovery as defined in the dep.xml (reboot, redeploy or reboot/Redeploy).

Reboot and deploy actions may be performed three times (or as per config) before ESC decides if VM is deployed or not deployed.

recovery_policy

container

Specifies the type of recovery policy.

action_on_recovery

enum

Specifies the type of recovery policy. Values are REBOOT_THEN_REDEPLOY, REBOOT_ONLY,

REDEPLOY_ONLY. The default is REBOOT_THEN_REDEPLOY

recovery_type

enum

The type of recovery.  Values are AUTO, MANUAL. The default is AUTO.

max_retries

integer

The number of recovery attempts. The default is  3

image

string

Refers to the pre-existing image or template on the VIM.

Image term is applicable to the OpenStack environment and Template is applicable to the VMware VIM.

flavor

string

Refers to the pre-existing flavor on the VIM. This is applicable only on the OpenStack environment.

vim_vm_name

 string

User specified name for the VM on the VIM

software_version

String

Software version of the VM group.  The software version along with life cycle stages will enable the VM or VNF to perform software upgrade.

volumes

If size and sizeunit is provided, ESC will create the volume else it will find the volume in the VIM with the given details.

name

string

Specifies the display name.

volid

string

Specifies the order in which the out-of- band volume is attached.

bus

enum

Specifies the bus type of the volume to be attached.

type

string

(Optional) Specify the type to match the volume with the type provided by ESC.

size

integer

(Optional) Size of the Volume.

sizeunit

enum

Size units. MiB/GiB/TiB/PiB/EiB".

boot_index

integer

Specify the boot order for bootable volumes.

Interface (list)

Specifies number of interfaces and properties for each interface. The order of the interfaces specified here does not correspond to the order of the interfaces in the VM.

Interface list can be choice between creating a new interface or port or use an existing port.  In case of new interface, ESC will create the interface while creating the VM or VNF.  As part of this, user could configure the interface to be DHCP or static and other port configurations.

In case of existing port, user will be able to add the port to VM or VNF but cannot add additional configuration.

nicid

integer

Logical ID for the interfaces. This is used later in the KPI section to link on which nic the monitoring should happen.

vim_interface_name

string

User specified name for the interface on the VIM

model

enum

In case of vitrual: e1000 or virtio. In case of passthrough: Model of the NIC. This will be specific to the data center. Datacenters may have NICs that support virtual functions from

different vendors, like Intel, Cisco etc. The default is virtio.

mac_address

ietf-macaddress

Static MAC address for this interface.

network

string

Network to which this interface needs to be attached.

 choice single_subnet_or_multiple

Choose between subnet/ip_address or addresses. The container addresses was added to support multiple subnet/ip_address combination. This is needed for VNF  to support dual stack interface or multiple IP configuration per interface.

subnet

string

Subnet within the network to where the port needs to be created.

ip_address

ietf-ipaddress

Static IP address for this interface.

addresses

container

Support dual stack interface or multiple IP configuration per interface.

address

list

List of subnet and ip_address

address_id

uint16

Id for the address in address list.

subnet

String

Subnet name or uuid for allocating IP to this port

ip_address

ietf-ipaddress

Static IP address for this specific subnet

type

enum

Interface Type . Values are virtual, passthru, direct, macvtap. The default value is virtual. Configures Single Root I/O Virtualization.

Setting the type of interface as direct configures SR-IOV.

port_security_enabled

boolean

Whether the port security is enabled at port level

public_ip_address

ietf-ipaddress

Public IP address for this interface

security_groups

container

Containter for security group(s) set for this instance

security_group

string

IP filter rules that determine access control for the VM instance

allowed_address_pairs

container

he allowed address is allows one to specify arbitrary mac_address/ip_address(cidr) pairs that are allowed to pass through a port regardless of subnet.

network

list

Network allowed on this interface.

name

string

Network name or uuid.

address

list

Allowed address on this interface.

Ip_address

ietf-ipaddress

Ip address or Subnet address for this network.

netmask

ietf-ipaddress

Netmask for the subnet address

Ip_prefix

string

Prefix length for subnet address, represented by integer.  For IPv4 address range is 0 - 32. For IPv6 address range is 0 - 128."

port

string

The interface refers to an existing port. 

Monitoring

monitoring data

list

Specify the monitoring rules that will be used to configure the monitor module with in ESC.

event_name

string

A user defined event name. Corresponding event name should exist in the rules section.

Monitor module informs the event generator

when the event has to be triggered.VM_ALIVE

monitoring_agent

uri

It specifies the monitor for VNF, e.g. local MONA or distributed MONA.

nicid

integer

Interface that should be used to monitor the metric. This is used when proxy is not used. Ensure that interface with this ID is specified earlier

address_id

integer

Address within the interface that should be used to monitor the metric. This is used when proxy is not used and nicid interface has multiple addresses. Ensure that an address with this ID is specified earlier

metric_value

string

Threshold value that should be checked by monitor module.

metric_cond

enum (GT, LT, EQ, GE, LE)

Supported conditions for the metric are GT, LT, EQ, GE, LE.

metric_type

integer

Supported metric types are INT8, UINT8, INT16, UINT16, INT32, UINT32, FLOAT, DOUBLE, STRING.

metric_occurrences_tr ue

integer

Number of successive polling cycles monitoring module finds the condition to be true before sending an event

metric_occurrences_fal se

integer

Number of successive polling cycles monitoring module finds the condition to be false before sending an event

metric_collector

container

This section provides information about the metrics that needs to be monitored and at what frequency should the monitoring happen.

type

string

Type that monitor module should monitor. Example: ICMP Ping. These are the types that are supported by the monitoring module. List of all supported names is monitor module dependent and the reader is advised to refer to the documentation of the monitor module used in a specific implementation.

poll_frequency

integer

Frequency with which the metric should be polled by the monitor module.

polling_unit

enum (minutes, seconds)

Units of poll frequency in seconds or minutes.

rules

admin_rules

container

These are the rules that an administrator specifies when the service is registered. This action is taken for each and every deployment of the service.

rule

list

Actions that should be taken by ESC or by some other module on behalf of ESC when an event is triggered by the event. Every rule will

have a name and an action script associated

with it. The action script is a URL from where ESC downloads the script and executes when and event corresponding.

event_name

string

Corresponding event name must be present in the monitoring section.

action

string

Action associated with the above event. Values are ALWAYS log, TRUE servicebooted.sh, FALSE recover auto healing. There is a specific format for this and the description must be updated with more useful information.

scaling

scaling

container

Specifies how many instances of a particular type of VM needs to be instantiated and whether elastic scale in and scale out is required.

min_active

integer

Describes the minimum number of VMs in the deployment. Irrespective of what the load is on these VMs, ESC ensures at least the minimum number of service VMs will always be running.

max_active

integer

Describes the maximum number of active VMs to be activated by ESC. New VMs are activated when the load increases.

elastic

container

Request elastic scale-in and scale-out. By default the value is set to true.

static_ip_address_pool

string

Lists the IP addresses.

placement

string

Specifies the type of VM placement.

type

string (host/zone/zone-host)

Specifies the type of VM placement. Values are host, zone, zone-host.

zone

string

Specifies the cluster.

config_data

configuration

container

This enables to pass day-0 configuration data into the service VM. There are two ways: File, and inline data. In either case a CDROM is

created with the contents of the configuration data and is attached to the VM.  file_locator_name is newly added to refer to the file locator defined at deployment.

Note: file_locators is deprecated

config_type

String

Defines how ESC will process the configuration data. The default is CREATE_ISO

If value is not present, ESC will pass the files from configuration list without attempting any conversion to ISO or etc.

config_options

container

Defines the options required to create the ISO file.

Configuration

List

This represents a list of configuration files/templates. This being a list allows one to specify multiple day-0 configurations.

Attributes

Data Type

Description

name

string

Name of the network.

shared

boolean

True if the network is shared among other tenants. Default is True

admin_state

boolean

Specifies whether the admin state is up or down. Set to true for up and false for down. If down, the network does not forward packets.

router_external

boolean

Indicates whether this network is externally accessible.

provider_physical_network

String

Specifies the name of the physical network over which the virtual network is implemented.

provider_network_type

String

specifies the physical mechanism by which the Virtual network is implemented.

provider_segmentation_id

Int

ID or tunnel ID of the underlying physical network

vlan_id

Int

(VMWare only) Specifies the vlan id to assign to this port group

number_of_ports

int

(VMWare only) Specifies the number of ports to allocate on the port group

switch_name

(VMWare only) Specifies the name of the switch

locators

Legacy locator used to identify the Virtual data center

multi_vim_locators

Locate the vim in a multi vim environment.

subnet

Create subnet under the network.

name

String

Name of the subnet

ipversion

String

IP Version – IPv4 or IPv6

dhcp

boolean

Are IP address for the VMs on this network are to be allocated by DHCP

address

etf-inet-types:ip-address

Subnet address for this network

netmask

etf-inet-types:ip-address

Subnet mask represented by IP address.

ip_prefix

String

Subnet mask represented by IP prefix

gateway

etf-inet-types:ip-address

Default GW for the network. If un specified ESC will try to determine the gateway for the network.

no_gateway

boolean

no gateway for the network. It will ignore gateway setting

Attributes

Data Type

Description

name

string

Name of the image.

src

string

Indicates to ESC the source of the image. It could be either a URL from which ESC will download the image (http://...), or a file location path on the ESC VM itself (file://...).

disk_format

enum (qcow2, raw, vmdk)

Describes the format of the disk. For example, qcow.

container_format

enum (bare)

Describes the format of the container. For example, bare.

serial_console

boolean

Set to true if the image has serial console.

disk_bus

enum (ide, scsi, virtio)

Root disk bus. The values are ide, scsi, or virtio.

visibility

string

Specifies whether image should be created as public or private. The default value is public. The values are public or private.

locators

container

Contains VIM-specific resource locator properties.

datacenter

string

Specifies the datacenter where the image will be created. Supported only in VMWare.

Attributes

Data Type

Description

name

string

Name of the flavor.

vcpus

integer

Number of virtual CPUs per VM instance.

memory_mb

integer

Amount of memory in Mega Bytes per VM instance.

root_disk_mb

integer

Virtual root disk size in gigabytes. This is an ephemeral disk the base image is copied into. You don't use it when you boot from a persistent volume. The "0" size is a special case that uses the native base image size as the size of the ephemeral root volume.

ephemeral_disk_mb

integer

Specifies the size of a secondary ephemeral data disk. This is an empty, un- formatted disk and exists only for the life of the instance.

swap_disk_mb

integer

Optional swap space allocation for the instance.

name

string

Specifies the name of a PCI device to pass through the OpenStack interface.

value

integer

Specifies the value of a property.

Attributes

Data Type

Description

name

string

Name of the Volume.

size

Int

Size of the Volume

sizeunit

enum

Size units. MiB/GiB/TiB/PiB/EiB

image

String

Name or UUID of the source image

type

String

Allows to provide scheduling to a specific back-end, and also can be used to specify specific information for a back-end storage device to act upon.