Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Release 2; Acceleration Technologies; Management Aspects Specification

The present document specifies functional requirements for both the Virtualised Infrastructure Manager (VIM) and the NFV Infrastructure (NFVI), for NFV acceleration from an infrastructure management perspective. This includes the controlling and management of acceleration resources, e.g. allocation, release and discovery of acceleration resources. The present document also identifies the corresponding impacts on VIM related specifications regarding functional requirements ETSI GS NFV-IFA 010 and reference points (ETSI GS NFV-IFA 005 and ETSI GS NFV-IFA 006).