Before deploying a VNF in a data center, you must add at least one VIM. Kaspersky SD-WAN uses the VIM of the OpenStack cloud platform that provides all of its key capabilities, such as network virtualization, virtual machine management, and load balancing.
Manages computational, networking, and storage resources within the NFV infrastructure. Serves to connect network functions with virtual links, subnets, and ports.
Can be deployed in the data center or on a uCPE device. Deploying the VIM in the data center implies centralized management of the VNF lifecycle, while a VIM deployed on a uCPE device allows delivering VNFs to remote locations and managing these VNFs locally. The deployed VIM must be added in the orchestrator web interface.
The OpenStack cloud platform is used as the VIM.
Network functions implemented as virtual machines on Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) computer platforms.