公开(公告)号：US11146623B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-12

申请号：US16823341

申请日：2020-03-19

Applicant: VMWARE, INC.

Inventor： Mahesh Jethanandani ,  Sachin Thakkar ,  Venu Gopala Rao Kotha ,  Akshatha Sathyanarayan ,  Shruti Parihar

IPC: G06F15/173 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: An orchestrator process can efficiently distribute images of virtual network functions (“VNFs”) in a telco network. The images can be accompanied by metadata that describes VNF requirements, such as computing requirements and functional characteristics. Based on the image metadata and location of a virtual infrastructure manager (“VIM”), the orchestrator can select a storage location and deploy the image to the storage location. The VIM can instantiate a corresponding VNF by retrieving the image. The orchestrator can track the storage location and cause the VIM to delete the image if the image is not used for a threshold period of time.

公开(公告)号：US20230069604A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-02

申请号：US17893155

申请日：2022-08-22

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Giridhar Subramani Jayavelu ,  Mahesh Jethanandani

IPC: G06F8/65 ,  G06F9/54

Abstract: Some embodiments use CRDs (custom resource definitions) to define resources in an O-RAN system. These resources include applications (xApps, rApps, etc.), components of these applications, deployment constructs, cloud constructs, AI/ML models and RTE constructs. Using these CRD descriptors, app developers can develop and distribute their applications in a platform independent manner. The CRDs of some embodiments are used to on board applications into an O-RAN system. In some embodiments, the SMO (Service, Management and Orchestration) framework of the O-RAN system has a service for processing CRDs. In some of these embodiments, this SMO service has one controller to process the new application CRD. In some embodiments, the SMO identifies clouds for placements of the deployed applications and directs Kubernetes managers of the identified clouds to deploy the applications.