Apple Inc.
Systems, methods and devices for virtual resource metric management

Abstract:

Resource usage data of a virtual machine (VM) instance is collected by an agent to be delivered to the network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) for conversion to virtual resource usage metrics to be provided to a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) for transmission of a virtual resource usage measurement to a virtualized network function manager (VNFM). For example, an agent executing on a compute node receives virtual resource data from a compute node hypervisor. The agent provides the virtual resource data to the NFVI. The NFVI converts the virtual resource data to virtual resource usage metrics using a publishing pipeline. The NFVI uses the publishing pipeline to report the virtual resource usage metrics to a virtualized infrastructure manager. The VIM uses the data to provide virtual resource usage measurements to a virtualized network function manager (VNFM).