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VIM Management Overview
The virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) in a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) implementation manages the hardware and software resources that the service provider uses to create service chains and deliver network services to customers. The network service orchestration component notifies the VIM when a customer activates a network service. In the Cloud CPE Centralized Deployment Model, Contrail OpenStack provides the VIM, and Network Service Orchestrator provides the network service orchestration. The Contrail Cloud Reference Architecture (CCRA) provides the hardware and software resources for the creation of service chains and for delivery of network services in the service provider’s cloud.
You create one VIM object for each POP in your network. Because the CCRA provides the VIM, you specify several Contrail OpenStack settings when you create a VIM.
The VIM Management page displays some of the settings for a VIM. For complete information about the settings for a VIM, see VIM Configuration Fields.
