Management and Orchestration

The NFV orchestrator is responsible for creating, maintaining and tearing down VNF network services.

If multiple VNFs are part of a network service, the NFV orchestrator enables the creation of an end-to-end network service over multiple VNFs.

The VNF manager manages the lifecycle of one or multiple VNFs as well as FCAPS for the virtual components of a VNF.

The NFV orchestrator and VNF manager together are known as NFV management and orchestration (MANO)