About the Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition Platform Upgrade Guide

This Platform Upgrade Guide provides information for upgrading VMware vCloud^® NFV™ to VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure™ – Cloud Director™ Edition based on the vCloud NFV Reference Architecture. Telco Cloud Infrastructure maintains the design and framework of vCloud NFV to be a fully integrated, modular, multi-tenant telco cloud infrastructure solution.

This guide provides only high-level steps that are essential to upgrade the vCloud NFV platform to the Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition platform. Procedures in this guide are validated in VMware labs. This guide is best referred together with the product documentation of each component of Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for users who upgrade vCloud NFV to Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition. To upgrade vCloud NFV to Telco Cloud Infrastructure, you must have knowledge about the deployment and configuration of the vCloud NFV components.

Acronyms and Definitions

This guide uses a specific set of acronyms that apply to the NFV technology and the Telco industry.

Acronym	Definition
NFVI	Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure
N-VDS (E)	Enhanced mode when using the N-VDS logical switch of VMware NSX-T™ Data Center. This mode enables DPDK for workload acceleration.
N-VDS (S)	Standard mode when using the N-VDS logical switch of NSX-T Data Center.
VIM	Virtualized Infrastructure Manager
VNF	Virtual Network Function