About the Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition Platform Upgrade Guide

This Platform Upgrade Guide provides information for upgrading VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure™ – Cloud Director™ Edition from 2.2 to 3.0 based on the VMware Telco Cloud Reference Architecture Guide 3.0.

This guide provides only high-level steps that are essential to upgrade the Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition platform. For more details, refer to the product documentation of each component in Telco Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Director Edition.

Note:

To upgrade the Telco Cloud Infrastructure platform, you must be knowledgeable on the deployment and configuration of the Telco Cloud Infrastructure components.

Acronyms and Definitions

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

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