About this document
Purpose
The NSP Planning Guide is intended for technology officers, network planners, and system administrators who need the information required to plan a successful deployment of the Nokia Network Services Platform, or NSP. The reader is encouraged to become familiar with the NSP architecture, the relevant components for both IP and optical networks, and the virtualization, system, and network requirements.
Scope
The scope of this document is limited to the planning of an NSP deployment. The guide provides an overview of the NSP product and the components that comprise an NSP deployment, including the NFM-P. The guide also describes operating-system specifications, and system resource and network requirements for successful NSP system deployment. Scale limits and general information about platform security recommendations are also included.
NFM-P only deployments
Starting in Release 22.3, NSP and NFM-P components in a greenfield deployment must be deployed in shared mode; independent greenfield NFM-P installations are not supported. Support remains unchanged for brownfield upgrades of independent NFM-P systems.
This document combines the previously issued NSP Planning Guide and the NFM-P Planning Guide as one reference for planning an NSP or NFM-P deployment. Planning the upgrade of an independent Release 22.3 or earlier NFM-P system requires a review of the NFM-P-specific content, and content related to any NSP components, such as analytics servers, that your deployment may include. In such a brownfield upgrade scenario, content specific to NSP cluster deployment does not apply. For example, in an NFM-P-only deployment, you can safely use the NFM-P scaling values, and ignore the NSP values.
Safety information
For your safety, this document contains safety statements. Safety statements are given at points where risks of damage to personnel, equipment, and operation may exist. Failure to follow the directions in a safety statement may result in serious consequences.
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