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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2021
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
The present embodiments provide a method for managing a hardware resource, a method for querying a location of a hardware resource, and a related apparatus. The method for managing a hardware resource includes receiving, by a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM), a hardware resource allocation request message sent by a VNF management entity, where the hardware resource allocation request message is used to request the VIM to allocate a hardware resource to a virtual machine that runs a VNFC, and the hardware resource allocation request message includes location information of the hardware resource that the virtual machine requests to allocate. The method also includes allocating, by the VIM, the hardware resource at a corresponding location to the virtual machine according to the location information of the hardware resource.