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Prior to instantiating the D-Whether you use Heat templates or VNFM to instantiate SBC SWe Cloud on OpenStack, you must upload the SBC software qcow2 image of the SBC must be uploaded to the Glance image repository prior to deploying. Refer to the current release notes for the specific file name of the qcow2 file to download and use the following procedure to download the file: Downloading the SBC SWe Software Package.

You can create the required Glance image within your project in OpenStack using the Horizon dashboard GUI screens or using the OpenStack CLI while logged in as an administrator. For VNFM deployments, you must also tag the Glance image using the OpenStack CLI. The tagging syntax must be as follows: 
--tag ribbon --tag SBC --tag V07.01.00R000 
where the version syntax is as shown, and the values must match the version values from the release notes for the current release. Refer to OpenStack documentation or  or the documentation provided by your OpenStack vendor for more information on creating and tagging an a Glance image. 

For VNFM deployments, it is mandatory that the name you use for the Glance image matches the name shown for the image in the VNFD file. To verify the name to use, search for the string: sw_image: within the VNFD file. The required file name follows a few lines later and is in the general format: sbc-V0<SBC full version number>

For example, the appearance of the following lines in the VNFD file indicate that the file name to use for the Glance image is sbc-V07.02.00R000.  

sw_image:
  #...
  #...
  file: ../Files/sbc-V07.02.00R000

During orchestration of your deployment, whether you use Heat templates or VNFM, the qcow2 image of the SBC must be present in the Glance repository. For VNFM deployments, the glance tags on the image must be set as described above.