Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 
2     References              
 
3     Definitions
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere      
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation          
 
4     Abbreviations and acronyms           
 
5     Conventions            
 
6     Overview of cloud infrastructure   
 
7     Requirements for compute resources        
        7.1     Physical machine requirements           
        7.2     Virtual machine requirements             
        7.3     Software resources provisioning requirements           
        7.4     Time-sensitive services requirements              
 
8     Requirements for network resources         
        8.1     General requirements for network resources              
        8.2     Access and core transport network   
        8.3     Intra-datacentre network      
        8.4     Inter-datacentre network      
 
9     Requirements for storage resources           
        9.1     Storage space              
        9.2     Storage interface        
        9.3     Storage management              
        9.4     Storage availability     
        9.5     Data de-duplication   
10     Requirements for resource abstraction and control            
11     Support of emergency telecommunications           
12     Security considerations     
Appendix I – Overview and reference model for storage in a cloud environment    
        I.1                  Reference model for cloud storage       
Appendix II – Considerations on resource monitoring    
       II.1     Health monitoring       
       II.2     Performance monitoring         
       II.3     Capacity monitoring   
       II.4     Security and compliance monitoring  
       II.5     Monitoring and metering for charging and billing         
       II.6     Monitoring in support of cloud services           
Appendix III – Power management in cloud infrastructure    
Appendix IV – Considerations on supporting of ETS    
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