Management and orchestration includes three components [16]:
NFV Orchestrator - is responsible for orchestration (management) NFVI source to multiple VIM (Virtualized Infrastructure Manager), perform functions orchestration of resources, lifecycle management of network services (e.g. Management policies instances, scaling, performance measurement, event correlation), filling function orchestration for network services, global resource management, validation and approval of applications NFVI sources.
VNF Manager - responsible for managing the lifecycle of instances of the VNF (he may be assigned to the management of one VNF instance, and can also manage multiple instances of the same or another type), overall coordination and adaptation of configurations and incident reporting between NFVI and E/NMS
Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) - is responsible for the control and management NFVI calculation, memory and network resources within the infrastructure sub-domains of a single operator, the collection and transmission performance measurements and events.