TECHNOLOGIES FOR HOT-SWAPPING A LEGACY APPLIANCE WITH A NETWORK FUNCTIONS VIRTUALIZATION APPLIANCE

摘要

Technologies for hot-swapping a legacy network appliance with a network functions virtualization (NFV) appliance include a migration management compute device configured to establish a secure connection with the legacy network appliance and retrieve configuration information and operational parameters of the legacy network appliance via the established secure connection. The migration management compute device is further configured to deploy a VNF instance on the NFV appliance based on the configuration information and operational parameters, and perform a hot-swap operation to re-route network traffic from the legacy network appliance to the NFV appliance. Other embodiments are described herein.