HARDWARE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT METHOD, HARDWARE RESOURCE LOCATION QUERY METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS

摘要

The present invention provides a method for managing a hardware resource, a method for querying a location of a hardware resource, and a related apparatus, where the method for managing a hardware resource includes: receiving, by a 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 virtualized network function component VNFC, and the hardware resource allocation request message includes location information of the hardware resource that the virtual machine requests to allocate; and allocating, by the VIM, the hardware resource at a corresponding location to the virtual machine according to the location information of the hardware resource. Embodiments of the present invention can meet a requirement of a sensitive service.