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The forwarding plane (also known as the data plane) of a software-defined networking (SDN) controller is responsible for forwarding data packets based on the instructions given by the control plane23. It handles all activities involving data packets sent by the end-user, including forwarding of packets2. References from Juniper site: GeeksforGeeks, SDxCentral

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The service that stores the virtual machine (VM) image in OpenStack is Glance91011. Glance is the image service in OpenStack that allows you to discover, register, retrieve, and store virtual machine images

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OpenShift includes a preconfigured, preinstalled, and self-updating monitoring stack that provides monitoring for core platform components4. You also have the option to enable monitoring for user-defined projects4. This means OpenShift has its own monitoring framework (B) and is able to configure customized alerts (D).
References from Juniper site: OpenShift Container Platform

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KubeVirt is a Kubernetes add-on that allows you to run and manage legacy virtual machine workloads alongside container workloads within a Kubernetes deployment. According to the KubeVirt website, KubeVirt is "a virtual machine management add-on for Kubernetes" that "aims to provide a common ground for virtualization solutions on top of Kubernetes". Other Kubernetes add-ons that are mentioned in the question are Canal, which is a network policy provider that combines Flannel and Calico; ADOT, which is a distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector that supports tracing and metrics collection for AWS services; and Romana, which is a network and security automation solution that supports multiple network topologies and policies.

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Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept that uses IT virtualization technologies to virtualize entire classes of network node functions into building blocks that may connect or chain together to create communication services3. The NFV framework explains how Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) fit into the whole solution4. The NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) is a component of NFV that consists of the infrastructure components -compute, storage, networking-on a platform to support software4. References from Juniper site: Red Hat, VMware, Wikipedia