The Versatile Routing Platform (VRP) is a universal operating system (OS) platform for Huawei datacom products. It is based on IP and adopts a component-based architecture. It provides rich features and functions, including application-based tailorable and extensible functions, greatly improving the running efficiency of the devices that use this OS. To efficiently manage such devices, you must be familiar with VRP and VRP-based configuration. This note describes the basic concepts, common commands, and command line interface (CLI) of VRP.