====== Project: Bottlenecks - System Limitation Testing ======

  * Project Name: Bottlenecks \\
  * Project Repository: bottlenecks \\
  * Project Category: Integration & Testing \\
  * Project IRC: #opnfv-bottlenecks \\
  * Project Meetings: [[meetings/bottlenecks|Working meeting page]]

^  {{:information.png?60|}}  ^ **Quick links** \\ [[https://jira.opnfv.org/projects/BOTTLENECK/issues|Bottlenecks Jira tasks]] \\ [[bottlenecks#documentation|Bottlenecks documentation]] ^ 

===== Description =====

This project aims to find system bottlenecks by testing and verifying OPNFV infrastructure in a staging environment before committing it to a production environment. Instead of debugging a deployment in production environment, an automatic method for executing benchmarks which plans to validate the deployment during staging is adopted. This project will provide a framework to find the bottlenecks of OPNFV infrastructure. The framework has four components: Workload generator and VNFs (WV), Monitor and Analysis (MA), Deployment and Configuration (DC), Automated Staging (AS). The architecture is as shown [[https://wiki.opnfv.org/_media/project_proposals/bottlenecksproposal.png?cache=|here]], and the functions of each components are as below. 

  *Workload generator and VNFs: workload generator generates workloads which go through VNFs 
  *Monitor and Analysis: monitor VNFs status and infrastructure status to output analyzed results 
  *Deployment and Configuration: deploy and configure infrastructure and WV
  *Automated Staging: implement automated staging

  * **Meetings:** 
     * **Weekly work meeting:** Thursdays 1:00-2:00 UTC
       * Gotomeeting Access: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/882532573
       * IRC channel: #opnfv-bottlenecks @ Freenode ([[http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=opnfv-bottlenecks|Web Chat]]) 
       * Check [[meetings/bottlenecks | Agenda]] and  [[http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/opnfv-bottlenecks/|Minutes of Meetings]]
     * **Weekly Test&Perf meeting:** Thursdays 15:00-16:00 UTC
       * Gotomeeting Access: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/305553637
       * IRC channel: #opnfv-meeting @ Freenode ([[http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=opnfv-meeting|Web Chat]]) 
       * See [[meetings/test | More meeting details]]
     * **Bi-Weekly Test&Perf meeting (Asia&Europe):** Thursdays 8:30-9:30 UTC
       * Gotomeeting Access: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/644444853
       * IRC channel: #opnfv-meeting @ Freenode ([[http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=opnfv-meeting|Web Chat]]) 
       * See [[meetings/test | More meeting details]]

  * **Etherpads:**
     * Bottlenecks release planning - [[https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/bottlenecks]]
     * Bottlenecks and Dovetail - [[https://etherpad.opnfv.org/p/test_bottleneck_dovetail]]

  * **Gerrit:** [[https://gerrit.opnfv.org/gerrit/#/q/bottlenecks]] 

  * **Git:** [[https://git.opnfv.org/bottlenecks]]

  * **Jira:** [[https://jira.opnfv.org/projects/BOTTLENECK]]

  * **Project proposal:** [[project_proposals:bottlenecks|Bottlenecks Project Proposal]]

===== Scope =====

The scope of Bottlenecks project includes:

   * **Forming a staging test framework**
     - Release candidates A,B... provides a foundation to be tested of Infrastructure layer
     - A workload generator generates workloads which go through VNFs. This workload generator will be scalable and may cover multiply workload models for different scenarios
     - Monitor and analysis units will monitor the infrastructure and VNFs status and present results after analysis

   * **Automatically generating the full set of experimental specification**
     - Document and codes to describe how to generate experimental specification according to different service level agreement (SLA)
     - Document to describe how to find some typical bottlenecks according to specific monitoring

   * **Measuring the performance of standard benchmarks over a wide range of hardware and software configurations**
     - Different hardware resource adopted to produce test data used for bottleneck analysis
     - Different parameters adopted in software configuration files to produce test data used for bottleneck analysis

   * **Automated iterative staging process for finding bottlenecks**
     - Achieve full automation in system deployment, evaluation, and evolution, by creating code generation tools to link the different steps of deployment, evaluation, reconfiguration, and redesign in full lifecycle. 
     - Reassignment and reconfiguration of hardware resources 
     - Reassignment and reconfiguration of software resource 

===== Deliverable & Reference =====

==== Presentation Slides ====
  * {{:undefined:bottlenecks.pdf|Bottlenecks Introduction}} at Project proposal 
  * concepts, classification of bottlenecks: https://jira.opnfv.org/projects/BOTTLENECK/issues/BOTTLENECK-34?filter=allopenissues

==== project documents ====

  * basic information and how to use rubbos/vstf in bottlenecks project: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/bottlenecks/brahmaputra/bottlenecks_brahmaputra_docs/index.html

==== Meeting materials ====

{{:bottlenecks_project_for_test_meeting_20150820.pptx|}}


documents for bottlenecks: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/bottlenecks/docs/bottlenecks_brahmaputra_docs/index.html

==== Additional links ====

  * [[https://wiki.opnfv.org/releases/brahmaputra|Brahmaputra release page]]
  * [[https://wiki.opnfv.org/testing|OPNFV Main Testing Page]]
  * [[https://wiki.opnfv.org/developer/contribution_guidelines|OPNFV Coding Guidelines]]
  * [[https://ask.opnfv.org/questions/|Ask OPNFV]]
  * [[https://wiki.opnfv.org/releases/brahmaputra/release_plan|Brahmaputra release plan]]

===== Key Project Facts =====
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===== Contributors =====

Lynch Michael A(Intel): michael.a.lynch@intel.com\\
Qi Liang: liangqi1@huawei.com\\
Mingjiang Li: limingjiang@huawei.com\\
Lingli Deng: denglingli@chinamobile.com\\
Qunwei Yang: qwyang0126@gmail.com\\
Yaoguang Wang: sunshine.wang@huawei.com\\