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Proposed name for the project: vPE Performance testing
Proposed name for the repository: opnfv_vPE_perf_test_repo
Project Categories: Integration & Testing
Project description
Project “vPE Performance testing” will provide comprehensive testing methodology, test suites and test cases to test and the performance of the OPNFV platform under the vPE L3VPN over MPLS use case.
This project is focused on measuring the performance of the different OPNFV platform components like the compute server, hyper-visor, Open vSwitch, Linux Bridge etc., that are involved in the control and data path of the vPE L3 VPN use case. The focus of the performance measurement will be on the following aspects when the vPE is subjected to realistic traffic patterns like that of a real world PE router:
The performance of the components involved in the vPE data path under traffic created by the CE to CE data, CE-to-Internet flows.
The performance of the components involved in the vPE control path under traffic created by bfd, route programming, QOS programming)
This project will develop test suites that cover detailed vPE L3VPN performance measurement test cases, test methodologies and platform configurations which will be documented and maintained in a repository for use by other OPNFV testing projects and the community in general.
Approach
The project targets testing of the OPNFV platform in a hosted test-bed environment (i.e. using the OPNFV test labs world wide). The project will leverage the "OPNFV: Base system Functionality testing" project and will leverage the infrastructure, test tools, automation framework delivered bu this project.
The picture below outlines the main test topology used in the vPE performance testing.
Scope
vPE Performance test project will deliver a performance testing system along with a set of test traffic patterns, performance measuring metrics, test suites and test cases to test the performance of OPNFV platform when used in the vPE use case under the specific L3VPN over MPLS. The performance measurement is targeted at the following entities in the OPNFV Platform.
NOTE: These tests are performed on the VNF, however, the metrics measured under these traffic patterns are on the OPNFV platform that are specified further down below.
The following metrics are measured under the above testcases and traffic patterns. Please refer to the follwoing figure to get more clarity:
The project requires the following components:
OPNFV Lab setup with complete access to a set of Bare metal servers for Controller and Compute nodes (minimum configuration: 1x installer server, 2x controller node servers, 3x compute node servers); associated switches and routers.
OPNFV platform software bundle from the repository that includes several upstream software components.
OPNFV "Get Started!" software bundles that includes the installer
Open Source VNF Open-WRT
Open Source VNF Snort
Open Source Apache Web Server in Ubuntu 14.04
Open Source HAProxy
Tempest framework and Robot Framework
Functional Testing covered
The following link provides the detailed test suites and drills down into the test suites/test cases to cover the functional testing.
Function Test Suites
The above test suites/cases are automated via Robot/Jenkins):
Dependencies
The project is a contributor to project “Octopus”.
The project leverages "Boot Strap/Get Started"
The project relies on the following upstream projects:
OpenStack Juno release: Components: Nova, Glance, Keystone, Horizon, Neutron, Ceilometer, Heat
OpenDaylight Helium release: Components: MDSAL, OVSDB, RESTCONF, ML2 plugin/ODL Neutron drivers
Installer: TBD
Puppet (for instance configuration)
QEMU/KVM
OpenWRT (as example VNF - for routing, firewall, NAT)
Snort (as example VNF - for IDS)
Linux/Centos 7 distribution
Comitters and Contributors
Comitters
Palani Chinnakannan (pals@cisco.com)
Trevor Cooper (trevor.cooper@intel.com)
Prabu.K (Prabu.Kuppuswamy@spirent.com)
Ian Wells (iawelss@cisco.com)
Qiao Fu (fuqiao@chinamobile.com)
Chitti Nimmagadda (chitti.nimmagadda@ericsson.com)
Contributors
Palani Chinnakannan (pals@cisco.com)
Trevor Cooper (trevor.cooper@intel.com)
Frank Brockners (fbrockne@cisco.com)
Prabu.K (Prabu.Kuppuswamy@spirent.com)
Ian Wells (iawelss@cisco.com)
Qiao Fu (fuqiao@chinamobile.com)
Sajeev Manikkoth (sajeevmanikkoth@gmail.com)
Chitti Nimmagadda (chitti.nimmagadda@ericsson.com)
Planned deliverables
Project deliverable:
The project delivers the following components:
Documentation of Test Suites and test cases that cover the OPNFV platform functionality testing including pass/fail criteria.
Test software and scripts for testing OPNFV Platform functionality that is essentially broken down into two main suites as follows:
Automated Test Framework based on Tempest/Robot/Jenkins, with necessary scripts and tools to automatically test and verify OPNFV functionality
Proposed Release Schedule