Target Audience: Those who are new to VSPERF and would like to try it out locally.

Note:

(a) Instructions to install and configure (including tuning) VSPERF can be found here

(b) Instructions to run tests can be found here

Experimenting with Single System:

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1. vsperf distribution: Downloaded from here
2. OS: Linux (ex: centos, fedora, suse, ubuntu, RHEL)
3. Hypervisor: KVM/QemuQemu (> 2.3)
4. RAM:  8-16GB
5. TGen-VM: TRex-VM (VSPERF includes this image as part of its artifacts - https://artifacts.opnfv.org/vswitchperf/vnf/vloop-vnf-ubuntu-16.04_trex_20180209.qcow2)
6. VNF: vloop-VNF (VSPERF includes this image as part of its artifacts - http://artifacts.opnfv.org/vswitchperf/vnf/vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160823.qcow2)

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1. vsperf distribution: Downloaded from here
2. OS: Linux (ex: centos, fedora, suse, ubuntu, RHEL)
3. Hypervisor: KVM/QemuQemu (> 2.3)
4. RAM:  8-16GB
5. NICs: 2 for data-traffic
6. VNF: vloop-VNF (VSPERF includes this image as part of its artifacts - http://artifacts.opnfv.org/vswitchperf/vnf/vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160823.qcow2)

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1. Hardware Traffic Generator: Ixia, Spirent, Xena, Etc.
2. T-Rex: Instructions to install can be found here
3. Moongen: Instructions to install can be found here
4. NICs: 2 for data-traffic.

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