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

Experimenting with Single System:

In this scenario, both the DUT (vswitch with/without VNFs) and the Traffic-Generator run on same System.

1. vsperf distribution: Downloaded from here
2. OS: Linux (ex: centos)
3. Hypervisor: KVM/Qemu
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)

Experimenting with Two Systems

In this scenario, DUT runs on first system and the Traffic-generator runs on a different system. (Note: The second system could be a hardware traffic-generator - Spirent, Ixia, Xena, etc.)

System-1:

1. vsperf distribution: Downloaded from here
2. OS: Linux (ex: centos)
3. Hypervisor: KVM/Qemu
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)

System-2:

There are multiple options here - user can choose any one of the following

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.