Scalability Tests adding More VMs in succession and building a performance profile as we add more VMs.

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OverlayNetworking Tests: VXLAN performance testing, encap, decap, encap and decap

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241

Matchaction performance testing? The cost of the different actions supported by a vSwitch

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242

VM2VM Tests (PHY-VNF-vSwitch-VNF-PHY), with scaling number of VMs in path (combines two tests in the list)

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243

Classifying L2, L3 and L4 traffic Profile Tests, Flows, new flows/sec, L2/L3/L4 etc. entries in"fast" path tables, ...

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Stream/bulk Data transfer "unidirectional stream" performance request& response/transaction rate tests

Performance testing with Mirroring enabled on the switch

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TCP Max connections per second, Max # of active sessions, Max transactions per second

IPv6 Support and Testing

Best of N and Worst of N Tests

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Measuring how many instances of a vSwitch would be required to support 1 million simulataneous flows

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Resilience tests

Performance characterization runs vs.number of "x". Tests with Restricted Resources (Host with X Cores, vSwitch with Y Cores?

Flows, new flows/sec, L2/L3/L4 etc. entries in"fast" path tables, ...

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Tests to evaluate vSwitch contribution to 3GPP performance objectives (3GPP TS 23.203 Policy and Charging Control Architecture)

Programming rate of Forwarding_table /flow_table

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SOAK tests (using RFC 2889 Max Forwarding Rate, not RFC 2544, to collect intermediate results)

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Tests suggested by OVS developers (there were a few)

Box-full tests, where all CPU cores are doing useful work: vNet4 vSwitch with Nx VNFs, vNet6 vSwitch with Nx VNF chained topologies

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LatencyAndLatencyVariation with dedicated latency measurement streams

Tests with Restricted Resources (Host with X Cores, vSwitch with Y Cores, ? overlap with 14, … vs number of "X")

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Spanning Tree/Rapid Spanning Tree integration testing

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vNet vComp2 for VM2VM virt interface testing