Introduction

This project aims to create a TestVNF-VM and TestVNFManager-container, which includes different opensources and provides ability to perform multi-dimensional performance testing and benchmarking.

The TestVNFManager can be seen as an EMS, which can interact with a GenericVNFM.

What are all the tools that will be considered in TestVNF?

Collectd for metrics collection
Flexible Packet Processing Framework (Ex: DPPD-PROX)
stress-ng
fio
wrk2
....

TestVNF VM

We propose to use Centos 7 (https://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/) .

Only effort required here is to configure the VM with ssh access and credentials.

We have two options for this testvnf:

Pre-Built with all packages and configurations.
Post-Deploy - installed and configured.

Why TestVNFManager

If we chose the option-2 for TestVNF creation, mainly because of the 'flexibility' it provides - in supporting different toolset and usecases, the installation and configuration on a deployed-VM (ex: centos cloud-vm) will be done by the TestVNFManager.

TestVNFManager

We propose to use container format for the testvnfmanager application. This (the application) will be python, and it can use either ssh (paramiko library) or Ansible to manage (Install, Configure, Run and Collect) TestVNF.

Reuse of Existing OPNFV-Projects

This project involves lot of "System-Integration" rather than from-the-scratch development. We propose to reuse efforts from following OPNFV projects:

VSperf
Storperf (Active?)
SampleVNF
QTip - (Not active)

Architecture

Usage

Project Activities

Understanding of the tools
Configure Centos-VM with user/pwd
Deploy CentosVM (referred as TestVNF, from now on) on Pod15/Pod10
Version-1 of TestVNFManager: Install and configure collectd and stress-ng on TestVM
Version-2 of TestVNFManager: Install and configure FIO (Reuse from StorPerf) on TestVM
Version-3 of TestVNFManager: Install and configure DPPD-PROX to run as TGen on TestVM
Release-1 of TestVNFManager

Anuket

Multidimensional TestVNF