KVM4NFV Release Notes for Danube Release

Release Notes

Abstract

This document provides the release notes for Danube 1.0 release of KVM4NFV.

Contents

1 Version History

2 Important notes

3 Summary

4 Delivery Data

5 References

Version history

Date Ver. Author Comment
2016-08-22 0.1.0   Colorado 1.0 release
2017-03-27 0.1.0   Danube 1.0 release

Important notes

The KVM4NFV project is currently supported on the Fuel installer.

Summary

This Danube 1.0 release provides KVM4NFV as a framework to enhance the KVM Hypervisor for NFV and OPNFV scenario testing, automated in the OPNFV CI pipeline, including:

  • KVMFORNFV source code
  • Automation of building the Kernel and qemu for RPM and debian packages
  • Cyclictests execution to check the latency
  • “os-nosdn-kvm-ha”,“os-nosdn-kvm_nfv_ovs_dpdk-ha”,“os-nosdn-kvm_nfv_ovs_dpdk-noha”,“os-nosdn-kvm_nfv_ovs_dpdk_bar-ha”, “os-nosdn-kvm_nfv_ovs_dpdk_bar-noha” Scenarios testing for high availability/no-high avaliability configuration using Fuel installer
  • Documentation created for,
    • User Guide
    • Configuration Guide
    • Installation Procedure
    • Release notes
    • Scenarios Guide
    • Design Guide
    • Requirements Guide

The KVM4NFV framework is developed in the OPNFV community, by the KVM4NFV_ team.

Release Data

Project NFV Hypervisors-KVM
Repo/commit-ID kvmfornfv
Release designation Danube
Release date 2017-03-27
Purpose of the delivery OPNFV Danube 1.0 Releases

Version change

1 Module version changes

This is the Danube 1.0 main release. It is based on following upstream versions:

  • RT Kernel 4.4.50-rt62
  • QEMU 2.6
  • Fuel plugin based on Fuel 10.0

This is the second tracked release of KVM4NFV

2 Document version changes

This is the second version of the KVM4NFV framework in OPNFV.

Reason for version

1 Feature additions

JIRA REFERENCE SLOGAN
JIRA: NFV Hypervisors-KVMFORNFV-57
JIRA: NFV Hypervisors-KVMFORNFV-58
JIRA: NFV Hypervisors-KVMFORNFV-59
JIRA: NFV Hypervisors-KVMFORNFV-61
JIRA: NFV Hypervisors-KVMFORNFV-62
JIRA: NFV Hypervisors-KVMFORNFV-63
JIRA: NFV Hypervisors-KVMFORNFV-64
JIRA: NFV Hypervisors-KVMFORNFV-65

A brief Description of the the JIRA tickets:

JIRA REFERENCE DESCRIPTION
KVMFORNFV-57 CI/CD Integration into Yardstick
KVMFORNFV-58 Complete the integration of test plan into Yardstick and Jenkins infrastructure to include latency testing
KVMFORNFV-59 Enable capability to publish results on Yardstick Dashboard
KVMFORNFV-61 Define and integrate additional scenario - KVM+OVS+DPDK with HA and NOHA for baremetal and virtual environments
KVMFORNFV-62 Define and integrate additional scenario - KVM+OVS+DPDK+BAR with HA and NOHA for bare metal and virtual environments
KVMFORNFV-63 Setup Local fuel environment
KVMFORNFV-64 Fuel environment setup for local machine to debug Fuel related integration issues

Deliverables

1 Software deliverables

  • Danube 1.0 release of the KVM4NFV RPM and debian for kvm4nfv
  • Added the following scenarios as part of D-Release:
    • os-nosdn-kvm_nfv_ovs_dpdk-noha
    • os-nosdn-kvm_nfv_ovs_dpdk_bar-noha
    • os-nosdn-kvm_nfv_ovs_dpdk-ha
    • os-nosdn-kvm_nfv_ovs_dpdk_bar-ha
  • Configured influxdb and `Graphana dashboard`_ for publishing kvm4nfv test results
  • Cyclictest test case is successfully implemented, it has the below test types.,
    • idle-idle
    • CPUstress-idle
    • IOstress-idle
    • Memorystress-idle
  • Implemented Noisy Neighbour feature ., cyclictest under stress testing is implemented
  • Packet forwarding test case is implemented and it supports the following test types currently,
    • Packet forwarding to Host
    • Packet forwarding to Guest
    • Packet forwarding to Guest using SRIOV
  • Ftrace debugging tool is supported in D-Release. The logs collected by ftrace are stored in artifacts for future needs
  • PCM Utility is part of D-Release. The future scope may include collection of read/write data and publishing in grafana
  • Either Apex or Fuel can be used for deployment of os-nosdn-kvm-ha scenario
Scenario Name Apex Fuel
  • os-nosdn-kvm-ha
 Y Y
  • os-nosdn-kvm_nfv_ovs_dpdk-noha
   Y
  • os-nosdn-kvm_nfv_ovs_dpdk-ha
   Y
  • os-nosdn-kvm_nfv_ovs_dpdk_bar-noha
   Y
  • os-nosdn-kvm_nfv_ovs_dpdk_bar-ha
   Y
  • Future scope may include adding Apex support for all the remaining scenarios
  • The below documents are delivered for Danube KVM4NFV Release:
    • User Guide
    • Configuration Guide
    • Installation Procedure
    • Overview
    • Release notes
    • Glossary
    • Scenarios
    • Requirements Guide
    • Overview Guide

References

For more information on the KVM4NFV Danube release, please see:

https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/kvm/