Spirent Virtual Cloud Test Lab

A community provided metal resource hosted at Nephoscale, leveraged for SDN/NFV public testing and OpenDaylight, OpenStack, OPNFV projects.

Spirent VCT Lab is currently working on 3 different OpenStack environments each one of them deployed on different hardware configuration:


There are a number of different networks referenced in the VPTC Design Blueprint.

These can be added or removed as specified by the test methodology. There are 8 x 10 gige SFP+ ports available on a typical C100MP used for Avalanche Layer 4-7 testing. The N4U offers 2 x 40 gige QSFP+ ports with the MX-2 Spirent Test Center Layer 2-3 testing. There are 2 x Cumulus switches with 32 ports of 40 gige QSFP+ ports for a total capacity of 256 ports of 10 gige. We use QSFP+ to SFP+ break out cables to convert a single 40 gige port into 4 x 10 gige ports. Together these offer a flexible solution to allow up to 8 simultaneous tests to take place with physical traffic generators at the same time. Assuming a 10 to 1 oversubscription ratio we could handle 80 community users with the current environment. For example:

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Revision: a6b01500bfef0adb36f3a1ddb9cd2b486b780d98

Build date: Fri Oct 30 19:01:00 UTC 2015