NFVbench Release Notes

OPNFV Euphrates Release

This is the introductory release for NFVbench. In this release, NFVbench provides the following features/capabilities:

• standalone installation with a single Docker container integrating the open source TRex traffic generator

• can measure data plane performance for any NFVi full stack

• can setup automatically service chains with the following packet paths:

  • PVP (physical-VM-physical)
  • PVVP (physical-VM-VM-physical) intra-node and inter-node

• can setup multiple service chains

  • N * PVP
  • N * PVVP

• supports any external service chain (pre-set externally) that can do basic IPv4 routing

• can measure

  • drop rate and latency for any given fixed rate
  • NDR (No Drop Rate) and PDR (Partial Drop Rate) with configurable drop rates

• traffic specification

  • any fixed frame size or IMIX
  • uni or bidirectional traffic
  • any number of flows
  • vlan tagging can be enabled or disabled

• user interface:

  • CLI
  • REST+socketIO

• fully configurable runs with yaml-JSON configuration

• detailed results in JSON format

• summary tabular results

• can send logs and results to one or more fluentd aggregators (per configuration)