Yardstick Release Note

OPNFV Colorado Release Note for Yardstick

Abstract

This document describes the release note of Yardstick project.

License

OPNFV Colorado release note for Yardstick Docs are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You should have received a copy of the license along with this. If not, see <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>.

The Yardstick framework, the Yardstick test cases and the ApexLake experimental framework are opensource software, licensed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Version History

Date Version Comment
Aug 22nd, 2016 1.0 Yardstick for Colorado release

Important Notes

The software delivered in the OPNFV Yardstick Project, comprising the Yardstick framework, the Yardstick test cases and the experimental framework Apex Lake is a realization of the methodology in ETSI-ISG NFV-TST001.

The Yardstick framework is installer, infrastructure and application independent.

Summary

This Colorado release provides Yardstick as a framework for NFVI testing and OPNFV feature testing, automated in the OPNFV CI pipeline, including:

  • Documentation generated with Sphinx
    • User Guide
    • Code Documentation
    • Release notes (this document)
    • Results
  • Automated Yardstick test suite (daily, weekly)
    • Jenkins Jobs for OPNFV community labs
  • Automated Yardstick test results visualization
    • Dashboard using Grafana (user:opnfv/password: opnfv), influxDB is used as backend
  • Yardstick framework source code
  • Yardstick test cases yaml files
  • Yardstick pliug-in configration yaml files, plug-in install/remove scripts

For Colorado release, the Yardstick framework is used for the following testing:

  • OPNFV platform testing - generic test cases to measure the categories:
    • Compute
    • Network
    • Storage
  • Test cases for the following OPNFV Projects:
    • High Availability
    • IPv6
    • KVM
    • Parser
    • StorPerf
    • VSperf
    • virtual Traffic Classifier

The Yardstick framework is developed in the OPNFV community, by the Yardstick team. The virtual Traffic Classifier is a part of the Yardstick Project.

Note

The test case description template used for the Yardstick test cases is based on the document ETSI-ISG NFV-TST001; the results report template used for the Yardstick results is based on the IEEE Std 829-2008.

Release Data

Project Yardstick
Repo/tag yardstick/colorado.1.0
Yardstick Docker image tag colorado.1.0
Release designation Colorado base release
Release date September 22 2016
Purpose of the delivery Colorado base release

Deliverables

Software Deliverables

Yardstick framework source code <colorado.1.0>

Project Yardstick
Repo/tag yardstick/colorado.1.0
Yardstick Docker image tag colorado.1.0
Release designation colorado
Release date September 22th, 2016
Purpose of the delivery OPNFV Colorado release

Contexts

Context Description
Heat Models orchestration using OpenStack Heat
Node Models Baremetal, Controller, Compute

Runners

Runner Description
Arithmetic Steps every run arithmetically according to specified input value
Duration Runs for a specified period of time
Iteration Runs for a specified number of iterations
Sequence Selects input value to a scenario from an input file and runs all entries sequentially

Scenarios

Category Delivered
Availability

Attacker:

  • baremetal, process

HA tools:

  • check host, openstack, process, service
  • kill process
  • start/stop service

Monitor:

  • command, process
Compute
  • cpuload
  • cyclictest
  • lmbench
  • lmbench_cache
  • perf
  • unixbench
  • ramspeed
  • cachestat
  • memeoryload
  • computecapacity
Networking
  • iperf3
  • netperf
  • netperf_node
  • ping
  • ping6
  • pktgen
  • sfc
  • sfc with tacker
  • vtc instantion validation
  • vtc instantion validation with noisy neighbors
  • vtc throughput
  • vtc throughput in the presence of noisy neighbors
  • networkcapacity
  • netutilization
Parser Tosca2Heat
Storage

fio

storagecapacity
StorPerf storperf

API to Other Frameworks

Framework Description
ApexLake Experimental framework that enables the user to validate NFVI from the perspective of a VNF. A virtual Traffic Classifier is utilized as VNF. Enables experiments with SR-IOV on Compute Node.

Test Results Output

Dispatcher Description
file Log to a file.
http Post data to html.
influxdb Post data to influxDB.

Delivered Test cases

  • Generic NFVI test cases
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCOO1 - NW Performance
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCOO2 - NW Latency
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCOO4 - Cache Utilization
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCOO5 - Storage Performance
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCOO8 - Packet Loss Extended Test
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCOO9 - Packet Loss
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO10 - Memory Latency
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO11 - Packet Delay Variation Between VMs
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO12 - Memory Bandwidth
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO14 - Processing Speed
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO24 - CPU Load
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO37 - Latency, CPU Load, Throughput, Packet Loss
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO38 - Latency, CPU Load, Throughput, Packet Loss Extended Test
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO42 - Network Performance
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO43 - Network Latency Between NFVI Nodes
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO44 - Memory Utilization
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO55 - Compute Capacity
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO61 - Network Utilization
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO63 - Storage Capacity
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO69 - Memory Bandwidth
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO70 - Latency, Memory Utilization, Throughput, Packet Loss
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO71 - Latency, Cache Utilization, Throughput, Packet Loss
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO72 - Latency, Network Utilization, Throughput, Packet Loss
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC073 - Network Latency and Throughput Between Nodes
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO75 - Network Capacity and Scale
  • Test Cases for OPNFV HA Project:
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO19 - HA: Control node Openstack service down
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC025 - HA: OpenStacK Controller Node abnormally down
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO45 - HA: Control node Openstack service down - neutron server
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC046 - HA: Control node Openstack service down - keystone
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO47 - HA: Control node Openstack service down - glance api
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC048 - HA: Control node Openstack service down - cinder api
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO49 - HA: Control node Openstack service down - swift proxy
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC050 - HA: OpenStack Controller Node Network High Availability
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO51 - HA: OpenStack Controller Node CPU Overload High Availability
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC052 - HA: OpenStack Controller Node Disk I/O Block High Availability
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO53 - HA: OpenStack Controller Load Balance Service High Availability
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC054 - HA: OpenStack Virtual IP High Availability
  • Test Case for OPNFV IPv6 Project:
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO27 - IPv6 connectivity
  • Test Case for OPNFV KVM Project:
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO28 - KVM Latency measurements
  • Test Case for OPNFV Parser Project:
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO40 - Verify Parser Yang-to-Tosca
  • Test Case for OPNFV StorPerf Project:
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TCO74 - Storperf
  • Test Cases for Virtual Traffic Classifier:
    • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC006 - Virtual Traffic Classifier Data Plane Throughput

Benchmarking Test

  • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC007 - Virtual Traffic Classifier Data Plane Throughput

Benchmarking in presence of noisy neighbors Test

  • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC020 - Virtual Traffic Classifier Instantiation Test
  • OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC021 - Virtual Traffic Classifier Instantiation in

presence of noisy neighbors Test

Version Change

Module Version Changes

This is the third tracked release of Yardstick. It is based on following upstream versions:

  • OpenStack Mitaka
  • OpenDaylight Beryllium

Document Version Changes

This is the third tracked version of the Yardstick framework in OPNFV. It includes the following documentation updates:

  • Yardstick User Guide: corrected faulty links
  • Yardstick Code Documentation: no changes
  • Yardstick Release Notes for Yardstick: this document
  • Test Results report for Colorado testing with Yardstick: updated listed of

verified scenarios and limitations

Documentation updates on the second tracked version:

  • Yardstick User Guide: added software architecture chapter
  • Yardstick Code Documentation: no changes
  • Yardstick Release Notes for Yardstick: this document
  • Test Results report for Brahmaputra testing with Yardstick: added test cases

and results for virtual Traffic Classifier

Reason for Version

  • TODO *

Feature additions

  • TODO *

Corrected Faults

  • TODO *

Known Issues/Faults

  • TODO *

Note

The faults not related to Yardstick framework, addressing scenarios which were not fully verified, are listed in the OPNFV installer’s release notes.

Colorado known restrictions/issues

Installer Scenario Issue
any *-bgpvpn floating ips not supported. Some Test cases related to floating ips are excluded.
  • TODO *

Test results

Test results are available in:

Open JIRA tickets

JIRA Description