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diff --git a/docs/development/overview/overview.rst b/docs/development/overview/overview.rst index 2b86da3..792d50f 100644 --- a/docs/development/overview/overview.rst +++ b/docs/development/overview/overview.rst @@ -9,5 +9,18 @@ Introduction ---------------- -Describing the components and behaviours in a manner that helps people understand the platform and how to work with it +NFVbench is a python application that is designed to run in a compact and portable format inside a container and on production pods. +As such it only uses open sourec software with minimal hardware requirements (just a NIC card that is DPDK compatible). +Traffic generation is handled by TRex on 2 physical ports (2x10G or higher) forming traffic loops up to VNF level and following +a path that is common to all NFV applications: external source to top of rack switch(es) to conpute node(s) to vswitch (if applicable) +to VNF(s) and back. +Configuration of benchmarks is through a hierarchy of yaml configuraton files and command line arguments. + +Results are available in different formats: +- text output with tabular results +- json result in file or in REST reply (most detailed) + +Logging is available in a log file. + +Benchmark results and logs can be optionally sent to one or more remote fluentd aggeregators using json format. |