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authorDeepak S <deepak.s@linux.intel.com>2017-10-04 09:36:42 +0000
committerGerrit Code Review <gerrit@opnfv.org>2017-10-04 09:36:42 +0000
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+++ b/docs/testing/user/userguide/04-installation.rst
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Abstract
--------
This project provides a placeholder for various sample VNF
-(Virtual Network Function (:term `VNF`)) development which includes example
+(Virtual Network Function (:term:`VNF`)) development which includes example
reference architecture and optimization methods related to VNF/Network service
for high performance VNFs.
The sample VNFs are Open Source approximations* of Telco grade VNF’s using
@@ -20,21 +20,21 @@ of Sample† Traffic Flows.
::
* Not a commercial product. Encourage the community to contribute and close the feature gaps.
- † No Vendor/Proprietary Workloads
+ † No Vendor/Proprietary Workloads
SampleVNF supports installation directly in Ubuntu. The installation procedure
are detailed in the sections below.
The steps needed to run SampleVNF are:
1) Install and Build SampleVNF.
- 2) deploy the VNF on the target and modify the config based on the Network under test
+ 2) Deploy the VNF on the target and modify the config based on the Network under test
3) Run the traffic generator to generate the traffic.
Prerequisites
-------------
-Supported Test setup:
---------------------
+Supported Test setup
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The device under test (DUT) consists of a system following;
* A single or dual processor and PCH chip, except for System on Chip (SoC) cases
* DRAM memory size and frequency (normally single DIMM per channel)
@@ -45,18 +45,19 @@ Connected to the DUT is an IXIA* or Software Traffic generator like pktgen or TR
simulation platform to generate packet traffic to the DUT ports and
determine the throughput/latency at the tester side.
-Below are the supported/tested (:term `VNF`) deployment type.
+Below are the supported/tested (:term:`VNF`) deployment type.
.. image:: images/deploy_type.png
:width: 800px
:alt: SampleVNF supported topology
Hardware & Software Ingredients
--------------------------------
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SUT requirements:
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
::
+
+-----------+------------------+
| Item | Description |
+-----------+------------------+
@@ -72,8 +73,9 @@ SUT requirements:
+-----------+------------------+
Boot and BIOS settings:
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
::
+
+------------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Boot settings | default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=16 |
| | hugepagesz=2M hugepages=2048 isolcpus=1-11,22-33 |
@@ -97,49 +99,58 @@ The ethernet cables should be connected between traffic generator and the VNF se
SRIOV or OVS) setup based on the test profile.
The connectivity could be
-1) Single port pair : One pair ports used for traffic
- ::
+
+1) Single port pair : One pair ports used for traffic
+
+::
+
e.g. Single port pair link0 and link1 of VNF are used
TG:port 0 <------> VNF:Port 0
TG:port 1 <------> VNF:Port 1
2) Multi port pair : More than one pair of traffic
- ::
+
+::
+
e.g. Two port pair link 0, link1, link2 and link3 of VNF are used
TG:port 0 <------> VNF:Port 0
TG:port 1 <------> VNF:Port 1
- TG:port 2 <------> VNF:Port 2
+ TG:port 2 <------> VNF:Port 2
TG:port 3 <------> VNF:Port 3
For correalted traffic, use below configuration
TG_1:port 0 <------> VNF:Port 0
VNF:Port 1 <------> TG_2:port 0 (UDP Replay)
(TG_2(UDP_Replay) reflects all the traffic on the given port)
- * Bare-Metal
- Refer: http://fast.dpdk.org/doc/pdf-guides/ to setup the DUT for VNF to run
- * Standalone Virtualization - PHY-VM-PHY
+* Bare-Metal
+ Refer: http://fast.dpdk.org/doc/pdf-guides/ to setup the DUT for VNF to run
+
+* Standalone Virtualization - PHY-VM-PHY
* SRIOV
Refer below link to setup sriov
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/using-sr-iov-to-share-an-ethernet-port-among-multiple-vms
- * OVS_DPDK
+ * OVS_DPDK
Refer below link to setup ovs-dpdk
http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/general/
http://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/intro/install/dpdk/
* Openstack
Use any OPNFV installer to deploy the openstack.
-
+
Build VNFs on the DUT:
----------------------
+
1) Clone sampleVNF project repository - git clone https://git.opnfv.org/samplevnf
- Auto Build - Using script to build VNFs
- ^^^^^^^^^^
- * Interactive options:
+Auto Build - Using script to build VNFs
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+ * Interactive options:
+
::
+
./tools/vnf_build.sh -i
Follow the steps in the screen from option [1] –> [9] and
select option [8] to build the vnfs.
@@ -169,33 +180,37 @@ Build VNFs on the DUT:
[9] Exit Script
* non-Interactive options:
+
::
+
./tools/vnf_build.sh -s -d=<dpdk version eg 17.02>
- Manual Build
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Manual Build
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
::
- 1.Download DPDK supported version from dpdk.org
+
+ 1. Download DPDK supported version from dpdk.org
http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/snapshot/dpdk-$DPDK_RTE_VER.zip
unzip dpdk-$DPDK_RTE_VER.zip and apply dpdk patches only in case of 16.04 (Not required for other DPDK versions)
cd dpdk
make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc O=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
cd x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
make -j
- 2.Setup huge pages
+ 2. Setup huge pages
For 1G/2M hugepage sizes, for example 1G pages, the size must be specified
explicitly and can also be optionally set as the default hugepage size
for the system. For example, to reserve 8G of hugepage memory in the form
of eight 1G pages, the following options should be passed to the
kernel: * default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=8 hugepagesz=2M hugepages=2048
- 3.Add this to Go to /etc/default/grub configuration file.
+ 3. Add this to Go to /etc/default/grub configuration file.
Append “default_hugepagesz=1G hugepagesz=1G hugepages=8 hugepagesz=2M hugepages=2048”to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX entry.
- 4.Setup Environment Variable
+ 4. Setup Environment Variable
export RTE_SDK=<samplevnf>/dpdk
export RTE_TARGET=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc
export VNF_CORE=<samplevnf>
or using ./tools/setenv.sh
- 5.Build vACL VNFs
+ 5. Build vACL VNFs
cd <samplevnf>/VNFs/vACL
make clean
make
@@ -205,7 +220,9 @@ Build VNFs on the DUT:
2) Standalone virtualization/Openstack:
Build VM image from script in yardstick
+
::
+
1) git clone https://git.opnfv.org/yardstick
2) cd yardstick and run
./tools/yardstick-img-modify tools/ubuntu-server-cloudimg-samplevnf-modify.sh