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.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
.. (c) OPNFV, Intel Corporation, AT&T and others.
======================
Installing vswitchperf
======================
Supported Operating Systems
---------------------------
* CentOS 7
* Fedora 20
* Fedora 21
* Fedora 22
* RedHat 7.2
* Ubuntu 14.04
Supported vSwitches
-------------------
The vSwitch must support Open Flow 1.3 or greater.
* OVS (built from source).
* OVS with DPDK (built from source).
Supported Hypervisors
---------------------
* Qemu version 2.3.
Available VNFs
--------------
A simple VNF that forwards traffic through a VM, using:
* DPDK testpmd
* Linux Brigde
* custom l2fwd module
The official VM image is called vloop-vnf and it is available for free
download at OPNFV website.
vloop-vnf changelog:
====================
* `vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160303`_
* snmpd service is disabled by default to avoid error messages during VM boot
* security updates applied
* `vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20151216`_
* version with development tools required for build of DPDK and l2fwd
Other Requirements
------------------
The test suite requires Python 3.3 and relies on a number of other
packages. These need to be installed for the test suite to function.
Installation of required packages, preparation of Python 3 virtual
environment and compilation of OVS, DPDK and QEMU is performed by
script **systems/build_base_machine.sh**. It should be executed under
user account, which will be used for vsperf execution.
**Please Note**: Password-less sudo access must be configured for given
user account before script is executed.
Execution of installation script:
.. code:: bash
$ cd systems
$ ./build_base_machine.sh
**Please Note**: you don't need to go into any of the systems subdirectories,
simply run the top level **build_base_machine.sh**, your OS will be detected
automatically.
Script **build_base_machine.sh** will install all the vsperf dependencies
in terms of system packages, Python 3.x and required Python modules.
In case of CentOS 7 it will install Python 3.3 from an additional repository
provided by Software Collections (`a link`_). In case of RedHat 7 it will
install Python 3.4 as an alternate installation in /usr/local/bin. Installation
script will also use `virtualenv`_ to create a vsperf virtual environment,
which is isolated from the default Python environment. This environment will
reside in a directory called **vsperfenv** in $HOME.
You will need to activate the virtual environment every time you start a
new shell session. Its activation is specific to your OS:
CentOS 7
========
.. code:: bash
$ scl enable python33 bash
$ cd $HOME/vsperfenv
$ source bin/activate
Fedora, RedHat and Ubuntu
=========================
.. code:: bash
$ cd $HOME/vsperfenv
$ source bin/activate
Working Behind a Proxy
======================
If you're behind a proxy, you'll likely want to configure this before
running any of the above. For example:
.. code:: bash
export http_proxy=proxy.mycompany.com:123
export https_proxy=proxy.mycompany.com:123
.. _a link: http://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python33/
.. _virtualenv: https://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
.. _vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160303: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/vswitchperf/vnf/vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160303.qcow2
.. _vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20151216: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/vswitchperf/vnf/vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20151216.qcow2
Hugepage Configuration
----------------------
Systems running vsperf with either dpdk and/or tests with guests must configure
hugepage amounts to support running these configurations. It is recommended
to configure 1GB hugepages as the pagesize.
The amount of hugepages needed depends on your configuration files in vsperf.
Each guest image requires 4096 by default according to the default settings in
the ``04_vnf.conf`` file.
.. code:: bash
GUEST_MEMORY = ['4096', '4096']
The dpdk startup parameters also require an amount of hugepages depending on
your configuration in the ``02_vswitch.conf`` file.
.. code:: bash
VSWITCHD_DPDK_ARGS = ['-c', '0x4', '-n', '4', '--socket-mem 1024,1024']
With the --socket-mem argument set to use 1 hugepage on the specified sockets as
seen above, the configuration will need 9 hugepages total to run all tests
within vsperf if the pagesize is set correctly to 1GB.
Depending on your OS selection configuration of hugepages may vary. Please refer
to your OS documentation to set hugepages correctly. It is recommended to set
the required amount of hugepages to be allocated by default on reboots.
Information on hugepage requirements for dpdk can be found at
http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.html
You can review your hugepage amounts by executing the following command
.. code:: bash
cat /proc/meminfo | grep Huge
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