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(c) OPNFV, 2016-2017 Intel Corporation. - -===================================== -Network Services Benchmarking (NSB) -===================================== - -Abstract -======== - -.. _Yardstick: https://wiki.opnfv.org/yardstick - -This chapter provides an overview of the NSB, a contribution to OPNFV -Yardstick_ from Intel. - -Overview -======== - -GOAL: Extend Yardstick to perform real world VNFs and NFVi Characterization and -benchmarking with repeatable and deterministic methods. - -The Network Service Benchmarking (NSB) extends the yardstick framework to do -VNF characterization and benchmarking in three different execution -environments - bare metal i.e. native Linux environment, standalone virtual -environment and managed virtualized environment (e.g. Open stack etc.). -It also brings in the capability to interact with external traffic generators -both hardware & software based for triggering and validating the traffic -according to user defined profiles. - -NSB extension includes: - - - Generic data models of Network Services, based on ETSI spec (ETSI GS NFV-TST 001) - .. _ETSI GS NFV-TST 001: http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/NFV-TST/001_099/001/01.01.01_60/gs_nfv-tst001v010101p.pdf - - - New Standalone context for VNF testing like SRIOV, OVS, OVS-DPDK etc - - - Generic VNF configuration models and metrics implemented with Python - classes - - - Traffic generator features and traffic profiles - - - L1-L3 state-less traffic profiles - - - L4-L7 state-full traffic profiles - - - Tunneling protocol / network overlay support - - - Test case samples - - - Ping - - - Trex - - - vPE,vCGNAT, vFirewall etc - ipv4 throughput, latency etc - - - Traffic generators like Trex, ab/nginx, ixia, iperf etc - - - KPIs for a given use case: - - - System agent support for collecting NFVi KPI. This includes: - - - CPU statistic - - - Memory BW - - - OVS-DPDK Stats - - - Network KPIs, e.g., inpackets, outpackets, thoughput, latency etc - - - VNF KPIs, e.g., packet_in, packet_drop, packet_fwd etc - -Architecture -============ -The Network Service (NS) defines a set of Virtual Network Functions (VNF) -connected together using NFV infrastructure. - -The Yardstick NSB extension can support multiple VNFs created by different -vendors including traffic generators. Every VNF being tested has its -own data model. The Network service defines a VNF modelling on base of performed -network functionality. The part of the data model is a set of the configuration -parameters, number of connection points used and flavor including core and -memory amount. - -The ETSI defines a Network Service as a set of configurable VNFs working in -some NFV Infrastructure connecting each other using Virtual Links available -through Connection Points. The ETSI MANO specification defines a set of -management entities called Network Service Descriptors (NSD) and -VNF Descriptors (VNFD) that define real Network Service. The picture below -makes an example how the real Network Operator use-case can map into ETSI -Network service definition - -Network Service framework performs the necessary test steps. It may involve - - - Interacting with traffic generator and providing the inputs on traffic - type / packet structure to generate the required traffic as per the - test case. Traffic profiles will be used for this. - - - Executing the commands required for the test procedure and analyses the - command output for confirming whether the command got executed correctly - or not. E.g. As per the test case, run the traffic for the given - time period / wait for the necessary time delay - - - Verify the test result. - - - Validate the traffic flow from SUT - - - Fetch the table / data from SUT and verify the value as per the test case - - - Upload the logs from SUT onto the Test Harness server - - - Read the KPI's provided by particular VNF - -Components of Network Service ------------------------------- - -* *Models for Network Service benchmarking*: The Network Service benchmarking - requires the proper modelling approach. The NSB provides models using Python - files and defining of NSDs and VNFDs. - -The benchmark control application being a part of OPNFV yardstick can call -that python models to instantiate and configure the VNFs. Depending on -infrastructure type (bare-metal or fully virtualized) that calls could be -made directly or using MANO system. - -* *Traffic generators in NSB*: Any benchmark application requires a set of - traffic generator and traffic profiles defining the method in which traffic - is generated. - -The Network Service benchmarking model extends the Network Service -definition with a set of Traffic Generators (TG) that are treated -same way as other VNFs being a part of benchmarked network service. -Same as other VNFs the traffic generator are instantiated and terminated. - -Every traffic generator has own configuration defined as a traffic profile and -a set of KPIs supported. The python models for TG is extended by specific calls -to listen and generate traffic. - -* *The stateless TREX traffic generator*: The main traffic generator used as - Network Service stimulus is open source TREX tool. - -The TREX tool can generate any kind of stateless traffic. - -.. code-block:: console - - +--------+ +-------+ +--------+ - | | | | | | - | Trex | ---> | VNF | ---> | Trex | - | | | | | | - +--------+ +-------+ +--------+ - -Supported testcases scenarios: - - - Correlated UDP traffic using TREX traffic generator and replay VNF. - - - using different IMIX configuration like pure voice, pure video traffic etc - - - using different number IP flows like 1 flow, 1K, 16K, 64K, 256K, 1M flows - - - Using different number of rules configured like 1 rule, 1K, 10K rules - -For UDP correlated traffic following Key Performance Indicators are collected -for every combination of test case parameters: - - - RFC2544 throughput for various loss rate defined (1% is a default) - -Graphical Overview -================== - -NSB Testing with yardstick framework facilitate performance testing of various -VNFs provided. - -.. code-block:: console - - +-----------+ - | | +-----------+ - | vPE | ->|TGen Port 0| - | TestCase | | +-----------+ - | | | - +-----------+ +------------------+ +-------+ | - | | -- API --> | VNF | <---> - +-----------+ | Yardstick | +-------+ | - | Test Case | --> | NSB Testing | | - +-----------+ | | | - | | | | - | +------------------+ | - +-----------+ | +-----------+ - | Traffic | ->|TGen Port 1| - | patterns | +-----------+ - +-----------+ - - Figure 1: Network Service - 2 server configuration - |