From e9ea496568d03f28718e45f7f5a9d80191698120 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emma Foley Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 13:38:57 +0100 Subject: [docs] Remove vtc results chapter and references The vTC chapter in the userguide was previously removed [1] Some references and results still remained and needed to be removed. [1] https://gerrit.opnfv.org/gerrit/gitweb?p=yardstick.git;a=commit;h=114a486558c96152fffb5050840460a54de64d15 JIRA: YARDSTICK-1335 Change-Id: I17806d90ae8bc4dbf813ef89bbc22dc012b4a686 Signed-off-by: Emma Foley (cherry picked from commit 766d498f9f4abcb79710d077c6a1886ae11a4c0a) --- docs/release/results/yardstick-opnfv-vtc.rst | 248 --------------------------- 1 file changed, 248 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 docs/release/results/yardstick-opnfv-vtc.rst (limited to 'docs/release/results/yardstick-opnfv-vtc.rst') diff --git a/docs/release/results/yardstick-opnfv-vtc.rst b/docs/release/results/yardstick-opnfv-vtc.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 059b5491f..000000000 --- a/docs/release/results/yardstick-opnfv-vtc.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,248 +0,0 @@ -.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International -.. License. -.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 - -.. _Dashboard006: http://testresults.opnfv.org/grafana/dashboard/db/yardstick-tc006 -.. _Dashboard007: http://testresults.opnfv.org/grafana/dashboard/db/yardstick-tc007 -.. _Dashboard020: http://testresults.opnfv.org/grafana/dashboard/db/yardstick-tc020 -.. _Dashboard021: http://testresults.opnfv.org/grafana/dashboard/db/yardstick-tc021 -.. _DashboardVTC: http://testresults.opnfv.org/grafana/dashboard/db/vtc-dashboard -==================================== -Test Results for yardstick-opnfv-vtc -==================================== - -.. toctree:: - :maxdepth: 2 - - -Details -======= - -.. after this doc is filled, remove all comments and include the scenario in -.. results.rst by removing the comment on the file name. - - -Overview of test results ------------------------- - -.. general on metrics collected, number of iterations - -The virtual Traffic Classifier (vtc) Scenario supported by Yardstick is used by 4 Test Cases: - -- TC006 -- TC007 -- TC020 -- TC021 - - -* TC006 - -TC006 is the Virtual Traffic Classifier Data Plane Throughput Benchmarking Test. -It collects measures about the end-to-end throughput supported by the -virtual Traffic Classifier (vTC). -Results of the test are shown in the Dashboard006_ -The throughput is expressed as percentage of the available bandwidth on the NIC. - - -* TC007 - -TC007 is the Virtual Traffic Classifier Data Plane Throughput Benchmarking in presence of -noisy neighbors Test. -It collects measures about the end-to-end throughput supported by the -virtual Traffic Classifier when a user-defined number of noisy neighbors is deployed. -Results of the test are shown in the Dashboard007_ -The throughput is expressed as percentage of the available bandwidth on the NIC. - - -* TC020 - -TC020 is the Virtual Traffic Classifier Instantiation Test. -It verifies that a newly instantiated vTC is alive and functional and its instantiation -is correctly supported by the underlying infrastructure. -Results of the test are shown in the Dashboard020_ - - -* TC021 - -TC021 is the Virtual Traffic Classifier Instantiation in presence of noisy neighbors Test. -It verifies that a newly instantiated vTC is alive and functional and its instantiation -is correctly supported by the underlying infrastructure when noisy neighbors are present. -Results of the test are shown in the Dashboard021_ - -* Generic - -In the Generic scenario the Virtual Traffic Classifier is running on a standard Openstack -setup and traffic is being replayed from a neighbor VM. The traffic sent contains -various protocols and applications, and the VTC identifies them and exports the data. -Results of the test are shown in the DashboardVTC. - -Detailed test results ---------------------- - -* TC006 - -The results for TC006 have been obtained using the following test case -configuration: - -- Context: Dummy -- Scenario: vtc_throughput -- Network Techology: SR-IOV -- vTC Flavor: m1.large - - -* TC007 - -The results for TC007 have been obtained using the following test case -configuration: - -- Context: Dummy -- Scenario: vtc_throughput_noisy -- Network Techology: SR-IOV -- vTC Flavor: m1.large -- Number of noisy neighbors: 2 -- Number of cores per neighbor: 2 -- Amount of RAM per neighbor: 1G - - -* TC020 - -The results for TC020 have been obtained using the following test case -configuration: - -The results listed in previous section have been obtained using the following -test case configuration: - -- Context: Dummy -- Scenario: vtc_instantiation_validation -- Network Techology: SR-IOV -- vTC Flavor: m1.large - - -* TC021 - -The results listed in previous section have been obtained using the following -test case configuration: - -- Context: Dummy -- Scenario: vtc_instantiation_validation -- Network Techology: SR-IOV -- vTC Flavor: m1.large -- Number of noisy neighbors: 2 -- Number of cores per neighbor: 2 -- Amount of RAM per neighbor: 1G - - -For all the test cases, the user can specify different values for the parameters. - -* Generic - -The results listed in the previous section have been obtained, using a -standard Openstack setup. -The user can replay his/her own traffic and see the corresponding results. - -Rationale for decisions ------------------------ - -* TC006 - -The result of the test is a number between 0 and 100 which represents the percentage of bandwidth -available on the NIC that corresponds to the supported throughput by the vTC. - - -* TC007 - -The result of the test is a number between 0 and 100 which represents the percentage of bandwidth -available on the NIC that corresponds to the supported throughput by the vTC. - -* TC020 - -The execution of the test is done as described in the following: - -- The vTC is deployed on the OpenStack testbed; -- Some traffic is sent to the vTC; -- The vTC changes the header of the packets and sends them back to the packet generator; -- The packet generator checks that all the packets are received correctly and have been changed -correctly by the vTC. - -The test is declared as PASSED if all the packets are correcly received by the packet generator -and they have been modified by the virtual Traffic Classifier as required. - - -* TC021 - -The execution of the test is done as described in the following: - -- The vTC is deployed on the OpenStack testbed; -- The noisy neighbors are deployed as requested by the user; -- Some traffic is sent to the vTC; -- The vTC change the header of the packets and sends them back to the packet generator; -- The packet generator checks that all the packets are received correctly and have been changed -correctly by the vTC - -The test is declared as PASSED if all the packets are correcly received by the packet generator -and they have been modified by the virtual Traffic Classifier as required. - -* Generic - -The execution of the test consists of the following actions: - -- The vTC is deployed on the OpenStack testbed; -- The traffic generator VM is deployed on the Openstack Testbed; -- Traffic data are relevant to the network setup; -- Traffic is sent to the vTC; - - - -Conclusions and recommendations -------------------------------- - -* TC006 - -The obtained results show that the virtual Traffic Classifier can support up to 4 Gbps -(40% of the available bandwidth) correspond to the expected behaviour of the virtual -Traffic Classifier. -Using the configuration with SR-IOV and large flavor, the expected throughput should -generally be in the range between 3 and 4 Gbps. - - -* TC007 - -These results correspond to the configuration in which the virtual Traffic Classifier uses SR-IOV -Virtual Functions and the flavor is set to large for the virtual machine. -The throughput is in the range between 2.5 Gbps and 3.7 Gbps. -This shows that the effect of 2 noisy neighbors reduces the throughput of -the service between 10 and 20%. -Increasing number of neihbours would have a higher impact on the performance. - - -* TC020 - -The obtained results correspond to the expected behaviour of the virtual Traffic Classifier. -Using the configuration with SR-IOV and large flavor, the expected result is that the vTC is -correctly instantiated, it is able to receive and send packets using SR-IOV technology -and to forward packets back to the packet generator changing the TCP/IP header as required. - - -* TC021 - -The obtained results correspond to the expected behaviour of the virtual Traffic Classifier. -Using the configuration with SR-IOV and large flavor, the expected result is that the vTC is -correctly instantiated, it is able to receive and send packets using SR-IOV technology -and to forward packets back to the packet generator changing the TCP/IP header as required, -also in presence of noisy neighbors. - -* Generic - -The obtained results correspond to the expected behaviour of the virtual Traffic Classifier. -Using the aforementioned configuration the expected application protocols are identified -and their traffic statistics are demonstrated in the DashboardVTC, a group of popular -applications is selected to demonstrate the sound operation of the vTC. -The demonstrated application protocols are: -- HTTP -- Skype -- Bittorrent -- Youtube -- Dropbox -- Twitter -- Viber -- iCloud -- cgit 1.2.3-korg