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Yardstick Test Case Description TC043
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|Network Latency Between NFVI Nodes                                           |
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|test case id  | OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC043_Latency_between_                       |
|              | NFVI_nodes_measurements                                      |
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|metric        | RTT, Round Trip Time                                         |
|              |                                                              |
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|test purpose  | To do a basic verification that network latency is within    |
|              | acceptable boundaries when packets travel between different  |
|              | nodes.                                                       |
|              |                                                              |
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|configuration | file: opnfv_yardstick_tc043.yaml                             |
|              |                                                              |
|              | Packet size 100 bytes. Total test duration 600 seconds.      |
|              | One ping each 10 seconds. SLA RTT is set to maximum 10 ms.   |
|              |                                                              |
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|test tool     | ping                                                         |
|              |                                                              |
|              | Ping is normally part of any Linux distribution, hence it    |
|              | doesn't need to be installed. It is also part of the         |
|              | Yardstick Docker image.                                      |
|              |                                                              |
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|references    | Ping man page                                                |
|              |                                                              |
|              | ETSI-NFV-TST001                                              |
|              |                                                              |
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|applicability | Test case can be configured with different packet sizes,     |
|              | burst sizes, ping intervals and test duration.               |
|              | SLA is optional. The SLA in this test case serves as an      |
|              | example. Considerably lower RTT is expected, and             |
|              | also normal to achieve in balanced L2 environments. However, |
|              | to cover most configurations, both bare metal and fully      |
|              | virtualized ones, this value should be possible to achieve   |
|              | and acceptable for black box testing. Many real time         |
|              | applications start to suffer badly if the RTT time is higher |
|              | than this. Some may suffer bad also close to this RTT, while |
|              | others may not suffer at all. It is a compromise that may    |
|              | have to be tuned for different configuration purposes.       |
|              |                                                              |
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|pre_test      | Each pod node must have ping included in it.                 |
|conditions    |                                                              |
|              |                                                              |
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|test sequence | description and expected result                              |
|              |                                                              |
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|step 1        | The pod is available. Two nodes as server and client.        |
|              | Ping is invoked and logs are produced and stored.            |
|              |                                                              |
|              | Result: Logs are stored.                                     |
|              |                                                              |
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|test verdict  | Test should not PASS if any RTT is above the optional SLA    |
|              | value, or if there is a test case execution problem.         |
|              |                                                              |
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