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Yardstick Test Case Description TC043
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.. _cirros-image: https://download.cirros-cloud.net
.. _Ping: https://linux.die.net/man/8/ping
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|Network Latency Between NFVI Nodes |
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|test case id | OPNFV_YARDSTICK_TC043_LATENCY_BETWEEN_NFVI_NODES |
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|metric | RTT (Round Trip Time) |
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|test purpose | The purpose of TC043 is to do a basic verification that |
| | network latency is within acceptable boundaries when packets |
| | travel between different NFVI nodes. |
| | |
| | The purpose is also to be able to spot the trends. |
| | Test results, graphs and similar shall be stored for |
| | comparison reasons and product evolution understanding |
| | between different OPNFV versions and/or configurations. |
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|test tool | ping |
| | |
| | Ping is a computer network administration software utility |
| | used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet |
| | Protocol (IP) network. It measures the round-trip time for |
| | packet sent from the originating host to a destination |
| | computer that are echoed back to the source. |
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|test topology | Ping packets (ICMP protocol's mandatory ECHO_REQUEST |
| | datagram) are sent from host node to target node to elicit |
| | ICMP ECHO_RESPONSE. |
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|configuration | file: opnfv_yardstick_tc043.yaml |
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| | 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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|applicability | This test case can be configured with different: |
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| | * packet sizes; |
| | * burst sizes; |
| | * ping intervals; |
| | * test durations; |
| | * test iterations. |
| | |
| | Default values exist. |
| | |
| | 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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|references | Ping_ |
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| | ETSI-NFV-TST001 |
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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 | Yardstick is connected with the NFVI node by using ssh. |
| | 'ping_benchmark' bash script is copyied from Jump Host to |
| | the NFVI node via the ssh tunnel. |
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|step 2 | Ping is invoked. Ping packets are sent from server node to |
| | client node. RTT results are calculated and checked against |
| | the SLA. Logs are produced and stored. |
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| | 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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