Even if your bottleneck is the underlay, it still tells you the performance of the overlay that your tenants will experience, which is the relevant piece of information for a deployer.
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Alan Kavanagh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ilya > > > > I am interested in this and many thanks for posting this. I have to ask how > relevant the performance testing is given that Neutron overlays are > dependent on the underlay? I believe your point 4 below I can see some uses > and value for, but I am struggling to this been used as a “tool for > data-plane performance testing” in Neutron networks. > > > > I look forward to the lightning talks. > > /Alan > > > > From: Ilya Shakhat [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: May-14-15 11:30 PM > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List ([email protected]) > Subject: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] Data-plane performance testing with > Shaker > > > > Hi all! > > Let me introduce you Shaker - a tool for data-plane performance testing in > OpenStack. The motivation behind it is to have a simple way for measuring > networking bandwidth between instances. > > Shaker key features are: > > > 1. User-defined topology. The topology is specified as Heat template, so > users may do arbitrary configuration for instances, networks, routers, > floating ips, etc. Instance scheduling is controlled, it is possible to > specify number of instances per compute node and their location. > > > 2. Simultaneous test execution. By default Shaker runs tests synchronously > on all deployed instances. It is also possible to increase the load, thus > measuring dependency on number of concurrently working instances. The > feature is useful when one needs to find bottleneck in the cloud (like usage > of non-DVR routers). > > > 3. Pluggable tools. Out of the box Shaker supports iperf, netperf and able > to calculate aggregated stats based on their output. Adding a new tool is > easy, in the simplest case it does not even require coding. > > > 4. Interactive report. Shaker produces report as single-page HTML > application. The report contains aggregated charts for bandwidth depending > on concurrency, bandwidth per node and precise timeline of traffic on every > node. The report does not have any dependencies and can be shared easily. > > If you are interested in knowing more about Shaker welcome to Neutron > Lightning talk presentation by Oleg Bondarev next Wed in Vancouver > (http://sched.co/3BNR). > > And certainly welcome to use and contribute! > > Code: https://github.com/stackforge/shaker > > Docs: http://pyshaker.readthedocs.org/ > Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/shaker/ > PyPi - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyshaker/ > > > > Thanks, > > Ilya > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > -- Kevin Benton __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
