Congratulations to our new VSPERF PTL ... Sridhar Rao from Spirent a leading supplier of Network Test Solutions.
What is VSPERF? ... VSPERF is an automated test-framework and test suite based on Industry Test Specifications for measuring data-plane performance of the virtual switch including physical and virtual network interfaces. The VSPERF architecture is switch and traffic generator agnostic and test cases can be easily customized. VSPERF is stand-alone i.e. independent of OpenStack so it sources, configures and deploys the device-under-test with component versions and network topology defined by the user. A new IETF benchmarking specification RFC8204 is based on VSPERF work and VSPERF is contributing to development of ETSI NFV test specifications. How is VSPERF used? ... VSPERF is used as a development tool for optimizing switching technologies, qualification of packet processing functions and for evaluation of data-path performance. It is also being used to study correlations between measured platform metrics and data-plane performance. What is new in Euphrates? ... New test cases, flexibility in customizing test-cases, new results display options, improved tool resiliency, additional traffic generator support and VPP support. What do VSPERF users have to say? - VSPERF provides a platform where the entire Industry can learn more about NFVI dataplane benchmarking, and try-out new techniques together. - VSPERF CI testing has proven to be a valuable asset when examining the consistency and repeatability of the current LTD benchmarks with different deployment scenarios and vSwitches. - We have found the tool invaluable for the upstream community to be able to determine what configuration they want to use for their environment - Being able to independently quantify the overhead of switching, including being able to demonstrate the differences in acceleration technologies ... is a key benefit - Vswitch is a key element of NFV and ... it is us critical to qualify the performance of such component and to get reference on testing on other PODs. - Allow faster "hands-on" comparisons for people wanting to verify unbiased test results ... using an open-source tool, with open-source software traffic generators to quickly setup and automate tests - vSwitch benchmarking is a must-to-do ... Vsperf has integrated popular software traffic generator, ready to use, no extra cost. /Trevor
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