The Yardstick framework, the Yardstick test cases are open-source software,
licensed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.

1.1. Yardstick Release Notes

1.1.1. Abstract

This document compiles the release notes for the Hunter release of OPNFV Yardstick.

1.1.2. Version History

Date Version Comment
May 10, 2019 8.0.0 Yardstick for Hunter release

1.1.3. Important Notes

The software delivered in the OPNFV Yardstick Project, comprising the Yardstick framework, and the Yardstick test cases is a realization of the methodology in ETSI-ISG NFV-TST001.

The Yardstick framework is installer, infrastructure and application independent.

1.1.4. OPNFV Hunter Release

This Hunter release provides Yardstick as a framework for NFVI testing and OPNFV feature testing, automated in the OPNFV CI pipeline, including:

  • Documentation generated with Sphinx
    • User Guide
    • Developer Guide
    • Release notes (this document)
    • Results
  • Automated Yardstick test suite (daily, weekly)
    • Jenkins Jobs for OPNFV community labs
  • Automated Yardstick test results visualization
    • Dashboard using Grafana (user:opnfv/password: opnfv), influxDB is used as backend
  • Yardstick framework source code
  • Yardstick test cases yaml files
  • Yardstick plug-in configuration yaml files, plug-in install/remove scripts

For Hunter release, the Yardstick framework is used for the following testing:

  • OPNFV platform testing - generic test cases to measure the categories:
    • Compute
    • Network
    • Storage
  • OPNFV platform network service benchmarking (NSB)
    • NSB
  • Test cases for the following OPNFV Projects:
    • Container4NFV
    • High Availability
    • IPv6
    • KVM
    • Parser
    • StorPerf
    • VSperf

The Yardstick framework is developed in the OPNFV community, by the Yardstick team.

Note

The test case description template used for the Yardstick test cases is based on the document ETSI-ISG NFV-TST001; the results report template used for the Yardstick results is based on the IEEE Std 829-2008.

1.1.5. Release Data

Project Yardstick
Repo/tag yardstick/opnfv-8.0.0
Yardstick Docker image tag opnfv-8.0.0
Release designation Hunter 8.0
Release date May 10, 2019
Purpose of the delivery OPNFV Hunter 8.0.0

1.1.6. Deliverables

1.1.6.1. Documents

  • User Guide: <yardstick:userguide>
  • Developer Guide: <yardstick:devguide>

1.1.6.2. Software Deliverables

1.1.6.2.1. List of Contexts

Context Description
Heat Models orchestration using OpenStack Heat
Node Models Baremetal, Controller, Compute
Standalone Models VM running on Non-Managed NFVi
Kubernetes Models VM running on Non-Managed NFVi

1.1.6.2.2. List of Runners

Runner Description
Arithmetic Steps every run arithmetically according to specified input value
Duration Runs for a specified period of time
Iteration Runs for a specified number of iterations
IterationIPC Runs a configurable number of times before it returns. Each iteration has a configurable timeout.
Sequence Selects input value to a scenario from an input file and runs all entries sequentially
Dynamictp A runner that searches for the max throughput with binary search
Search A runner that runs a specific time before it returns

1.1.6.2.3. List of Scenarios

Category Delivered
Availability

Attacker:

  • baremetal, process

HA tools:

  • check host, openstack, process, service
  • kill process
  • start/stop service

Monitor:

  • command, process
Compute
  • cpuload
  • cyclictest
  • lmbench
  • lmbench_cache
  • perf
  • unixbench
  • ramspeed
  • cachestat
  • memeoryload
  • computecapacity
  • SpecCPU2006
Networking
  • iperf3
  • netperf
  • netperf_node
  • ping
  • ping6
  • pktgen
  • sfc
  • sfc with tacker
  • networkcapacity
  • netutilization
  • nstat
  • pktgenDPDK
Parser Tosca2Heat
Storage
  • fio
  • bonnie++
  • storagecapacity
StorPerf storperf
NSB vFW thoughput test case

1.1.6.3. New Test cases

Note

Yardstick Hunter 8.0.0 adds no new test cases.

1.1.7. Version Change

1.1.7.1. Module Version Changes

This is the seventh tracked release of Yardstick. It is based on following upstream versions:

  • OpenStack Rocky

1.1.7.2. Document Version Changes

This is the seventh tracked version of the Yardstick framework in OPNFV. It includes the following documentation updates:

  • Yardstick User Guide:
  • Yardstick Developer Guide
  • Yardstick Release Notes for Yardstick: this document

1.1.7.3. Feature additions

  • Add TRex Baremetal/SA scale up test cases.
  • Add possibility to distribute DPDK/vhost-user ports/queues between CPU cores.
  • Adding scale up test case for l3fwd OvS-DPDK.
  • Add Testcase Prox Standalone SRIOV.
  • Add vBNG PPPoE test cases functionality.
  • Add IXIA Baremetal scale up testcases.
  • Add vIPSEC testcases.
  • Add TRex Baremetal/SA scale up test cases.
  • Add OpenStack test cases with different framesize and IMIX.
  • Add new scenario NSPerf-RFC3511.
  • Add VPP traffic profiles for TRex traffic generator.
  • Add Trex traffic generator to initate Traffic for VPP IPSEC.
  • Add IxNextgen API for setting IP priority, flow tracking options, creating BGP protocol layer.
  • Add Pktgen traffic generator for vCMTS.
  • Add Trex traffic generator to initate Traffic for VPP IPSEC.
  • Add sipp trafficgen based SampleVNFTrafficGen.
  • Add ansible scripts to deploy Kubernetes.
  • Update NSB report to use Barometer metrics.
  • Support using existing private key when using external heat template file.

1.1.8. Scenario Matrix

1.1.9. Test results

Test results are available in:

1.1.9.1. Known Issues/Faults

1.1.9.2. Corrected Faults

1.1.10. Hunter 8.0.0 known restrictions/issues