Euphrates 1.0 Release

Overview of Documentation

Overview

• 1. KVM4NFV Project Overview
  • 1.1. Project Purpose
  • 1.2. Project Description

KVM4NFV Installation Procedure

Installation

• 1. Abstract
• 2. KVM4NFV Installation Instruction
  • 2.1. Preparing the installation
  • 2.2. HW requirements
  • 2.3. Build instructions
  • 2.4. Installation instructions
  • 2.5. Post-installation activities
• 3. Release Note for KVM4NFV CICD
  • 3.1. Abstract
  • 3.2. Introduction
  • 3.3. Release Data
  • 3.4. Document version change
  • 3.5. Reason for new version
    • 3.5.1. Feature additions
  • 3.6. Known issues
  • 3.7. Workarounds

KVM4NFV Design Guide

Design Overview and Description

• 1. KVM4NFV design description
  • 1.1. Design Considerations
  • 1.2. Goals and Guidelines
  • 1.3. Test plan
    • 1.3.1. Reference

KVM4NFV Requirements Guide

Requirements

• 1. Kvm4nfv Requirements
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Scope and Purpose
  • 1.3. Methods and Instrumentation
  • 1.4. Features to be tested
  • 1.5. Dependencies
  • 1.6. Reference

KVM4NFV Configuration Guide

Configuration Guide

• 1. Configuration Abstract
• 2. Configuration Options
• 3. Scenariomatrix
  • 3.1. Euphrates scenario overeview
  • 3.2. Scenario Naming
  • 3.3. Installing your scenario
• 4. Low Latency Feature Configuration Description
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Configuration of Cyclictest
    • 4.2.1. Pre-configuration activities
    • 4.2.2. Hardware configuration

KVM4NFV Scenarios Overview and Description

Scenario Overview and Description

• 1. Scenario Abstract
  • 1.1. Release Features
  • 1.2. E- Release Scenario’s overview
• 2. KVM4NFV Scenario-Description
  • 2.1. Abstract
  • 2.2. Version Features
  • 2.3. Introduction
  • 2.4. System pre-requisites
  • 2.5. Environment Setup
    • 2.5.1. Enable network access after the installation
    • 2.5.2. Configuring Proxy
    • 2.5.3. Install redsocks
    • 2.5.4. Network Time Protocol (NTP) setup and configuration
  • 2.6. Scenario Testing
    • 2.6.1. Fuel
    • 2.6.2. Apex
    • 2.6.3. OPNFV-Playground
    • 2.6.4. Jenkins Project

os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk-noha Overview and Description

os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk-noha

• 1. os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk-noha Description
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Scenario Components and Composition
  • 1.3. Scenario Usage Overview
  • 1.4. Scenario Components and Composition
  • 1.5. Scenario Usage Overview
  • 1.6. References

os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk-ha Overview and Description

os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk-ha

• 1. os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk-ha Description
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Scenario Components and Composition
  • 1.3. Scenario Usage Overview
  • 1.4. Scenario Components and Composition
  • 1.5. Scenario Usage Overview
  • 1.6. References

os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk_bar-noha Overview and Description

os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk_bar-noha

• 1. os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk_bar-ha Description
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Scenario Components and Composition
  • 1.3. Scenario Usage Overview
  • 1.4. Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.5. References

os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk_bar-ha Overview and Description

os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk_bar-ha

• 1. os-nosdn-kvm_ovs_dpdk_bar-ha Description
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Scenario Components and Composition
  • 1.3. Scenario Usage Overview
  • 1.4. Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds
  • 1.5. References

KVM4NFV User Guide

User Guide

• 1. Userguide Abstract
• 2. Userguide Introduction
  • 2.1. Overview
  • 2.2. KVM4NFV Features
  • 2.3. General usage guidelines
  • 2.4. Scenarios User Guide
• 3. Using common platform components
• 4. Using Euphrates Features
• 5. FTrace Debugging Tool
  • 5.1. About Ftrace
  • 5.2. Version Features
  • 5.3. Implementation of Ftrace
  • 5.4. Files in Ftrace:
  • 5.5. Avaliable Tracers
  • 5.6. Ftrace in KVM4NFV
  • 5.7. Ftrace Usage in KVM4NFV Kernel Debugging:
  • 5.8. Enabling Ftrace in KVM4NFV
  • 5.9. Details of enable_trace script
  • 5.10. BREAKTRACE
  • 5.11. Post-execute scripts
  • 5.12. Details of disable_trace Script
  • 5.13. Publishing Ftrace logs:
• 6. KVM4NFV Dashboard Guide
  • 6.1. Dashboard for KVM4NFV Daily Test Results
  • 6.2. Abstract
  • 6.3. Version Features
  • 6.4. Installation Steps:
  • 6.5. Configuring the Dispatcher Type:
    • 6.5.1. Detailing the dispatcher module in verify and daily Jobs:
  • 6.6. Understanding Kvm4nfv Grafana Dashboard
    • 6.6.1. 1. Idle-Idle Graph
    • 6.6.2. 2. CPU_Stress-Idle Graph
    • 6.6.3. 3. Memory_Stress-Idle Graph
    • 6.6.4. 4. IO_Stress-Idle Graph
    • 6.6.5. Packet Forwarding Results
  • 6.7. Understanding Kvm4nfv Grafana Dashboard
  • 6.8. Future Scope
• 7. Low Latency Environment
  • 7.1. Hardware Environment Description
    • 7.1.1. CPU Features
    • 7.1.2. CPU Topology
    • 7.1.3. BIOS Setup
  • 7.2. Software Environment Setup
    • 7.2.1. Kernel Parameter
    • 7.2.2. Run-time Environment Setup
  • 7.3. Test cases to measure Latency
  • 7.4. 1. Cyclictest case
    • 7.4.1. Understanding the naming convention
    • 7.4.2. Version Features
    • 7.4.3. Idle-Idle test-type
    • 7.4.4. CPU_Stress-Idle test-type
    • 7.4.5. Memory_Stress-Idle test-type
    • 7.4.6. IO_Stress-Idle test-type
    • 7.4.7. CPU_Stress-CPU_Stress test-type
    • 7.4.8. Memory_Stress-Memory_Stress test-type
    • 7.4.9. IO_Stress-IO_Stress test type
  • 7.5. 2. Packet Forwarding Test cases
    • 7.5.1. Packet forwarding to Host
    • 7.5.2. Packet forwarding to Guest
    • 7.5.3. Packet forwarding to Guest using SRIOV
• 8. Fast Live Migration
  • 8.1. Current Challenges
  • 8.2. Optimizations
  • 8.3. Test Environment
  • 8.4. Test Result
• 9. Euphrates OpenStack User Guide
  • 9.1. OpenStack references
  • 9.2. Connecting to the OpenStack instance
• 10. Packet Forwarding
  • 10.1. About Packet Forwarding
  • 10.2. Version Features
  • 10.3. VSPERF
    • 10.3.1. Installation
    • 10.3.2. Supported Operating Systems
    • 10.3.3. Supported vSwitches
    • 10.3.4. Supported Hypervisors
    • 10.3.5. Other Requirements
    • 10.3.6. For CentOS 7
    • 10.3.7. Working Behind a Proxy
  • 10.4. Traffic-Generators
  • 10.5. IXIA Setup
    • 10.5.1. Hardware Requirements
    • 10.5.2. Installation
    • 10.5.3. On the CentOS 7 system
    • 10.5.4. On the IXIA client software system
  • 10.6. VSPERF configuration
    • 10.6.1. Test results share
    • 10.6.2. Cloning and building src dependencies
    • 10.6.3. Configure the ./conf/10_custom.conf file
    • 10.6.4. Using a custom settings file
    • 10.6.5. vloop_vnf
    • 10.6.6. l2fwd Kernel Module
    • 10.6.7. Executing tests
  • 10.7. Testcases
  • 10.8. VSPERF modes of operation
  • 10.9. Packet Forwarding Test Scenarios
    • 10.9.1. Packet Forwarding Host Scenario
    • 10.9.2. Packet Forwarding Guest Scenario (PXP Deployment)
    • 10.9.3. Packet Forwarding SRIOV Scenario
    • 10.9.4. Using vfio_pci with DPDK
    • 10.9.5. Using SRIOV support
    • 10.9.6. Results
• 11. PCM Utility in KVM4NFV
  • 11.1. Collecting Memory Bandwidth Information using PCM utility
  • 11.2. About PCM utility
  • 11.3. Version Features
    • 11.3.1. Implementation of pcm-memory.x:
    • 11.3.2. pcm-memory.x in KVM4NFV:
  • 11.4. Future Scope
• 12. Low Latency Tunning Suggestion
  • 12.1. Platform Configuration
  • 12.2. Operating System Configuration

KVM4NFV Releasenotes