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On Oct 17, 2013 12:45 AM, "Boris Pavlovic" <bpavlovic at mirantis.com> wrote:

> Hi Stackers,
>
>
> We are thrilled to present to you Rally, the benchmarking system for
> OpenStack.
>
>
> It is not a secret that we have performance & scaling issues and that
> OpenStack won’t scale out of box. It is also well known that if you get
> your super big DC (5k-15k servers) you are able to find & fix all OpenStack
> issues in few months (like Rackspace, BlueHost & others have proved). So
> the problem with performance at scale is solvable.
>
>
> The main blocker to fix such issues in community is that there is no
> simple way to get relevant and repeatable “numbers” that represent
> OpenStack performance at scale. It is not enough to tune an individual
> OpenStack component, because its performance at scale is no guarantee that
> it will not introduce a bottleneck somewhere else.
>
>
> The correct approach to comprehensively test OpenStack scalability, in our
> opinion, consists of the following four steps:
>
> 1)  Deploy OpenStack
> 2)  Create load by simultaneously making OpenStack API calls
> 3)  Collect performance and profile data
> 4)  Make data easy to consume by presenting it in a humanly readable form
>
>
> Rally is the system that implements all the steps above plus it maintains
> an extendable repository of standard performance tests. To use Rally, a
> user has to specify where to deploy OS, select the deployment mechanism
> (DevStack, Triple-O, Fuel, Etc.) and the set of benchmarking tests to run.
>
> For more details and how to use it take a look at our wiki
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Rally it should already work out of box.
>
>
> Happy hunting!
>
>
> Links:
>
> 1. Code: https://github.com/stackforge/rally
>
> 2. Wiki: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Rally
>
> 2. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/rally
>
> 3. Statistics:
> http://stackalytics.com/?release=havana&project_type=All&module=rally
>
> 4. RoadMap: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Rally/RoadMap
>
>
> Best regards,
> Boris Pavlovic
> ---
> Mirantis Inc.
>
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