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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
<alan.kavanagh at ericsson.com> wrote:
> Hi Ilya
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> 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.
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> I look forward to the lightning talks.
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> /Alan
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> From: Ilya Shakhat [mailto:ishakhat at mirantis.com]
> Sent: May-14-15 11:30 PM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org)
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] Data-plane performance testing with
> Shaker
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> 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.
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> Shaker key features are:
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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
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> Docs: http://pyshaker.readthedocs.org/
> Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/shaker/
> PyPi - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyshaker/
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> Thanks,
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> Ilya
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