NFV Data Plane Benchmarking Solution for Spirent Methodology Center Solution Brief

PublishTime：2022-07-04

■Performance Benchmarking of NFV data plane is a critical aspect of helping Service Providers in making the transition to NFV based network. Shared infrastructure and multi-tenant environment introduces complexity in test scenarios making the traditional benchmarking procedures of relying entirely on test traffic metrics insufficient for data plane benchmarking in an NFV environment.
■Spirent provides a comprehensive set of test methodologies to benchmark NFV data plane that provide insights into NFVi resource utilization in addition to network performance metrics. NFVi resource utilization metrics and test traffic performance metrics together enable Service Providers to characterize user workloads and VNF performance in terms of NFVi resource utilization. This in turn helps the Service Providers with capacity planning, resource provisioning and identifying performance bottlenecks in an NFV environment.
●VNF and Service Performance Characterization
■In a shared environment network performance of a VNF is not just a function of the VNF implementation, but it also depends on the performance of the NFVi and performance isolation provided by the virtualization layer.
■Performance characterization of VNFs and service workloads in terms of NFVi resource utilization is paramount. This characterization not only helps the Service Providers in comparing the performance of different VNF vendors but it also provides insight into how efficiently the VNFs utilize the allocated NFVi resources. Network performance per NFVi resource unit is an important performance metric in such scenarios.
■Additionally, VNF and service performance characterization enables the optimization of VNF implementations by providing detailed NFVi resource utilization statistics and correlation to user workload statistics.
●Features
■Comprehensive set of automated benchmarking methodologies for L2-L7 VNFs and virtual switch
■Characterization of network performance metrics for VNFs in terms of NFVi resource utilization statistics
■ Performance bottleneck analysis with NFVi resource utilization stats
■ Workload event correlation with NFVi resource utilization stats
■ DPDK performance statistics
■ Save test result reports in XLS, PDF or DOCX formats
■ Browser-based UI works on any popular operating systemBenefits
■ Data plane performance benchmarking of VNF, virtual switch and VNF service chains
■ Performance Fault Isolation in a multi-vendor multi-tenant NFV environment
■ Optimized VNF provisioning and efficient workload placement
■ User workload characterization for capacity planning
■ Support for Spirent TestCenter hardware or Spirent TestCenter Virtual

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