Final documentation update for Jerma release
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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
+.. License.
 .. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
 .. (c) OPNFV, Intel Corporation and others.
 
 
-This document provides the release notes for OPNFV Euphrates of SampleVNF project.
+OPNFV Jerma Release
+===================
+* The only supported test VNF in this release for dataplane benchmarking purposes is PROX
+* PROX supporting up to DPDK:20.05
+* Introducing ability to make test cloud-configured dataplane networking benchmarks using
+  ETSI NFV TST009 standard methods
+* Test automation using X-testing
 
-.. contents::
-   :depth: 3
-   :local:
 
+OPNFV Hunter Release
+======================
 
-Version history
----------------
+This Hunter release provides *SampleVNF* as a approx VNF repository for
+VNF/NFVI testing, characterization and OPNFV feature testing, automated on
+OPNFV platform, including:
 
-+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
-| **Date**           | **Ver.**           | **Author**         | **Comment**        |
-|                    |                    |                    |                    |
-+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
-| 2017-07-17         | 0.1.0              | Deepak S           | First draft        |
-|                    |                    |                    |                    |
-+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
-|                    |                    |                    |                    |
-|                    |                    |                    |                    |
-+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
-|                    |                    |                    |                    |
-|                    |                    |                    |                    |
-+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
+* Documentation generated with Sphinx
 
-Important notes
-===============
+  * User Guide
 
-<STATE IMPORTANT NOTES/DEVdddddIATIONS SINCE PREVIOUS ITERATIVE RELEASE AND OTHER IMPORTANT NOTES FOR THIS RELEASE>
+  * Developer Guide
 
-<EXAMPLE>:
+  * Release notes (this document)
 
-**Attention:** Please be aware that since LSV3 a pre-deploy script must be ran on the Fuel master -
-see the OPNFV@Fuel SW installation instructions
+  * Results
 
+* Automated SampleVNF test suit in OPNFV Yardstick_ Project
 
-Summary
-=======
+* SampleVNF source code
 
-<SUMMARIZE THE RELEASE - THE CONTENT - AND OTHER IMPORTANT HIGH LEVEL PROPERTIES>
+For Hunter release, the *SampleVNF* supported:
 
-<EXAMPLE>:
++----------------+---------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
+| *VNF*          |                 *Name*                                  |    *version*      |
++----------------+---------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
+| *CGNAPT*       | Carrier Grade Network Address and port Translation .5.0 |     v0.1.0        |
++----------------+---------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
+| *Prox*         | Packet pROcessing eXecution engine                      |     v0.40.0       |
+|                |  acts as traffic generator, L3FWD, L2FWD, BNG etc       |                   |
++----------------+---------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
+| *vACL*         | Access Control List                                     |     v0.1.0        |
++----------------+---------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
+| *vFW*          | Firewall                                                |     v0.1.0        |
++----------------+---------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
+| *UDP_replay*   | UDP_Replay                                              |     v0.1.0        |
++----------------+---------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
 
-Arno Fuel@OPNFV is based the OpenStack Fuel upstream project version 6.0.1,
-but adds OPNFV unique components such as OpenDaylight version: Helium as well as other OPNFV unique configurations......
+.. note:: Highlevel Desgin and features supported by each of the VNFs is described in Developer
+          and user guide.
 
+For Hunter release, the *SampleVNF* is used for the following
+testing:
 
-Release Data
-============
-<STATE RELEVANT RELEASE DATA/RECORDS>
-
-<EXAMPLE>:
-
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| **Project**                          | E.g. Arno/genesis/fuel@opnfv         |
-|                                      |                                      |
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| **Repo/commit-ID**                   | E.g. genesis/adf634a0d4.....         |
-|                                      |                                      |
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| **Release designation**              | E.g. Arno RC2                        |
-|                                      |                                      |
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| **Release date**                     | E.g. 2015-04-16                      |
-|                                      |                                      |
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| **Purpose of the delivery**          | E.g. OPNFV Internal quality assurance|
-|                                      |                                      |
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+* OPNFV platform testing - generic test cases to measure the categories:
 
-Version change
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-Module version changes
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-<STATE WHAT UPSTREAM, - AS WELL AS OPNFV MODULE VERSIONS HAVE CHANGED>
+  * NFVI Characterization:
 
-<EXAMPLE>:
+    * Network
 
-- Fuel have changed from 5.1 to 6.0.1
+  * VNF Characterization:
 
-- OpenDaylight has changed from Helium-SR1 to Helium-SR2
+    * Network - rfc2544, rfc3511, latency, http_test etc
 
-Document version changes
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-<STATE WHAT RELATED DOCUMENTS THAT CHANGES WITH THIS RELEASE>
 
-<EXAMPLE>:
+The *SampleVNF* is developed in the OPNFV community, by the SampleVNF_ team.
+The *Network Service Benchmarking* SampleVNF Characterization Testing tool is a part of the
+Yardstick Project.
 
-- The Fuel@OPNFV installation guide version has changed from version 0.1 to to 0.2
-
-Reason for version
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-Feature additions
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-<STATE ADDED FEATURES BY REFERENCE TO JIRA>
+.. note:: The test case description template used for the SampleVNF in yardstick
+  test cases is based on the document ETSI-ISG NFV-TST001_; the results report template
+  used for the SampleVNF test results is based on the IEEE Std 829-2008.
 
-<EXAMPLE>:
 
-**JIRA BACK-LOG:**
+Release Data
+------------
 
 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| **JIRA REFERENCE**                   | **SLOGAN**                           |
+| **Project**                          | SampleVNF                            |
 |                                      |                                      |
 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| BGS-123                              | ADD OpenDaylight ml2 integration     |
+| **Repo/tag**                         | opnfv-8.0                            |
 |                                      |                                      |
 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| BGS-456                              | Add auto-deployment of Fuel@OPNFV    |
+| **SampleVNF Docker image tag**       | Hunter 8.0                           |
 |                                      |                                      |
 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-
-Bug corrections
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-**JIRA TICKETS:**
-
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| **JIRA REFERENCE**                   | **SLOGAN**                           |
+| **Release designation**              | Hunter 8.0                           |
 |                                      |                                      |
 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| BGS-888                              | Fuel doesn't deploy                  |
+| **Release date**                     | "May 10 2019"                        |
 |                                      |                                      |
 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| BGS-999                              | Floating IP doesn't work             |
+| **Purpose of the delivery**          | Hunter alignment to Released         |
+|                                      | bug-fixes for the following:         |
+|                                      | - Memory leak                        |
+|                                      | - minimum latency                    |
+|                                      | - Increase default mbuf size and     |
+|                                      |   code simplification/cleanup        |
+|                                      | - Crash in rx/tx distribution        |
 |                                      |                                      |
 +--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
 
-Deliverables
-----------------
-
-Software deliverables
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-<STATE WHAT SOFTWARE DELIVERABLES THAT ARE RELATED TO THIS VERSION, AND WHERE THOSE CAN BE RETRIEVED>
-
-<EXAMPLE>:
+Deliverables
+------------
 
-Documentation deliverables
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+Documents
+^^^^^^^^^
 
-<STATE WHAT DOCUMENTATION DELIVERABLES THAT ARE RELATED TO THIS VERSION, AND WHERE THOSE CAN BE RETRIEVED>
+ - User Guide: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/samplevnf/docs/testing_user_userguide/index.html
 
-<EXAMPLE>:
+ - Developer Guide: http://artifacts.opnfv.org/samplevnf/docs/testing_developer/index.html
 
 
-Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds
-=========================================
+Software Deliverables
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-System Limitations
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-<STATE ALL RELEVANT SYSTEM LIMITATIONS>
+ - The SampleVNF Docker image: To be added
 
-<EXAMPLE>:
 
-**Max number of blades:**   1 Fuel master, 3 Controllers, 20 Compute blades
+**SampleVNF tested on Contexts**
 
-**Min number of blades:**   1 Fuel master, 1 Controller, 1 Compute blade
++---------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| **Context**         | **Description**                                       |
+|                     |                                                       |
++---------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| *Heat*              | Models orchestration using OpenStack Heat             |
+|                     |                                                       |
++---------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| *Node*              | Models Baremetal, Controller, Compute                 |
+|                     |                                                       |
++---------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+| *Standalone*        | Models VM running on Non-Managed NFVi                 |
+|                     |                                                       |
++---------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
 
-**Storage:**    Ceph is the only supported storage configuration.
+Document Version Changes
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-**Max number of networks:**   3800 (Needs special switch config.)
+This is the first version of the SampleVNF  in OPNFV.
+It includes the following documentation updates:
 
-**L3Agent:**   L3 agent and floating IPs is not supported.
+- SampleVNF User Guide:
 
-Known issues
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-<STATE ALL KNOWN ISSUES WITH JIRA REFERENCE>
+- SampleVNF Developer Guide
 
-<EXAMPLE>:
+- SampleVNF Release Notes for SampleVNF: this document
 
-**JIRA TICKETS:**
 
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| **JIRA REFERENCE**                   | **SLOGAN**                           |
-|                                      |                                      |
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| BGS-987                              | Nova-compute process does            |
-|                                      | not re-spawn when killed             |
-|                                      |                                      |
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| BGS-654                              | MOS 5.1 : neutron net-list returns   |
-|                                      | "400 Bad request"                    |
-|                                      |                                      |
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-
-Workarounds
+Feature additions
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-<STATE ALL KNOWN WORKAROUNDS TO THE ISSUES STATED ABOVE>
-
-<EXAMPLE>:
-
-- In case the contact with a compute is lost - restart the compute host
-- In case the disk is full on a controller - delete all files in /tmp
-
-Test Result
-===========
-<STATE THE QA COVERAGE AND RESULTS>
-
-<EXAMPLE>:
-
-Fuel@OPNFV Arno RC2 has undergone QA test runs with the following results:
-
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| **TEST-SUITE**                       | **Results:**                         |
-|                                      |                                      |
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| Tempest test suite 123               | Following tests failed:              |
-|                                      |                                      |
-|                                      | 1. Image resizing....                |
-|                                      |                                      |
-|                                      | 2. Heat deploy....                   |
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-| Robot test suite 456                 | Following tests failed:              |
-|                                      |                                      |
-|                                      | 1.......                             |
-|                                      |                                      |
-|                                      | 2.......                             |
-+--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
-
-References
-==========
-<STATE RELEVANT REFERENCES FOR THIS RELEASE/VERSION>
-
-<EXAMPLE>:
-
-For more information on the OPNFV Danube release, please see:
+- Support for DPDK 18.05 and DPDK 18.08
+- Add support for counting non dataplane related packets
+- test improvements and fixes for image creation
+- Local Documentation Builds
+- Improve l3fwd performance
+- Enable the local cache mac address
+- Initial support for DPDK 18.05
+- Adding centos.json to be used with packer to generate a VM with PROX
+- Adding support for Ubuntu 17.10...
+- Get multiple port stats simultaneously
+- Increase default mbuf size and code simplification/cleanup
+- update from src port in the pvt/pub handler
+
+Bug fixes:
+- Fix potential crash with latency accuracy
+- TempFix: vCGNAPT/vACL ipv4 perf issue
+- Temp Fix for vFW perf issue
+- fix code standard in VNFs/DPPD-PROX/handle_esp.c
+- Workaround DPDK net/virtio queue setup issue
+- Fix potential crash when shuffling mbufs
+
+
+Known Issues/Faults
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+- Huge page freeing needs to be handled properly while running the application else it might
+  cause system crash. Known issue from DPDK.
+- UDP Replay is used to capture throughput for dynamic cgnapt
+- Hardware Checksum offload is not supported for IPv6 traffic
+- SampleVNF on sriov is tested till 4 threads
+- Rest API is supported only for vACL, vFW, vCGNAPT
+- Rest API uses port 80, make sure other webservices are stopped before using SampleVNF RestAPI.
+
+Corrected Faults
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-http://opnfv.org/danube
+Hunter 8.2:
+
++----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| **JIRA REFERENCE**         | **DESCRIPTION**                                                      |
++----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-129              |  Support for DPDK 18.05 and DPDK 18.08                               |
++----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-130              |  Add support for counting non dataplane related packets              |
++----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-131              |  test improvements and fixes for image creation                      |
++----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-132              |  Local Documentation Builds                                          |
++----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-133              |  Improve l3fwd performance                                           |
++----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-134              |  Enable the local cache mac address                                  |
++----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-135              |  Initial support for DPDK 18.05                                      |
++----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-136              |  Adding centos.json to be used with packer to generate a VM with PROX|
++----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-137              |  Adding support for Ubuntu 17.20...                                  |
++----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-138              |  Get multiple port stats simultaneously                              |
++----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-139              |  Increase default mbuf size and code simplification/cleanup          |
++----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-140              |  update from src port in the pvt/pub handler                         |
++----------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+
+
+
+Bug Fix Jira:
+
++----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| **JIRA REFERENCE**         | **DESCRIPTION**                                                   |
++----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-141              |  Fix potential crash with latency accuracy                        |
++----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-142              |  TempFix: vCGNAPT/vACL ipv4 perf issue                            |
++----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-143              |  Temp Fix for vFW perf issue                                      |
++----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-144              |  fix code standard in VNFs/DPPD-PROX/handle_esp.c                 |
++----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-145              |  Workaround DPDK net/virtio queue setup issue                     |
++----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| SAMPLEVNF-146              |  Fix potential crash when shuffling mbufs                         |
++----------------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+Hunter known restrictions/issues
+--------------------------------
++-----------+-----------+----------------------------------------------+
+| Installer | Scenario  |  Issue                                       |
++===========+===========+==============================================+
+|           |           |                                              |
++-----------+-----------+----------------------------------------------+
+
+
+Open JIRA tickets
+-----------------
+
++----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
+| **JIRA REFERENCE**         | **DESCRIPTION**                                |
+|                            |                                                |
++----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
+|                            |                                                |
+|                            |                                                |
++----------------------------+------------------------------------------------+
+
+
+Useful links
+------------
+
+ - wiki project page: https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/SAM
+
+ - wiki SampleVNF Hunter release planing page: https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/SAM/G+-+Release+SampleVNF+planning
+
+ - SampleVNF repo: https://git.opnfv.org/cgit/samplevnf
+
+ - SampleVNF IRC chanel: #opnfv-samplevnf