API
Application Programming Interface
- DPI
- Deep Packet Inspection
+ Barometer
+ OPNFV NFVi Service Assurance project. Barometer upstreams changes to
+ collectd, OpenStack, etc to improve features related to NFVi monitoring
+ and service assurance.
+ More info on: https://opnfv-barometer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
+
+ collectd
+ collectd is a system statistics collection daemon.
+ More info on: https://collectd.org/
+
+ context
+ A context describes the environment in which a yardstick testcase will
+ be run. It can refer to a pre-provisioned environment, or an environment
+ that will be set up using OpenStack or Kubernetes.
+
+ Docker
+ Docker provisions and manages containers. Yardstick and many other OPNFV
+ projects are deployed in containers. Docker is required to launch the
+ containerized versions of these projects.
DPDK
Data Plane Development Kit
+ DPI
+ Deep Packet Inspection
+
DSCP
Differentiated Services Code Point
+ flavor
+ A specification of virtual resources used by OpenStack in the creation
+ of a VM instance.
+
+ Grafana
+ A visualization tool, used in Yardstick to retrieve test data from
+ InfluxDB and display it. Grafana works by defining dashboards, which are
+ combinations of visualization panes (e.g. line charts and gauges) and
+ forms that assist the user in formulating SQL-like queries for InfluxDB.
+ More info on: https://grafana.com/
+
IGMP
Internet Group Management Protocol
+ InfluxDB
+ One of the Dispatchers supported by Yardstick, it allows test results to
+ be reported to a time-series database.
+ More info on: https://www.influxdata.com/
+
IOPS
Input/Output Operations Per Second
+ A performance measurement used to benchmark storage devices.
+
+ KPI
+ Key Performance Indicator
+
+ Kubernetes
+ k8s
+ Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating
+ deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications.
+ It is one of the contexts supported in Yardstick.
+
+ MPLS
+ Multiprotocol Label Switching
+
+ NFV
+ Network Function Virtualization
+ NFV is an initiative to take network services which were traditionally run
+ on proprietary, dedicated hardware, and virtualize them to run on general
+ purpose hardware.
+
+ NFVI
+ Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure
+ The servers, routers, switches, etc on which the NFV system runs.
NIC
Network Interface Controller
+ NSB
+ Network Services Benchmarking. A subset of Yardstick features concerned
+ with NFVI and VNF characterization.
+
+ OpenStack
+ OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls pools of compute,
+ storage, and networking resources. OpenStack is an open source project
+ licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
+
PBFS
Packet Based per Flow State
+ PROX
+ Packet pROcessing eXecution engine
+
QoS
Quality of Service
+ The ability to guarantee certain network or storage requirements to
+ satisfy a Service Level Agreement (SLA) between an application provider
+ and end users.
+ Typically includes performance requirements like networking bandwidth,
+ latency, jitter correction, and reliability as well as storage
+ performance in Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS), throttling
+ agreements, and performance expectations at peak load
+
+ runner
+ The part of a Yardstick testcase that determines how the test will be run
+ (e.g. for x iterations, y seconds or until state z is reached). The runner
+ also determines when the metrics are collected/reported.
+
+ SampleVNF
+ OPNFV project providing a repository of reference VNFs.
+ More info on: https://opnfv-samplevnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
+
+ scenario
+ The part of a Yardstick testcase that describes each test step.
+
+ SLA
+ Service Level Agreement
+ An SLA is an agreement between a service provider and a customer to
+ provide a certain level of service/performance.
+
+ SR-IOV
+ Single Root IO Virtualization
+ A specification that, when implemented by a physical PCIe
+ device, enables it to appear as multiple separate PCIe devices. This
+ enables multiple virtualized guests to share direct access to the
+ physical device.
+
+ SUT
+ System Under Test
+
+ testcase
+ A task in Yardstick; the yaml file that is read by Yardstick to
+ determine how to run a test.
+
+ ToS
+ Type of Service
VLAN
- Virtual LAN
+ Virtual LAN (Local Area Network)
VM
Virtual Machine
+ An operating system instance that runs on top of a hypervisor.
+ Multiple VMs can run at the same time on the same physical
+ host.
VNF
Virtual Network Function
VNFC
Virtual Network Function Component
-
- NFVI
- Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure
-
- SR-IOV
- Single Root IO Virtualization
-
- SUT
- System Under Test
-
- ToS
- Type of Service
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