# option, e.g. "--interval"
-# Name of the image to use for launching the loopback VMs. This name must be
-# the exact same name used in OpenStack (as shown from 'nova image-list')
-# Can be overridden by --image or -i
-image_name: 'nfvbenchvm'
# Forwarder to use in nfvbenchvm image. Available options: ['vpp', 'testpmd']
vm_forwarder: testpmd
-# NFVbench can automatically upload a VM image if the image named by
-# image_name is missing, for that you need to specify a file location where
-# the image can be retrieved
-#
-# To upload the image as a file, download it to preferred location
-# and prepend it with file:// like in this example:
-# file://<location of the image>
-# NFVbench (the image must have the same name as defined in image_name above).
+# By default (empty) NFVBench will try to locate a VM image file
+# from the package root directory named "nfvbench-<version>.qcow2" and
+# upload that file. The image name will be "nfvbench-<version>"
+# This can be overridden by specifying here a pathname of a file
+# that follows the same naming convention.
+# In most cases, this field should be left empty as the packaging should
+# include the proper VM image file
vm_image_file:
# Name of the flavor to use for the loopback VMs
# Number of vCPUs for the flavor
vcpus: 2
# Memory for the flavor in MB
- ram: 8192
+ ram: 4096
# Size of local disk in GB
disk: 0
# metadata are supported and can be added if needed, optional
# value was configured. Must be even.
# Every flow has packets with different IPs in headers
# Can be overriden by --flow-count
-flow_count: 2
+flow_count: 10000
# Used by PVVP chain to spawn VMs on different compute nodes
# Can be overriden by --inter-node
# The openrc file
openrc_file:
+# Number of seconds to wait for VMs to pass traffic in both directions
+check_traffic_time_sec: 200
+
# General retry count
generic_retry_count: 100
# Defaults to disabled
log_file:
-# When enabled, all logs will be sent to a fluentd server at the requested IP and port
-# The fluentd "tag" and "label" fields for every message will be set to "nfvbench"
+# When enabled, all results and/or logs will be sent to a fluentd servers at the requested IPs and ports
+# A list of one or more fluentd servers identified by their IPs and port numbers should be given.
+# For each recipient it is possible to enable both sending logs and performance
+# results, or enable either logs or performance results. For enabling logs or results logging_tag or
+# result_tag should be set.
+
fluentd:
- # by default (logging_tag is empty) nfvbench log messages are not sent to fluentd
- # to enable logging to fluents, specify a valid fluentd tag name to be used for the
- # log records
- logging_tag:
+ # by default (logging_tag is empty) nfvbench log messages are not sent to fluentd
+ # to enable logging to fluents, specify a valid fluentd tag name to be used for the
+ # log records
+ - logging_tag:
- # IP address of the server, defaults to loopback
- ip: 127.0.0.1
+ # by default (result_tag is empty) nfvbench results are not sent to fluentd
+ # to enable sending nfvbench results to fluentd, specify a valid fluentd tag name
+ # to be used for the results records, which is different than logging_tag
+ result_tag:
- # port # to use, by default, use the default fluentd forward port
- port: 24224
+ # IP address of the server, defaults to loopback
+ ip: 127.0.0.1
+
+ # port # to use, by default, use the default fluentd forward port
+ port: 24224
+
+ # by default (logging_tag is empty) nfvbench log messages are not sent to fluentd
+ # to enable logging to fluents, specify a valid fluentd tag name to be used for the
+ # log records
# Module and class name of factory which will be used to provide classes dynamically for other components.
factory_module: 'nfvbench.factory'
factory_class: 'BasicFactory'
+
+# Custom label added for every perf record generated during this run.
+# Can be overriden by --user-label
+user_label:
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