vmtp 2.5.0

Features

Have you ever had the need for a quick, simple and automatable way to get VM-level or host-level single-flow throughput and latency numbers from any OpenStack cloud, and take into account various Neutron topologies? Or check whether some OpenStack configuration option, Neutron plug-in performs to expectation or if there is any data path impact for upgrading to a different OpenStack release?

VMTP is a small python application that will automatically perform ping connectivity, round trip time measurement (latency) and TCP/UDP throughput measurement for the following East/West flows on any OpenStack deployment:

• VM to VM same network (private fixed IP, flow #1)

• VM to VM different network using fixed IP (same as intra-tenant L3 fixed IP, flow #2)

• VM to VM different network using floating IP and NAT (same as floating IP inter-tenant L3, flow #3)

Optionally, when an external Linux host is available for testing North/South flows:

• External host/VM download and upload throughput/latency (L3/floating IP, flow #4 and #5)

Optionally, when SSH login to any Linux host (native or virtual) is available:

• Host to host process-level throughput/latency (intra-node and inter-node)

Optionally, VMTP can extract automatically CPU usage from all native hosts in the cloud during the throughput tests, provided the Ganglia monitoring service (gmond) is installed and enabled on those hosts.

For VM-related flows, VMTP will automatically create the necessary OpenStack resources (router, networks, subnets, key pairs, security groups, test VMs) using the public OpenStack API, install the test tools then orchestrate them to gather the throughput measurements then cleanup all related resources before exiting.

See the usage page for the description of all the command line arguments supported by VMTP.

Online Documentation

The complete documentation for VMTP including installation and usage guide is available at http://vmtp.readthedocs.io/en/latest

Pre-requisite

VMTP runs on any Python 2.X envirnment (validated on Linux and MacOSX).

Sample Results Output

VMTP will display the results to stdout with the following data:

Summary of results
==================
Total Scenarios:   22
Passed Scenarios:  17 [100.00%]
Failed Scenarios:  0 [0.00%]
Skipped Scenarios: 5
+----------+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Scenario | Scenario Name                                    | Functional Status | Data                                                                             |
+----------+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 1.1      | Same Network, Fixed IP, Intra-node, TCP          | PASSED            | {'tp_kbps': '19262752', 'rtt_ms': '0.38'}                                        |
| 1.2      | Same Network, Fixed IP, Intra-node, UDP          | PASSED            | {128: {'tp_kbps': 243360, 'loss_rate': 0.0}, 1024: {'tp_kbps': 1790414,          |
|          |                                                  |                   | 'loss_rate': 0.0}, 8192: {'tp_kbps': 9599648, 'loss_rate': 0.0}}                 |
| 1.3      | Same Network, Fixed IP, Intra-node, ICMP         | PASSED            | {'rtt_avg_ms': '0.385', 'rtt_min_ms': '0.237', 'rtt_max_ms': '0.688',            |
|          |                                                  |                   | 'rtt_stddev': '0.156'}                                                           |
| 2.1      | Same Network, Fixed IP, Inter-node, TCP          | PASSED            | {'tp_kbps': '5987943', 'rtt_ms': '0.49'}                                         |
| 2.2      | Same Network, Fixed IP, Inter-node, UDP          | PASSED            | {128: {'tp_kbps': 240518, 'loss_rate': 0.0}, 1024: {'tp_kbps': 1804851,          |
|          |                                                  |                   | 'loss_rate': 0.0}, 8192: {'tp_kbps': 3074557, 'loss_rate': 0.04}}                |
| 2.3      | Same Network, Fixed IP, Inter-node, ICMP         | PASSED            | {'rtt_avg_ms': '0.601', 'rtt_min_ms': '0.507', 'rtt_max_ms': '0.846',            |
|          |                                                  |                   | 'rtt_stddev': '0.126'}                                                           |
| 3.1      | Different Network, Fixed IP, Intra-node, TCP     | PASSED            | {'tp_kbps': '7308597', 'rtt_ms': '0.68'}                                         |
| 3.2      | Different Network, Fixed IP, Intra-node, UDP     | PASSED            | {128: {'tp_kbps': 194764, 'loss_rate': 4.88}, 1024: {'tp_kbps': 1587951,         |
|          |                                                  |                   | 'loss_rate': 3.39}, 8192: {'tp_kbps': 2666969, 'loss_rate': 0.0}}                |
| 3.3      | Different Network, Fixed IP, Intra-node, ICMP    | PASSED            | {'rtt_avg_ms': '0.689', 'rtt_min_ms': '0.638', 'rtt_max_ms': '0.761',            |
|          |                                                  |                   | 'rtt_stddev': '0.053'}                                                           |
| 4.1      | Different Network, Fixed IP, Inter-node, TCP     | PASSED            | {'tp_kbps': '8487326', 'rtt_ms': '0.713333'}                                     |
| 4.2      | Different Network, Fixed IP, Inter-node, UDP     | PASSED            | {128: {'tp_kbps': 200641, 'loss_rate': 0.0}, 1024: {'tp_kbps': 1198920,          |
|          |                                                  |                   | 'loss_rate': 30.54}, 8192: {'tp_kbps': 2657355, 'loss_rate': 0.0}}               |
| 4.3      | Different Network, Fixed IP, Inter-node, ICMP    | PASSED            | {'rtt_avg_ms': '0.710', 'rtt_min_ms': '0.674', 'rtt_max_ms': '0.729',            |
|          |                                                  |                   | 'rtt_stddev': '0.025'}                                                           |
| 5.1      | Different Network, Floating IP, Intra-node, TCP  | PASSED            | {'tp_kbps': '7462958', 'rtt_ms': '0.676667'}                                     |
| 5.2      | Different Network, Floating IP, Intra-node, UDP  | PASSED            | {128: {'tp_kbps': 188808, 'loss_rate': 2.34}, 1024: {'tp_kbps': 1513660,         |
|          |                                                  |                   | 'loss_rate': 0.0}, 8192: {'tp_kbps': 2586232, 'loss_rate': 0.0}}                 |
| 5.3      | Different Network, Floating IP, Intra-node, ICMP | PASSED            | {'rtt_avg_ms': '0.592', 'rtt_min_ms': '0.477', 'rtt_max_ms': '0.663',            |
|          |                                                  |                   | 'rtt_stddev': '0.065'}                                                           |
| 6.1      | Different Network, Floating IP, Inter-node, TCP  | PASSED            | {'tp_kbps': '8486828', 'rtt_ms': '0.663333'}                                     |
| 6.2      | Different Network, Floating IP, Inter-node, UDP  | PASSED            | {128: {'tp_kbps': 190434, 'loss_rate': 0.12}, 1024: {'tp_kbps': 1518300,         |
|          |                                                  |                   | 'loss_rate': 0.0}, 8192: {'tp_kbps': 2569370, 'loss_rate': 0.0}}                 |
| 6.3      | Different Network, Floating IP, Inter-node, ICMP | PASSED            | {'rtt_avg_ms': '0.674', 'rtt_min_ms': '0.657', 'rtt_max_ms': '0.702',            |
|          |                                                  |                   | 'rtt_stddev': '0.015'}                                                           |
| 7.1      | Native Throughput, TCP                           | SKIPPED           | {}                                                                               |
| 7.2      | Native Throughput, UDP                           | SKIPPED           | {}                                                                               |
| 7.3      | Native Throughput, ICMP                          | SKIPPED           | {}                                                                               |
| 8.1      | VM to Host Uploading                             | SKIPPED           | {}                                                                               |
| 8.2      | VM to Host Downloading                           | SKIPPED           | {}                                                                               |
+----------+--------------------------------------------------+-------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Detailed results can also be stored in a file in JSON format using the –json command line argument and/or stored directly into a MongoDB server. See example.json for an example JSON file that is generated by VMTP.

The packaged python tool genchart.py can be used to generate from the JSON result files column charts in HTML format visible from any browser.

Example of column chart generated by genchart.py:

Limitations and Caveats

VMTP only measures performance for single-flows at the socket/TCP/UDP level (in a VM or natively). Measured numbers therefore reflect what most applications will see.

It is not designed to measure driver level data path performance from inside a VM (such as bypassing the kernel TCP stack and write directly to virtio), there are better tools that can address this type of mesurement.

VMTP ships with pre-built binaries that will run on most x86_64 Linux VMs (which is the vast majority of copute nodes) - see Licensing. Running VMTP on compute nodes that have a different CPU architecture will require rebuilding these binaries for the proper target.

Licensing

VMTP is licensed under Apache License 2.0 and comes packaged with the following Linux x86_64 binaries for convenience:

• iperf 2.0.5: BSD License (https://iperf.fr/license.html, built from source code: https://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf/files/iperf-2.0.5.tar.gz/download)

• nuttcp: GPL v2 License (http://nuttcp.net/nuttcp/beta/LICENSE, built from source code: http://nuttcp.net/nuttcp/beta/nuttcp-7.3.2.c)

Redistribution of nuttcp and iperf is governed by their respective licenses. Please make sure you read and understand each one before further redistributing VMTP downstream.

Links

• Documentation: http://vmtp.readthedocs.io/en/latest

• Source: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/vmtp

• Supports/Bugs: https://launchpad.net/vmtp

• Mailing List: vmtp-core@lists.launchpad.net