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If you are attending a VSPERF-training session (ex: IEEE NFVSDN tutorial), kindly download the necessary software and tools (VSPERF, VNFs, and preferred traffic-generator), before the training. The details of these are provided below.

Option-1: Experimenting VSPERF with Oracle Virtualbox:

You would need two VMs in this scenario. Figure below shows the setup.

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Download the latest T-Rex: wget --no-cache http://trex-tgn.cisco.com/trex/release/latest. to the home (/home/trex) folder.

Step-6: Running Tests

Option-2: Experimenting with Single Physical System:

In this scenario, both the DUT (vswitch with/without VNFs) and the Traffic-Generator run on same System.

1. vsperf distribution: Downloaded from here
2. OS: Linux (ex: centos, fedora, suse, ubuntu, RHEL)
3. Hypervisor: Qemu (> 2.3)
4. RAM:  8-16GB
5. TGen-VM: TRex-VM (VSPERF includes this image as part of its artifacts - https://artifacts.opnfv.org/vswitchperf/vnf/vloop-vnf-ubuntu-16.04_trex_20180209.qcow2)
6. VNF: vloop-VNF (VSPERF includes this image as part of its artifacts - http://artifacts.opnfv.org/vswitchperf/vnf/vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160823.qcow2)

Option-3: Experimenting with Two Physical Systems

In this scenario, DUT runs on first system and the Traffic-generator runs on a different system. (Note: The second system could be a hardware traffic-generator - Spirent, Ixia, Xena, etc.)

System-1:

1. vsperf distribution: Downloaded from here
2. OS: Linux (ex: centos, fedora, suse, ubuntu, RHEL)
3. Hypervisor: Qemu (> 2.3)
4. RAM:  8-16GB
5. NICs: 2 for data-traffic
6. VNF: vloop-VNF (VSPERF includes this image as part of its artifacts - http://artifacts.opnfv.org/vswitchperf/vnf/vloop-vnf-ubuntu-14.04_20160823.qcow2)

System-2:

There are multiple options here - user can choose any one of the following

1. Hardware Traffic Generator: Ixia, Spirent, Xena, Etc.
2. T-Rex: Instructions to install can be found here
3. Moongen: Instructions to install can be found here
4. NICs: 2 for data-traffic.