Target Audience: Those who are new to VSPERF and would like to try it out locally.

Experimenting with Single System:

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

1. OS: Linux (ex: centos)
2. Hypervisor: KVM/Qemu
3. RAM:  8-16GB
4. 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)
5. 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)

Experimenting with Two 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.)The requirements depends on mainly two things (a) Topology and the (b) Mode. In this page, we will describe the minimal requirements considering both the topology and the mode.