Danube

This document provides the release notes for Danube of QTIP.

Version history

Date Ver. Author Comment
2017-03-30 Danube 1.0 Yujun Zhang  
2017-05-04 Danube 2.0 Yujun Zhang  
2017-07-14 Danube 3.0 Yujun Zhang  

Important notes

QTIP is totally reworked in Danube release. The legacy benchmarks released in Brahmaputra (compute, network and storage) are deprecated.

Summary

QTIP Danube release introduces QPI, a.k.a. QTIP Performance Index, which is calculated from metrics collected in performance tests.

A PoC of compute performance benchmark plan is provided as a sample use case.

Available benchmark plans can be listed, shown and executed from command line or over API.

Release Data

Project QTIP
Repo/commit-ID qtip/danube.3.0
Release designation Tag update only
Release date 2017-07-14
Purpose of the delivery OPNFV quality assurance

Version change

New in Danube 3.0

  • No change in QTIP itself
  • Validated on OPNFV Danube latest release

New in Danube 2.0

  • Bug fix in regex of ssl

Module version changes

The following Python packages are used in this release:

ansible==2.1.2.0
click==6.7
connexion==1.1.5
Jinja2==2.9.5
numpy==1.12.1
paramiko==2.1.2
pbr==2.0.0
prettytable==0.7.2
six==1.10.0
PyYAML==3.12

It is considered as a baseline for future releases.

Reason for version

Features additions

  • Compute QPI (QTIP Performance Index) specification and benchmarking plan
  • Command line interface
  • API server

Framework evolution

The following components are implemented and integrated

  • Native runner
  • File loader
  • Ansible driver
  • Logfile collector
  • Grep parser
  • Console reporter

See JIRA for full change log

Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds

Limitations

  • The compute benchmark plan is hard coded in native runner
  • Baseline for Compute QPI is not created yet, therefore scores are not available

Known issues

  • QTIP-230 - logger warns about socket /dev/log when running in container

Test Result

QTIP has undergone QA test runs with the following results:

TEST-SUITES Results:
qtip-verify-danube 94/94 passed
qtip-os-nosdn-kvm-ha-zte-pod3-daily-danube passed
qtip-os-nosdn-nofeature-ha-zte-pod3-daily-danube passed
qtip-os-odl_l2-nofeature-ha-zte-pod1-daily-danube passed