Learn about the upcoming NVMe Plugfest in this webinar and hear about the latest test updates for NVMe and NVMe-oF products and how to get your SSD, NVMe-oF, and NVMe-MI products on the NVMe Integrators List. Products are tested for conformance to the NVMe standard. Check out our website for more info www.iol.unh.edu
IOL INTERACT® (http://bit.ly/IOLINTERACT) is a software tool designed for SSD integrators, SSD controllers and System Integrators to automate testing for NVMe SSD products. The latest version of IOL INTERACT has many new features including support for some NVMe version 1.4 features. Learn about key areas for NVMe conformance testing for SSD.
Check out our latest NVMe webinar outlining the latest test requirements for all NVMe™ and NVMe-oF™ products including the availability of NVMe-oF for TCP transports, and IOL INTERACT test tool updates for TCP testing. All great information to help get your products on the NVMe Integrators List.
More info http://bit.ly/IOLtestsen -- Test Sentinel software runs automated testing in-house for DSL, Gfast, and Wireless including Broadband Forum’s ID337, ID337i2, TR-114, TR-100, and TR-067 test plans before applying for the Broadband Forum Gfast Certification Program.
Join the UNH-IOL as we walk thru which tests are mandatory for Plugfest #9 based on testing from our previous Plugfest (#8). We will review for both NVMe drives and NVMe-oF targets. In addition, we will walk thru the new tests that have been added for NVMe v1.3 features.
System reliability is one of most important features for the Network service. With the development of visualized network functions, system reliability and stability becomes more complex than before. Tes ting and verifying OPNFV infrastructure for tolerating the faults and failures is a great challenge. To address this challenge, the presentation presents a test framework which covers the means and types of faults injection as well as the implement of fault injection tools. Some test cases are shown to validate the framework.
Extended QA testing to enhance productivity of a leading networking solution ...Veryx Technologies
This case study showcase show Veryx Technologies enabled a global industrial ethernet solution provider to meet their targets by providing extended QA testing
The merge window is a period of time directly after a software release when many patches are merged. This allows patches a long time to be scrutinized and tested before the next release. During the merge window, which typically lasts two weeks for the Linux kernel, maintainers focus on quickly reviewing and merging new patches, while testing of the new patches occurs in the following release candidates period. Aligning development work with merge windows helps ensure patches are reviewed and integrated efficiently.
Nagesh Kalal has over 8 years of experience in software testing, including automation testing on Nutanix storage clusters, Cisco Nexus switches, and embedded software. He has expertise in test planning, execution, defect tracking, and automation using tools like Selenium, Python, and TCL scripting. Currently he is leading a team performing automation testing on Cisco Nexus switches using the PyATS framework.
IOL INTERACT® (http://bit.ly/IOLINTERACT) is a software tool designed for SSD integrators, SSD controllers and System Integrators to automate testing for NVMe SSD products. The latest version of IOL INTERACT has many new features including support for some NVMe version 1.4 features. Learn about key areas for NVMe conformance testing for SSD.
Check out our latest NVMe webinar outlining the latest test requirements for all NVMe™ and NVMe-oF™ products including the availability of NVMe-oF for TCP transports, and IOL INTERACT test tool updates for TCP testing. All great information to help get your products on the NVMe Integrators List.
More info http://bit.ly/IOLtestsen -- Test Sentinel software runs automated testing in-house for DSL, Gfast, and Wireless including Broadband Forum’s ID337, ID337i2, TR-114, TR-100, and TR-067 test plans before applying for the Broadband Forum Gfast Certification Program.
Join the UNH-IOL as we walk thru which tests are mandatory for Plugfest #9 based on testing from our previous Plugfest (#8). We will review for both NVMe drives and NVMe-oF targets. In addition, we will walk thru the new tests that have been added for NVMe v1.3 features.
System reliability is one of most important features for the Network service. With the development of visualized network functions, system reliability and stability becomes more complex than before. Tes ting and verifying OPNFV infrastructure for tolerating the faults and failures is a great challenge. To address this challenge, the presentation presents a test framework which covers the means and types of faults injection as well as the implement of fault injection tools. Some test cases are shown to validate the framework.
Extended QA testing to enhance productivity of a leading networking solution ...Veryx Technologies
This case study showcase show Veryx Technologies enabled a global industrial ethernet solution provider to meet their targets by providing extended QA testing
The merge window is a period of time directly after a software release when many patches are merged. This allows patches a long time to be scrutinized and tested before the next release. During the merge window, which typically lasts two weeks for the Linux kernel, maintainers focus on quickly reviewing and merging new patches, while testing of the new patches occurs in the following release candidates period. Aligning development work with merge windows helps ensure patches are reviewed and integrated efficiently.
Nagesh Kalal has over 8 years of experience in software testing, including automation testing on Nutanix storage clusters, Cisco Nexus switches, and embedded software. He has expertise in test planning, execution, defect tracking, and automation using tools like Selenium, Python, and TCL scripting. Currently he is leading a team performing automation testing on Cisco Nexus switches using the PyATS framework.
Challenges in testing for composite vim platformsOPNFV
Jose Lausuch, Ericsson
Can I use OPNFV test frameworks on non-OPNFV deployments?
What are the limitations they have? What if I have a different VIM than OpenStack? What about K8? We need solutions that address next generation telco needs.
MIPI DevCon 2016: Key Learnings in Creating the UFS Compliance Test ProgramMIPI Alliance
Of the many reasons driving development of standards, two of the most important are: 1) Enabling development of distinct yet "plug compatible" implementations; and 2) Encapsulating functionality to create a "building block" that can be used in a wide variety of systems. These two goals can conflict with each other in unexpected ways as the types of systems using the standard evolve. In this presentation, Perry Keller of the UFSA examines the UFSA's learnings in preparing to support logo certification testing of the recently adopted UFS card standard.
OPNFV Arno Installation and Validation Walk ThroughOPNFV
This document provides a walk-through of installing and validating the OPNFV Arno release using Fuel and Foreman on Dell hardware. It describes setting up two PODs with Fuel deploying one for OpenStack+ODL and Foreman deploying the other. The steps covered include fetching ISO files, configuring networks, deploying PODs using the GUI, validating with function tests like Rally and Tempest.
This document provides a summary of Narottam Pattanayak's work experience and qualifications. He has over 7 years of experience in network protocol testing and QA, including testing networking protocols like Wi-Fi, Powerline, TCP/IP, and storage protocols. His most recent role is as a Senior QA Engineer at Ixia Technologies where he has led testing on several IxLoad releases. He holds an MTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering and has expertise in networking protocols, Linux, scripting languages, and traffic generation tools.
Learn about TAP Checker, a software tool for BSDL verification and automated validation of chip-level JTAG / boundary-scan implementations;
support for multi-chip modules; IEEE 1149.1 and IEEE 1149.6 compliant; VHDL, VERILOG, and STIL output;
This document discusses data plane acceleration for network functions virtualization (NFV). It proposes a framework called DPACC that would provide a standard way for virtualized network functions (VNFs) to utilize hardware and software acceleration on servers. The framework includes a software acceleration layer (SAL) that abstracts the acceleration mechanisms and allows orchestration of resources. An early project plan outlines specifying use cases and requirements in 2015 and providing an open source implementation and test tools by late 2015. The goals are to enable VNF portability across servers and accelerators using common APIs. Examples show how acceleration could work for functions like cryptography. Related work would enhance VirtIO, the SAL, and OpenStack to support acceleration management and orchestration.
MIPI DevCon 2016: Using MIPI Conformance Test Suites for Pre-Silicon Verifica...MIPI Alliance
MIPI Alliance conformance test suites provide a valuable set of tools improving interoperability of MIPI specification-based products. While the main purpose of conformance test suites is to verify conformance of these products at post-silicon stages, a significant number of these tests can be used in pre-silicon verification of MIPI-based designs in order to improve the product quality and increase confidence for being spec-conformant in very early design stage. This presentation by Ofir Michaeli of Cadence Design Systems focuses on the following topics: selection of appropriate CTS tests for pre-silicon verification, integrating CTS tests into the verification plan, and modification of the verification test bench to accommodate CTS tests. These topics are explained by the examples of integration of DSI, D-PHY and C-PHY conformance test suites into verification plans and would be relevant for every engineer who designs or verifies MIPI-based interfaces.
Summit 16: How to Do a Pre-deployment NFVI Validation Quickly and Efficiently?OPNFV
Implementing a real NFV solution is difficult, so we have the OPNFV platform. Building and deploying OPNFV platform is difficult, so we have the powerful installers. Now verifying the deployment platform suitable for VNFs is also difficult: different hardware/components/installers/SDN controllers/VNFs, what do we have? This presentation will first introduce the methodology of pre-deployment validation of NFVI which defined in NFV ISG standard, then show how to utilize yardstick's generic test suites to examine basic infrastructure metrics that reflecting the specific VNF type requirements, and last explain how to analyze the benchmarking data by using yardstick dashboard. A demo will also be provided to show the whole validation process clearly.
Functional testing is key to validate the installation and the correct behavior of the OPNFV platform. This session will cover how to prepare and execute the Functest framework over a fresh installed Arno and possibly some spoiler of the second release. It will also walk though the different tools used in Arno: Rally, Tempest, vPing and Robot.
This document discusses how CollabNet implemented a continuous integration (CI) strategy to improve quality and reduce defects. It outlines the problems they were facing with testing and quality. It then details how they built out their CI infrastructure using tools like Jenkins, implemented an automated testing strategy across various stages, and saw measurable improvements like reduced customer defects over time. It concludes with discussing measuring and maturing their CI strategy over time.
Review of current approaches to testing software.
Goal is to promote understanding of the need for designing blended approaches, where different techniques are used for different purposes.
To share the idea that each software ecosystem has unique set of concerns that can only be addressed effectively by mixing up some of the presented techniques in balanced proportions.
To understand, at times when highly heterogeneous distributed software architectures become commodity, it is important to re-define concepts such as quality, correctness and robustness to prevent loosing predictability of system behavior.
OPNFV Open Source Carrier Networking Closing Panel at ONS 2015. Featuring:
Heather Kirksey, OPNFV
Chris Donley, CableLabs
Ashiq Khan, NTT DOCOMO
Dirk Kutscher, NEC
NFV solutions that pull from open source projects such as OPNFV, OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and others must be integrated and tested in an environment that fully supports the performance and availability requirements of service provider networks. We’ll show OPNFV performs open source NFV testing, including: methodology; mapping to ETSI NFV use-case/s; open source project integration; testing dashboards; Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD); and testing acceleration. We’ll provide an overview of the OPNFV Pharos Community Test Lab infrastructure and the new Pharos Lab-as-a-Service to run a test deploy of OPNFV and try it out on your own. We’ll also give an overview of how OPNFV is working together with OpenStack Community as part of its Cross Community CI (XCI) effort in order to provide means for OPNFV developers to work with OpenStack master branch, reduce the time it takes to develop new features and test them on OPNFV Infrastructure, and more.
Evolution of OPNFV CI System: What already exists and what can be introduced OPNFV
The document discusses the evolution of the OPNFV CI (continuous integration) system. It describes the current CI infrastructure including Jenkins for building and testing software projects continuously. It also identifies problems with the growing number of commits and authors. Potential tools that could be introduced include Zuul for scheduling jobs in parallel across dependencies, and Elasticsearch ELK stack for gathering, storing and visualizing system logs. The document proposes an evolved CI system architecture incorporating these tools along with GitHub mirroring, repositories for stable versions, Jenkins masters and slaves, log servers, and Puppet/Hiera for infrastructure management.
Swimming upstream: OPNFV Doctor project case studyOPNFV
Based on the lifecycle of the OPNFV Doctor project, this case study shows how operator requirements “on paper” have successfully been realized step-by-step and in close cooperation with upstream community projects into a mature fault management framework. A demo of the solution had been presented in a keynote at the last OpenStack Summit. The talk will describe how we have worked in the OPNFV Doctor project and will provide some lessons learned on this journey. With significant experience now of working OPNFV requirements upstream to OpenStack, we’ll share best practices for submitting contributions upstream, how to best communicate, and how to overcome the primary challenges.
Frank Brockners, OPNFV TSC member and distinguished engineer with Cisco, presented "Deploy it, test it, run your VNF" during the OPNFV mini-summit as part of the 2015 NFV World Congress.
Guide to genex assistant for lte update 2012-2-25Usman Ali
The document provides an overview and instructions for using Genex Assistant, a post-data collection analysis tool. It allows analyzing network performance metrics, locating problems, and generating reports. The summary installs the software, sets up a project to import data and parameters, analyzes the data, and generates a KPI report based on metrics like call setup success rate, throughput, and mobility.
Continuous Testing and New Tools for Automation - Presentation from StarWest ...Sauce Labs
Learn how you can create a full continuous integration solution entirely in the cloud using GitHub, Selenium, Sauce Labs, and Travis CI. Michael will show you how to take advantage of these hosted development resources to improve the velocity of your releases and provide the application quality your users demand. He will demonstrate how Sauce Labs can securely execute your Selenium tests in parallel and dramatically reduce the time required to run your critical integration and acceptance tests—so you can finally realize the promise of continuous delivery. www.saucelabs.com/signup/trial
Contributing your first change to OPNFV can be a confusing process. Where do I get the source code? How do I submit a patch? How do I get someone to merge my changes? We’ll help answer these questions and provide an overview of the tools our community uses to communicate, review, plan, and develop contributions. Then, attendees will learn how OPNFV conducts its release planning and execution and get an overview of the milestones, timeline, and process for each major release.
The UNH-IOL is launching new NVMe-oF testing services and an NVMe-oF integrators list to foster industry collaboration around NVMe-oF testing and certification. They will offer conformance and interoperability testing for NVMe-oF solutions to qualify products for the integrators list. Their goal is to build an extensive NVMe-oF testbed and help more solutions reach the market by addressing industry testing needs. They also train future engineers through hands-on experience with new technologies at their state-of-the-art facility.
Test and perspectives on nfvi from china unicom sdn nfv labOPNFV
Junjie Tong, China Unicom
This presentation explores our experience with the tests on NFVI in China Unicom's SDN/NFV lab.We have done the tests on both the hardware and VIM and discuss the lessones and painis about NFVI testing.We also discuss the sepcial requirements from NFV perspectives, what further improvements are needed for indusrty products and the working progress and plans on NFVI in China Unicom.
Challenges in testing for composite vim platformsOPNFV
Jose Lausuch, Ericsson
Can I use OPNFV test frameworks on non-OPNFV deployments?
What are the limitations they have? What if I have a different VIM than OpenStack? What about K8? We need solutions that address next generation telco needs.
MIPI DevCon 2016: Key Learnings in Creating the UFS Compliance Test ProgramMIPI Alliance
Of the many reasons driving development of standards, two of the most important are: 1) Enabling development of distinct yet "plug compatible" implementations; and 2) Encapsulating functionality to create a "building block" that can be used in a wide variety of systems. These two goals can conflict with each other in unexpected ways as the types of systems using the standard evolve. In this presentation, Perry Keller of the UFSA examines the UFSA's learnings in preparing to support logo certification testing of the recently adopted UFS card standard.
OPNFV Arno Installation and Validation Walk ThroughOPNFV
This document provides a walk-through of installing and validating the OPNFV Arno release using Fuel and Foreman on Dell hardware. It describes setting up two PODs with Fuel deploying one for OpenStack+ODL and Foreman deploying the other. The steps covered include fetching ISO files, configuring networks, deploying PODs using the GUI, validating with function tests like Rally and Tempest.
This document provides a summary of Narottam Pattanayak's work experience and qualifications. He has over 7 years of experience in network protocol testing and QA, including testing networking protocols like Wi-Fi, Powerline, TCP/IP, and storage protocols. His most recent role is as a Senior QA Engineer at Ixia Technologies where he has led testing on several IxLoad releases. He holds an MTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering and has expertise in networking protocols, Linux, scripting languages, and traffic generation tools.
Learn about TAP Checker, a software tool for BSDL verification and automated validation of chip-level JTAG / boundary-scan implementations;
support for multi-chip modules; IEEE 1149.1 and IEEE 1149.6 compliant; VHDL, VERILOG, and STIL output;
This document discusses data plane acceleration for network functions virtualization (NFV). It proposes a framework called DPACC that would provide a standard way for virtualized network functions (VNFs) to utilize hardware and software acceleration on servers. The framework includes a software acceleration layer (SAL) that abstracts the acceleration mechanisms and allows orchestration of resources. An early project plan outlines specifying use cases and requirements in 2015 and providing an open source implementation and test tools by late 2015. The goals are to enable VNF portability across servers and accelerators using common APIs. Examples show how acceleration could work for functions like cryptography. Related work would enhance VirtIO, the SAL, and OpenStack to support acceleration management and orchestration.
MIPI DevCon 2016: Using MIPI Conformance Test Suites for Pre-Silicon Verifica...MIPI Alliance
MIPI Alliance conformance test suites provide a valuable set of tools improving interoperability of MIPI specification-based products. While the main purpose of conformance test suites is to verify conformance of these products at post-silicon stages, a significant number of these tests can be used in pre-silicon verification of MIPI-based designs in order to improve the product quality and increase confidence for being spec-conformant in very early design stage. This presentation by Ofir Michaeli of Cadence Design Systems focuses on the following topics: selection of appropriate CTS tests for pre-silicon verification, integrating CTS tests into the verification plan, and modification of the verification test bench to accommodate CTS tests. These topics are explained by the examples of integration of DSI, D-PHY and C-PHY conformance test suites into verification plans and would be relevant for every engineer who designs or verifies MIPI-based interfaces.
Summit 16: How to Do a Pre-deployment NFVI Validation Quickly and Efficiently?OPNFV
Implementing a real NFV solution is difficult, so we have the OPNFV platform. Building and deploying OPNFV platform is difficult, so we have the powerful installers. Now verifying the deployment platform suitable for VNFs is also difficult: different hardware/components/installers/SDN controllers/VNFs, what do we have? This presentation will first introduce the methodology of pre-deployment validation of NFVI which defined in NFV ISG standard, then show how to utilize yardstick's generic test suites to examine basic infrastructure metrics that reflecting the specific VNF type requirements, and last explain how to analyze the benchmarking data by using yardstick dashboard. A demo will also be provided to show the whole validation process clearly.
Functional testing is key to validate the installation and the correct behavior of the OPNFV platform. This session will cover how to prepare and execute the Functest framework over a fresh installed Arno and possibly some spoiler of the second release. It will also walk though the different tools used in Arno: Rally, Tempest, vPing and Robot.
This document discusses how CollabNet implemented a continuous integration (CI) strategy to improve quality and reduce defects. It outlines the problems they were facing with testing and quality. It then details how they built out their CI infrastructure using tools like Jenkins, implemented an automated testing strategy across various stages, and saw measurable improvements like reduced customer defects over time. It concludes with discussing measuring and maturing their CI strategy over time.
Review of current approaches to testing software.
Goal is to promote understanding of the need for designing blended approaches, where different techniques are used for different purposes.
To share the idea that each software ecosystem has unique set of concerns that can only be addressed effectively by mixing up some of the presented techniques in balanced proportions.
To understand, at times when highly heterogeneous distributed software architectures become commodity, it is important to re-define concepts such as quality, correctness and robustness to prevent loosing predictability of system behavior.
OPNFV Open Source Carrier Networking Closing Panel at ONS 2015. Featuring:
Heather Kirksey, OPNFV
Chris Donley, CableLabs
Ashiq Khan, NTT DOCOMO
Dirk Kutscher, NEC
NFV solutions that pull from open source projects such as OPNFV, OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and others must be integrated and tested in an environment that fully supports the performance and availability requirements of service provider networks. We’ll show OPNFV performs open source NFV testing, including: methodology; mapping to ETSI NFV use-case/s; open source project integration; testing dashboards; Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD); and testing acceleration. We’ll provide an overview of the OPNFV Pharos Community Test Lab infrastructure and the new Pharos Lab-as-a-Service to run a test deploy of OPNFV and try it out on your own. We’ll also give an overview of how OPNFV is working together with OpenStack Community as part of its Cross Community CI (XCI) effort in order to provide means for OPNFV developers to work with OpenStack master branch, reduce the time it takes to develop new features and test them on OPNFV Infrastructure, and more.
Evolution of OPNFV CI System: What already exists and what can be introduced OPNFV
The document discusses the evolution of the OPNFV CI (continuous integration) system. It describes the current CI infrastructure including Jenkins for building and testing software projects continuously. It also identifies problems with the growing number of commits and authors. Potential tools that could be introduced include Zuul for scheduling jobs in parallel across dependencies, and Elasticsearch ELK stack for gathering, storing and visualizing system logs. The document proposes an evolved CI system architecture incorporating these tools along with GitHub mirroring, repositories for stable versions, Jenkins masters and slaves, log servers, and Puppet/Hiera for infrastructure management.
Swimming upstream: OPNFV Doctor project case studyOPNFV
Based on the lifecycle of the OPNFV Doctor project, this case study shows how operator requirements “on paper” have successfully been realized step-by-step and in close cooperation with upstream community projects into a mature fault management framework. A demo of the solution had been presented in a keynote at the last OpenStack Summit. The talk will describe how we have worked in the OPNFV Doctor project and will provide some lessons learned on this journey. With significant experience now of working OPNFV requirements upstream to OpenStack, we’ll share best practices for submitting contributions upstream, how to best communicate, and how to overcome the primary challenges.
Frank Brockners, OPNFV TSC member and distinguished engineer with Cisco, presented "Deploy it, test it, run your VNF" during the OPNFV mini-summit as part of the 2015 NFV World Congress.
Guide to genex assistant for lte update 2012-2-25Usman Ali
The document provides an overview and instructions for using Genex Assistant, a post-data collection analysis tool. It allows analyzing network performance metrics, locating problems, and generating reports. The summary installs the software, sets up a project to import data and parameters, analyzes the data, and generates a KPI report based on metrics like call setup success rate, throughput, and mobility.
Continuous Testing and New Tools for Automation - Presentation from StarWest ...Sauce Labs
Learn how you can create a full continuous integration solution entirely in the cloud using GitHub, Selenium, Sauce Labs, and Travis CI. Michael will show you how to take advantage of these hosted development resources to improve the velocity of your releases and provide the application quality your users demand. He will demonstrate how Sauce Labs can securely execute your Selenium tests in parallel and dramatically reduce the time required to run your critical integration and acceptance tests—so you can finally realize the promise of continuous delivery. www.saucelabs.com/signup/trial
Contributing your first change to OPNFV can be a confusing process. Where do I get the source code? How do I submit a patch? How do I get someone to merge my changes? We’ll help answer these questions and provide an overview of the tools our community uses to communicate, review, plan, and develop contributions. Then, attendees will learn how OPNFV conducts its release planning and execution and get an overview of the milestones, timeline, and process for each major release.
The UNH-IOL is launching new NVMe-oF testing services and an NVMe-oF integrators list to foster industry collaboration around NVMe-oF testing and certification. They will offer conformance and interoperability testing for NVMe-oF solutions to qualify products for the integrators list. Their goal is to build an extensive NVMe-oF testbed and help more solutions reach the market by addressing industry testing needs. They also train future engineers through hands-on experience with new technologies at their state-of-the-art facility.
Test and perspectives on nfvi from china unicom sdn nfv labOPNFV
Junjie Tong, China Unicom
This presentation explores our experience with the tests on NFVI in China Unicom's SDN/NFV lab.We have done the tests on both the hardware and VIM and discuss the lessones and painis about NFVI testing.We also discuss the sepcial requirements from NFV perspectives, what further improvements are needed for indusrty products and the working progress and plans on NFVI in China Unicom.
Demo how to efficiently evaluate nf-vi performance by leveraging opnfv testi...OPNFV
Liang Gao, Huawei, Trevor Cooper, Intel
NFV environments are highly flexible and this introduces unique challenges for testing performance of NFVI and Network Services. This presentation introduces OPNFV performance test projects and explains their role as part of the testing ecosystem. Examples from three performance testing categories will be demonstrated showing test results and their interpretation. Test cases discussed will include data-path performance, live migration performance and storage performance.
Use EPA for NFV & Test with OPNVF* Yardstick*Michelle Holley
The audience will build and deploy an OPNFV Yardstick in a Docker container and run it against a live OpenStack installation. They will then run it again, against an EPA-enabled version to see the differences. Aspects of Yardstick, NFV usage, EPA and upcoming developments will be discussed.
About the speaker: Jim Chamings is a Sr. Software Engineer at Intel, working in the Datacenter Scale Engineering team. His focus is on enabling Cloud and SDN/NFV developers to get the maximum value out of their data centers.
Summit 16: The Hitchhiker/Hacker's Guide to NFV BenchmarkingOPNFV
The document summarizes benchmarking methodologies and tools for network function virtualization (NFV). It discusses standards from groups like ETSI and IETF, as well as open source projects from OPNFV. Traditional approaches to benchmarking physical network devices need to evolve to address virtual network functions (VNFs) and their supporting infrastructure. New methods are needed to test virtual switches, controllers, and other infrastructure components in NFV environments.
This webinar will help understand our upcoming NVMe Plugfest being held May 22-25th. Learn about the new test requirements, test tools and how to prepare.
Challenge in asia region connecting each testbed and poc of distributed nfv ...OPNFV
Shuya Nakama, Okinawa Open Laboratory / NEC Solution Innovators, Eric Chang, Institute for Information Industry, Hideyasu Hayashi, Okinawa Open Laboratory and NEC Solution Innovators, Torii Takashi, NEC Corporation and Okinawa Open Laboratory
There are many countries in Asia region those have the motivation to innovate their telecom system and educate new technologies to young engineers. It is important how to encourage and involve these countries to OPNFV communities, and also educate to contribute to open source activities.
In these session, we will introduce our trial to the issue. Okinawa Open Laboratories (OOL) in Japan and Institute for Information Industry (III) in Taiwan, have been doing joint research activities in these years about SDN/NFV area, and this year, we have connected each testbed using OPNFV. Over the distributed testbed, we have started our POC of NFV use cases such as vEPC, vCPE etc. We also have communication with several research and academic organization in Asia region, so we would like to connect each country’s testbed and expand our testbed to Asia region.
There are many challenges, and we have learned from our experience, so in the session we will share the lessons learned from our trial. That will be good example for the whole community, and help progressing collaboration of global eco system.
Software Defined Networking/Openflow: A path to Programmable NetworksMyNOG
(1) The document discusses software defined networking (SDN) and OpenFlow, introducing key concepts like separating the control plane from the data plane, using OpenFlow to program the flow table of OpenFlow-enabled switches from a central controller. (2) It explores SDN use cases like network virtualization for multi-tenancy in hyper-scale data centers and flow management in metro/WAN networks using OpenFlow. (3) The SDN architecture abstracts the physical network through the controller to support network programmability and flexibility through virtualization and services.
The document discusses the EOSC Test Suite, which provides automated testing of cloud services for research. It outlines the timeline and context of the Test Suite, describing how it deploys scientific workloads and containerized tests across heterogeneous cloud platforms. The document also details the process for including new tests in the Test Suite, lists examples of deployments that have been run, and discusses the benefits of the Test Suite for validating cloud services and providing examples for researchers.
The DevOps methodology integrates development and operations so that system changes can get rolled out quickly without causing unplanned downtime. Industrial organizations that successfully implement DevOps will have a strong advantage, but knowing how to get started can be a real challenge.
Ildikó Váncsa, Chris Price, and Carsten Rossenhövel's presentation at the 2017 Open Networking Summit.
Communications service providers (CSPs) have a wide range of options when building virtualized services from the ground up including multiple choices for each functional block in the ETSI NFV reference architecture. CSPs prefer heterogeneous systems with building blocks from different vendors including open source software; for such deployments interoperability becomes a crucial requirement.
OpenStack, as the NFVI and VIM, serves as a widely used cloud platform for telecom and NFV use cases. As a common base, OpenStack offers the means for vendors and other open source projects to ease the interoperability challenge by providing a set of open API’s while focusing on upgradeability and backward compatibility.
However, when it comes to productization, interoperability testing often falls short and is sometimes left to the carrier as shown by the testing programs actively run by no fewer than 10 organizations today.
Join Carsten Rossenhövel from the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) and the rapporteur (editor) of ETSI’s NFV interoperability standards, Ildikó Váncsa from the OpenStack Foundation, and Chris Price, Ericsson and OpenStack board director to learn more about
The ETSI NFV Release 2 interoperability testing activities - standardization and recently completed ETSI PlugTest. Over 40 commercial and open source implementations were tested for interoperability, including 20 virtual network functions, 10 management and orchestration solutions and 10 NFV platforms.
The New IP Agency (NIA) interoperability testing campaigns of commercial NFV implementations executed by EANTC, focusing on results, lessons learned and recommendations.
How vendors and open source projects are stepping up to the challenge, realizing they must work together.
How to stay up-to-date with OpenStack releases and the community.
How to get involved to ensure you are aware of the latest developments and contribute what you need to OpenStack.
What will I learn from attending this session?
CSPs, open source projects and vendors alike will learn more about the recent ETSI PlugTest and NIA-commissioned interoperability testing, their results and how to architect full NFV solutions that will work together. Interoperability API tests and associated marks from OpenStack will be covered, as well as features to help stay current on OpenStack releases. Attendees will also hear from Ericsson about a vendor’s point of view, and how other projects such a OPNFV are evolving and expanding in scope to address this challenge.
This document discusses Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and its relationship to OpenStack. It provides an overview of NFV and the ETSI NFV specifications. It describes how ETSI NFV defines the virtualization of network functions and services. It also discusses how OpenStack addresses some of the infrastructure requirements for NFV such as multi-hypervisor support, different virtualization models, and exposing network and resource functions. The document presents examples of how NFV would virtualize a media resource function and related descriptors. It concludes by discussing the relationship between ETSI NFV and OpenStack/OPNFV and their collaborative efforts.
Webinar how to ensure sdn-nfv doesn't break your networkQualitest
This presentation is from the Webinar that QualiTest Group & QualiSystems hosted. The topic is how to ensure SDN/NFV does not break your network.
To read more about QualiTest's SDN/NFV Testing services click here - http://bit.ly/1DkOdmt
When to use Serverless? When to use Kubernetes?Niklas Heidloff
Slides of a session that I have given/will give at various developer conferences in H1 2018.
Niklas Heidloff
http://twitter.com/nheidloff
http://heidloff.net
Summary Article
http://heidloff.net/article/when-to-use-serverless-kubernetes
OpenWhisk
https://openwhisk.apache.org
https://github.com/ibm-functions/composer
https://github.com/nheidloff/openwhisk-debug-nodejs
Kubernetes
https://kubernetes.io
https://istio.io
IBM Cloud
http://ibm.biz/nheidloff
Abstract
There is a lot of debate whether to use Serverless or Kubernetes to build cloud-native apps. Both have their advantages and unique capabilities which developers should take into consideration when planning new projects. We will throw some light on the topics ease of use, maturity, types of scenarios, developer productivity and debugging, supported languages, DevOps and monitoring, performance, community and pricing. Cloud-native architectures shift the complexity from within an application to orchestrations of Microservices. Both Kubernetes and Serverless have their strengths which we will discuss. Besides the core development topics, developers should also understand operational aspects how complicated it is to maintain your own systems versus using managed platforms.
The document outlines the roadmap for ONOS, an open source SDN controller, in 2015. Key points include:
- Regular 3 month release cadence, with names like Avocet and Blackbird. Blackbird release in February 2015 will focus on stability, performance, and high availability.
- Areas of focus for 2015 include building out the distributed core using RAFT, improving the intent framework, adding southbound drivers, and exploring new use cases.
- Planned proof of concepts and deployments include AT&T use cases, NTT/NEC optical networking, an Internet2 deployment, and community labs.
- Goals for 2015 include expanding the developer community, influencing standards,
Building the carrier grade nfv infrastructureOPNFV
This document discusses an all-in-one rack-based solution for network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) that aims to address problems with traditional NFV deployments. It proposes a rack-based delivery approach with integrated computing, storage, networking hardware and software components including virtualized infrastructure manager, platform infrastructure manager and virtual network functions. The solution aims to reduce costs and complexity through pre-integration, standardized racks and centralized management. Future plans include further standardization, field testing and collaboration with industry partners.
Coexistence of Commercial Solutions with Open Source OPNFV PlatformOPNFV
Operators are faced with the task of choosing between a diverse set of commercial and noncommercial options for deploying NFV. This diversity includes multiple NFVi controllers, hypervisors, network controllers and storage virtualization technologies. This diversity is needed to meet the requirements of various VNF vendors and to meet operators’ stringent performance and support requirements. OPNFV is currently focused on open source solutions in a world of proprietary distributions, including VMware, Red Hat, Canonical and Mirantis. This talk will help OPNFV developers understand how to successfully navigate a world of hybrid solutions that contain a mixture of open source and commercial products.
perators are faced with the task of choosing between a diverse set of commercial and noncommercial options for deploying NFV. This diversity includes multiple NFVi controllers, hypervisors, network controllers and storage virtualization technologies. This diversity is needed to meet the requirements of various VNF vendors and to meet operators’ stringent performance and support requirements. OPNFV is currently focused on open source solutions in a world of proprietary distributions, including VMware, Red Hat, Canonical and Mirantis. This talk will help OPNFV developers understand how to successfully navigate a world of hybrid solutions that contain a mixture of open source and commercial products.
Learn more about the recent USGv6 Profile Update in this informational webinar. The revised profile aims to achieve several goals that include updating to the latest IPv6 standards, testing of products in “IPv6-only” environments, expanding to test IPv6 applications and services.
In this webinar Lincoln Lavoie, Senior Engineer, Broadband Technologies, details new and expanded WiFi testing and measurement capabilities being offered at the lab. Robust testing and measurement is key to the continuous improvement of broadband services, and WiFi performance has become critical to that equation.
Correct time and timing is one of the foundational elements in enabling the communication and orchestration of technologies for accurate and optimal wide area monitoring, protection and control (WAMPAC) in the power industry. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the International Electrical and Electronic Engineer-Standard Association (IEEE-SA) conducted a workshop to gather inputs from stakeholders to identify, analyze, and provide guidance on technologies, standards and methodologies for addressing the practical timing challenges that are currently being experienced in wide area time synchronization. This paper summarizes the NIST “Timing Challenges in the Smart Grid,” workshop in January 2017.
The document summarizes the results of a plugfest event co-sponsored by the Ethernet Alliance and NBASE-T Alliance to test 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T technology. A total of 15 companies participated in interoperability testing of their 2.5G and 5G Ethernet products at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab. The testing evaluated link establishment, frame error rates, downshifting capabilities and conformance to IEEE 802.3bz and NBASE-T specifications. The results demonstrated a high success rate for links and low error rates, validating multi-vendor interoperability of the new 2.5 and 5G Ethernet standards.
Universal Connectivity and Interoperability in the Open Eco System, and More will give an overview of the progress in open networking and a preview of next steps, including Open Network Install Environment (ONIE). The ONIE Logo Certification Program is now available.
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is announcing a new Internet of Things (IoT) IP Testing Service to foster industry-wide collaboration on IoT technologies. The service will provide extensive testing of IoT devices and their ability to interconnect through interoperability testing, IPv6 Ready IoT logo certification, and training students to work on IoT technologies.
The document provides an overview of the AVnu certification process and services offered by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). It describes the certification testing process, membership options for access to UNH-IOL's testing facilities and support, expectations for scheduling and conducting certification tests, and a brief overview of UNH-IOL.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
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My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
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Building Production Ready Search Pipelines with Spark and MilvusZilliz
Spark is the widely used ETL tool for processing, indexing and ingesting data to serving stack for search. Milvus is the production-ready open-source vector database. In this talk we will show how to use Spark to process unstructured data to extract vector representations, and push the vectors to Milvus vector database for search serving.
Infrastructure Challenges in Scaling RAG with Custom AI modelsZilliz
Building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems with open-source and custom AI models is a complex task. This talk explores the challenges in productionizing RAG systems, including retrieval performance, response synthesis, and evaluation. We’ll discuss how to leverage open-source models like text embeddings, language models, and custom fine-tuned models to enhance RAG performance. Additionally, we’ll cover how BentoML can help orchestrate and scale these AI components efficiently, ensuring seamless deployment and management of RAG systems in the cloud.
Cosa hanno in comune un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ?Speck&Tech
ABSTRACT: A prima vista, un mattoncino Lego e la backdoor XZ potrebbero avere in comune il fatto di essere entrambi blocchi di costruzione, o dipendenze di progetti creativi e software. La realtà è che un mattoncino Lego e il caso della backdoor XZ hanno molto di più di tutto ciò in comune.
Partecipate alla presentazione per immergervi in una storia di interoperabilità, standard e formati aperti, per poi discutere del ruolo importante che i contributori hanno in una comunità open source sostenibile.
BIO: Sostenitrice del software libero e dei formati standard e aperti. È stata un membro attivo dei progetti Fedora e openSUSE e ha co-fondato l'Associazione LibreItalia dove è stata coinvolta in diversi eventi, migrazioni e formazione relativi a LibreOffice. In precedenza ha lavorato a migrazioni e corsi di formazione su LibreOffice per diverse amministrazioni pubbliche e privati. Da gennaio 2020 lavora in SUSE come Software Release Engineer per Uyuni e SUSE Manager e quando non segue la sua passione per i computer e per Geeko coltiva la sua curiosità per l'astronomia (da cui deriva il suo nickname deneb_alpha).
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
“An Outlook of the Ongoing and Future Relationship between Blockchain Technologies and Process-aware Information Systems.” Invited talk at the joint workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS), co-located with with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), 3 June 2024, Limassol, Cyprus.
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HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
2. 2
The UNH InterOperability Laboratory
• The InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is located in Durham,
New Hampshire, USA. We are a non-profit, neutral, third-party test
laboratory dedicated to testing data networking technologies
through industry collaboration
• Our work force at the UNH-IOL consists of 100 undergrad and
graduate students and 20 full time staff
• The Datacenter Industry group includes: NVMe, NVMe-oF, Fibre
Channel, Ethernet Switching Protocols, and Open Networking
testing services supported by 3 full time staff and 16 undergrad
students
• NVMe Org has collaborated with UNH-IOL to manage the
Integrator’s List based Test Program on behalf of NVMe
Organization since 2012
3. Plugfest events held at the UNH-IOL in Durham, NH:
– NVMe-oF Novmeber 4 - 8, 2019
– NVMe-PCIe Novmeber 11 - 14, 2019
Testing will include conformance and interoperability
#12 test plans
Primary purpose is to achieve NVMe.orgs Integrator’s
List status for participating company products
NVMe-oF Other:
– NVMe-oF Large Builds if time permits
NVMe Plugfest #12
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4. ● Integrators List
● IOL INTERACT™ Information
● Test Plan #12 updates
● Futures
● Logistics
● Q&A
Agenda
4
6. NVMe Integrator’s List will accept:
• NVMe/PCIe drives, host platforms and switches
NVMe-MI Integrator’s List will accept:
• NVMe-MI drives
NVMe-oF Integrator’s List will accept:
• NVMe/RoCE initiators, targets, and switches
• NVMe/TCP initiators, targets, and switches
• NVMe/FC initiators, targets, and switches
NVMe Integrator’s List Products
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7. Requirements for NVMe/PCIe SSDs:
1. Pass NVMe Conformance Tests with PC and
LeCroy Edition of the v12.0 IOL INTERACT
test tool
2. Pass NVMe Interoperability: I/O Tests with
5/6 NVMe Host Platforms, 2 boot systems,
and Hot-plug for U.2 form factors only.
Requirements for NVMe/PCIe Host Platforms and PCIe
Switches:
1. Pass NVMe Interop Tests with 5 NVMe SSDs
Requirements for NVMe-MI SSDs:
1. Pass NVMe-MI Conformance Tests with
Teledyne LeCroy test tool
NVMe Integrator’s List Requirements
#12
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8. Requirements for Initiators/Hosts:
1. Pass NVMe-oF Interop Tests with 2 NVMe-oF Subsystem
Interop Partners
Requirements for Targets/NVMe-oF Subsystems:
1. Pass NVMe-oF Interop Tests with 2 NVMe-oF Host Interop
Partners
2. Pass NVMe Protocol Conformance tests
3. Run NVMe-oF Protocol Conformance tests (M)
Two Partners could be same HW with different OS/Driver.
NVMe-oF Integrator’s List
Requirements #12
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9. ● Integrator’s List
● IOL INTERACT™ Information
● Test Plan #12 updates
● Futures
● Logistics
● Q&A
Agenda
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10. • Step 1 : Obtain an IOL membership in either the NVMe
or NVMe-oF test groups
• Step 2: Fill out the IOL Licensing Agreement
• Step 3: Obtain access to the box utility to download
software
• Step 4: Obtain license from IOL staff
• Step 5: Follow the IOL-INTERACT ™ installation
documentation
• There is a demo version available
Bug Tracking Improvements
How do I get IOL-INTERACT ™ PC-
Edition?
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11. • When a support issue is reported, reporter will receive
an issue number, and estimated fix date based on next
release schedule
• Issues tracking internally using Jira and Git/BitBucket
for tracking and source control.
• The release notes will show what issues (with their
issue numbers) have been addressed in that release
• Enable user to make a connection to issue reported >
issue fixed
• 2 Major releases and monthly Minor IOL INTERACT™
releases
• Issues can be reported to the MyIOL:
https://www.iol.unh.edu/my/login
Bug Tracking ImprovementsSupport Issue Tracking Process
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12. Conformance ToolsNVMe/ NVMe-MI/ NVMe-oF Test Plans
NVMe Interop v12.0
NVMe-MI Specification Conformance v12.0
NVMe Base Specification Conformance v12.0
NVMe-oF Interop v12.0
NVMe-oF Specification Conformance v12.0
NVMe/PCIe SSDs and Hosts
and NVMe-MI SSDs
NVMe-oF Subsystems and Hosts
(ROCE, TCP, FC)
12
13. ● Integrator’s List
● IOL INTERACT™ Information
● Test Plan #12 updates
● Futures
● Logistics
● Q&A
Agenda
13
14. Conformance ToolsNVMe/PCIe Conformance Tools /
Plans
14
NVMe Base Specification
Conformance v12.0
(unique low-level PCIe test cases)
IOL INTERACT™ PC Edition v12.0... … for NVMe/PCIe SSDs
IOL INTERACT™ LeCroy Edition v12.0 ...
NVMe Base Specification
Conformance v12.0
...Performs this required test plan...
...Performs this required test plan...
Download and
run tools today!
15. NVMe Conformance Test Plan #12
Updates
15
NVMe
Conformance
TP #11 65+
Changes
NVMe
Conformance
TP #12
16. • 28 new FYI tests across the entire test plan #12
– NVMe Sanitize command support tests
– Additional NVMe format command tests
– IO Determinism tests
– NVMe Verify command support tests
– Reservations tests
• 14 tests went from MàFYI, Reservations
• Group 7 Reservations
– Added to NVMe-oF testing, as OF-FYI tests
– All dual-port tests are FYI
• 42 additional existing tests now supported for NVMe-oF
NVMe Conformance Test Plan #12
Updates
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17. Conformance ToolsNVMe-oF Conformance Tools / Plans
17
NVMe-oF Specification
Conformance v12.0
...for NVMe-oF Subsystems and HostsIOL INTERACT™ PC Edition...
NVMe Base Specification
Conformance v12.0
...Performs these required test plans...
Download and
run tool today!
18. NVMe-oF Conformance Test Plan #12
Updates
18
NVMe-oF
Conformance
TP #11 11
Changes
NVMe-oF
Conformance
TP #12
19. • 1 new FYI test, Keep Alive Timeout
• All tests are still FYI
• All existing tests have modifications
• Common Theme #1 : Make sure disconnect NVMe-oF
controllers from the testing Station at the beginning and end
of each test.
• Common Theme #2 : Test station and DUT should be on the
same fabric network and configured correctly
NVMe-oF Conformance Test Plan #12
Updates
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20. Conformance ToolsNVMe-MI Conformance Tools / Plans
20
Teledyne LeCroy T34 ...
NVMe-MI Specification
Conformance v12.0
… for NVMe-MI SSDs...Performs this required test plan...
21. NVMe-MI Conformance Test Plan #12
Updates
21
NVMe-MI
Conformance
TP #11 2
Changes
NVMe-MI
Conformance
TP #12
22. • Test 7.3 now reflects proper use of the CESF bit, per
TP2008
• Updated the NVMe Integrators List requirements to match
the NVMe Integrators List Policy Document
NVMe-MI Conformance Test Plan #12
Updates
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23. NVMe/PCIe Interop Systems
https://www.iol.unh.edu/testing/storage/nvme/equipment 23
MAKE MODEL BIOS VERSION OPERATING SYSTEM DRIVER VERSION CPU MODEL PURPOSE
ASRock ASRock Z97 Extreme 6 P2.3 Ubuntu Linux Inbox Microsoft NVMe
Driver
Intel i5-4690K @3.50
GHz
Boot test
ASUSTeK
Computer Inc.
ASUS ROG STRIX
B350-F
0809 Windows 10 Inbox Microsoft NVMe
Driver
AMD Ryzen 3 1300X @
3.50 GHz
I/O test
Dell EMC Dell PowerEdge R740xd 1.3.7 Windows Server
2016
Inbox Microsoft NVMe
Driver
Intel Xeon Bronze 3104
CPU @ 1.70GHz
Hotplug test
Dell, Inc. Dell PowerEdge R720 2.2.2 Windows Server
2012 R2
Inbox Microsoft NVMe
Driver
Intel Xeon CPU E5-2640
@ 2.5GHz
I/O test
Dell, Inc. Dell PowerEdge R710 6.4.0 Ubuntu 14.04 NVMe Driver 1.0 Intel Xeon CPU X5570
@ 2.93 Ghz
I/O test
GIGABYTE Gigabyte H170 Gaming-
3
F5 Ubuntu 16.04,
Kernel 4.4.0
Linux Kernel 4.4.0
NVMe Driver
Intel i3-6100 @ 3.70
GHz
Boot test
Intel
Corporation
Intel Server #1 S2600WT
(Wildcat Pass)
2.7 Windows 10, Build
10240
Inbox Microsoft NVMe
Driver
Intel Xeon CPU E5-
2678W v4 @ 3.00 GHz
I/O test
Intel
Corporation
Intel Server #2 S2600WT
(Wildcat Pass)
2.7 CentOS 6.7, Kernel
2.6.32
Linux Kernel 2.6.32
NVMe Driver
Intel Xeon CPU E5-
2678W v4 @ 3.00 GHz
I/O test
24. NVMe Interoperability Test Plan #12
Updates
24
NVMe
Interoperability
TP #11 3
Changes
NVMe
Interoperability
TP #12
25. • Test 1.4 clarified expectations for multi-port devices
• Test 1.5 clarified expectations for multi-port devices
• Test 1.10 procedure steps clarified
NVMe Interoperability Test Plan #12
Updates
25
26. Pass NVMe-oF Interop Tests with
2 partners in a multi switch setup.
NVMe-oF Interop Test Suite
Document
NVMe-oF Interop Tests
NVMe-oF Interop Tests
Summary:
1. Discover Target
2. Send Traffic
3. Link Pull
4. Power Up
5. Keep Alive Timeout
Server
RNIC/HBA
NVMe-oF
Target
DUT
Switch
Switch
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27. NVMe-oF Interoperability Test Plan #12
Updates
27
NVMe-oF
Interoperability
TP #11 1
Changes
NVMe-oF
Interoperability
TP #12
28. • Tests 1.1-1.4 are now MANDATORY
• Test 1.5 (Keep Alive Timeout) is still FYI
NVMe-oF Interoperability Test Plan #12
Updates
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29. ● Integrator’s List
● IOL INTERACT™ Information
● Test Plan #12 updates
● Futures
● Logistics
● Q&A
Agenda
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30. • Hsinchu, Taiwan
• January 13 – 16, 2020
• Register Here by October 18th! Event dependent on participation
https://www.iol.unh.edu/event/2020/01/nvme-plugfest-12-taiwan
• Details to be determined after registration closes
Goals + MindsetNVMe Plugfest #12 Asia
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31. ICC Calls
Interop and Compliance Committee (ICC)
Chair: Ryan Holmqvist, Microsemi
• Meets every other Tuesday 2PM Eastern /
11AM Pacific
• Announcements/Meeting invites made on ICC
reflector
ICC Calls
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32. • Integrator’s List
• IOL INTERACT™ Software Update
• Test Plan #12 updates
• Futures
• Logistics
• Q&A
Agenda
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33. • Test companies attend the event to support vendor devices.
• Devices will have test slots with test equipment companies for informative
purposes.
• Test support companies include:
Conformance ToolsPartners and Support
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34. Download the latest tools and run them!
● Tools used at the plugfest are available now
● Use them to pre-qualify your products
● Link to licensing agreement
–https://www.iol.unh.edu/solutions/test-tools/interact
● Link to UNH Box PC Edition IOL INTERACT™ Software
–https://unh.box.com/s/cktgos25cjfk6alclromuvqfn1lgebgd
● Link to UNH Box LeCroy Edition IOL INTERACT™ Software
–https://unh.app.box.com/folder/75601888099
Be Prepared!
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35. Bring 2+ Samples of each product
• Conformance tests will only require 1 sample
• Interop tests require that 2 samples be used
simultaneously
• Bring any necessary PCs, tools, cables that will be necessary to re-program
or re-flash your device
• If you have a larger product (e.g. large PCIe dev board), bring your own PCIe
flex or riser cables
• Adapters available from serialcables.com and teledynelecroy.com
Be Prepared - PCIe!
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36. • Bring host system for products to run in
• Bring required cabling for your product
(including break out cables & management
cables)
• Bring any necessary PCs, tools, cables that
will be necessary to re-program or re-flash
your device
• Short Range, multimode transceivers
• Power cables (if you have unique
requirements please let us know in advance)
Be Prepared - Fabrics!
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37. Available!
● Wired and wireless internet provided
● Power cords, mice, keyboards, monitors
● Conference rooms available upon request
● Shipping Supplies – tape, labels, etc.
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39. Travel
Visa Invitation Letter Contact:
kerry.munson@iol.unh.edu
Shipping Address:
UNH-IOL NVMe Plugfest
Attn: Kerry Munson
21 Madbury Rd Suite 100
Durham, NH 03824
📞: 603-862-0090
All equipment must arrive by November 1st
for NVMe-oF Plugfest and November 8th for
NVMe/PCIe Plugfest.
Airports:
MHT - Manchester Boston Regional Airport
( 🕐1 hr)
BOS - Boston Logan International Airport
( 🕒1hr 30mins)
Hotels, Travel, Parking Info:
https://www.iol.unh.edu/about/visit
Train: 🚄
Amtrak - Downeaster
Boston North Station > Durham-UNH
http://www.amtrakdowneaster.com/
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40. Parking
Parking code will be provided
to registrants
UNH Campus Map:
https://www.iol.unh.edu/sites/
default/files/images/direction
s/iol-campus-map.pdf
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41. Logistics
Ø NVMe-oF Plugfest runs Monday – Thursday
Ø NVMe PCIe Plugfest runs Monday - Thursday
Ø Doors open at 8AM, testing until 6PM
Ø Kickoff meeting Mondays @ 11AM
Ø Light breakfast and lunch provided each day
Ø Device schedule will be made after registration closes
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42. Registration
NVMe-oF Plugfest - https://www.iol.unh.edu/event/2019/11/nvme-plugfest-12
NVMe PCIe Plugfest - https://www.iol.unh.edu/event/2019/11/nvme-pcie-plugfest-12
Registration will close October 18, 2019 (Fabrics), October 25, 2019 (PCIe)
Registration Limits:
● At registration 2 unique products may be registered.
● All other products will be waitlisted and accepted on a space-available basis.
● At registration you can register 4 engineers.
● Additional engineers will incur an additional fee.
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44. Questions?
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