Tools for performance evaluation and tuning of Virtual Infrastructure Managers for (Micro) Virtual Network Functions

This sofware is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Information can be found here: Apache License 2.0.

The repository is organized in this way:

• NOMAD.patch contains our patch which adds the initial support for XEN hypervisor and some utility scripts;
• NOMAD_tuned.patch contains our patch which tunes the support for XEN hypervisor and contains some utility scripts;
• nomad_utilities folder contains scripts we used to generate Jobs, to analyze the packets and to generate the plots;
• nova folder contains the modification to Nova component and includes also the tuned driver;
• glance folder contains the modification to Glance component;

We report some suggestions useful to handle the code:

• NOMAD_tuned.patch depends on NOMAD.patch.
• NOMAD.patch depends on commit 7f4140758ee0660e23303305a2634ef442a76114.
• It is necessary to install all the dependecies of the Python scripts.
• It is necessary to install all the dependecies of the GO program.
• nomad_pusher.go depens on xen_job.json

We report the usage of our scripts:

• For nomad_driver_analyzer.py, it is necessary to put the necessary input in the folder ./nomad_traces and then run the command:

    ./nomad_driver_analyzer.py
  

• For nomad_packet_analyzer.py, it is necessary to put the necessary packets traces in the folder ./nomad_traces and then run the command:

    ./nomad_packets_analyzer.py
  

• For nomad_pusher.jo, it is necessary to create a main program like this:

    package main
  
    import (
        "github.com/user_xxx/our_go_files"
    )
  
    func main() {
        pushers.NomadJobPusher("xen", 100)
    }