RE: SONiC community meeting agenda for 3/26 -- meeting notes and recording

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Xin Liu (CLOUD)

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Mar 27, 2019, 1:12:19 AM3/27/19

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Folks:

Today’s SONiC community meeting recording is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcK31WL173s&feature=youtu.be

Please find meeting notes below, thanks to Madhu from Aviz to take notes.

OCP MoM - 03/26/2019

Discussions/Talks -

· How to set up KVM to run SONiC image, this will help you to run SONiC without hardware - Shoutan Cheng

· How to run PTF test for SAI - Chitra Raghavan from Dell

Q&A

How to set up KVM to run SONiC image, this will help you to run SONiC without hardware - Shoutan Cheng

The following questions on new virtual switch platform for SONiC Development?

· Since ASIC replaced with virtual switch Kernel in virtual switch platform how does it behave when interfaces changes ex: up/down? No difference, it's SAI sdk

· Is new virtual switch platform is available on GIT? Not yet, since this is next version of virtual switch platform, Shoutan will post it after few tests.

· Why can't use VS dockers instead KVM VS ? VS is the appropriate option to mimic real switch.

· Is KVM VS server mandatory for 1804 and next releases? - Yes

· How much test coverage with virtual switch platform ? You could cover all the control plane and SWSS etc.

· Where can we find these virtualTestBed Steps? Yes, it is available on Git

· How do troubleshoot KVM-KVM packet drop issues ? You could run tcpdump etc tools on host side.

· Is SONiC using FRR? No it's using Quagga, but you could run FRR virtual switch

· Is virtual switch VM using SONiC Linux Kernel ? yes

· How many Real cores and Hyper Threading cores? Shoutan will update the correct number of physical and HT cores in the test bed document.

· Shall we use other than Arista Eos ? Yes, you could use any virtual switch.

How to run PTF test for SAI - Chitra Raghavan from Dell

PTF - to test and validate infrastructure

The following questions on ptf framework usage.

· Can we use ptf on physical NICs? Yes

· Is this four ports mandatory? No [4 ports are enough to cover all the tests]

· Can we extend more ports ? Yes

· Do we need to stop SYNCD process to run the test suite ? yes

· Is ptf integrated with Ansible - No

· Does it need any intermediate device to intercept tag and untag? - Yes

Additional

Introduced new webpage for SONiC and walk through wiki and new pages - Xin

Setup Slack workspace - Zheng from Juniper

Thanks

Xin

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Subject: [OCP-Networking] SONiC community meeting agenda for 3/26

Folks:

Please note that our community meeting has changed to bi-weekly Tuesday morning 8am~9am PST since this week.

The invitation from OCP is attached. The bridge is GoToMeeting.

The tentative agenda for tomorrow is

- How to set up KVM to run SONiC image, this will help you to run SONiC without hardware

- How to run PTF test for SAI

We have renovated the SONiC landing page - https://azure.github.io/SONiC/, and updated SONIC architecture doc thanks to Dell and LNKD team’s work.

Please check it out.

Thanks

Xin

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