Aticara VXLan

Simulation
VXLAN Testing with Aticara
Application Note

Aticara Introduction
Aticara is a completely software based and virtualized traffic simulator which can run on
Commercial Off the Shelf Hardware (COTS) and can generate line rate traffic both
stateful and stateless.

Supported Hypervisors: ESX, KVM, Openstack Supported Speeds: 1

/10/25/40/50/80/100 Gbps (200 & 400 Gbps in roadmap)*

VXLAN testing using Aticara

Aticara facilitates functional and performance testing of VXLAN Gateways both
physical and virtual by generating Vxlan traffic which represent multi-tenant application
sharing L2/L3 infrastructure.

Aticara can surround the VXLAN gateway and generate traffic representing several
hundred thousand virtual machine generating Vxlan encapsulated traffic.

Aticara is beneficial because it allows the QA engineer to simulate VXLAN

encapsulated traffic originating from several hundred thousand Virtual Machine without
having to have configure them thereby also shrinking the test bed required for
generating huge volume of VXLAN traffic.

Aticara can simulate several hundred thousand emulated VM’s that can generate
stateless as well as stateful traffic (ICMP, TCP, HTTP). Aticara emulates, several
hundred thousands of Virtual Tunnel End Points (VTEP), which in turn applies the Vxlan
encapsulation.
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Aticara simulates servers behind the VLAN, which can be configured to match the
corresponding VNI. Figure1 depicts the way Aticara can wrap around the VXLAN
Gateway to achieve both function and performance testing.

VXLAN Use Cases Achievable with Aticara

As Vxlan Gateways become more sophisticated and heavily deployed in the cloud, the
level of testing required verifying the functionality and performance becomes critical.

Below are some of the scenarios, which can be tested with

Aticara:
(1) Small number of VTEPS with large number of VNI and eVM’s

(2) Large Number of VTEP’s with small number of VNI and eVM’s

(3) Broadcast/Multicast Flood test

(4) Line rate application traffic per VNI

(5) VXLAN/VLAN Leakage

(6) VM Migration

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VTEP IP VNI Multicast eVM IP

Group address
VTEP 1 192.168.1.10 14 239.0.0.1 10.10.10.0
VTEP 2 192.168.1.11 15 239.0.0.1 11.11.11.0

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