Intel Ethernet - E800 Series Network Adapter

Project Name	:	Intel Ethernet - E800 Series Network Adapter - LAN Performance
Project Duration	:	OCT 2022 - Till Now
Job Designation	:	Driver Validation Engineer
Organization	:	Intel - India

Project Description :

This project aimed to collect the LAN Throughput and Latency performance of Intel E700 Series Ethernet Network adapters in test environment and validating against defined KPI.

Roles and Responsbilites :

Reseting BIOS configuration to default values and applying tunned BIOS configuration manually
Bringing up Test system: By installing OS (Linux RHEL or Windows Server 2019/2022 Data center)
Applying performance tunned configuration to Kernel, OS, network adapter and Traffic generator applications based on test requirement.
Executing LAN Throughput performance test by manullay or using automated scripts using iperf or Netperf traffic generator to collect following performance data sets with CPU utilization of the SUT test system:

TCP Traffic Buffer Size = 32 to 65535
UDP Traffic Buffer Size = 32 to MAX MTU Size
Number of Traffic Threads = 1 to MAX Number of Test system CPU Cores
Number of Test ports in Ethernet Adapter = 1 to MAX number of PF ports supported in Network Adapter
Traffic Directions = UX (TX , RX) and BX

Executing Latency Test by manuall or using automated scripts using netperf tool
Analyse collected results, prepare a report for it and share it to team and management

Technologies and Tools Used :

iPerf2	:	used for collecting TCP and UDP LAN Throughput Performance Data
netperf	:	used for collecting TCP / UDP LAN Throughput and Latency Performance Data
Bash Shell and python script	:	used for collecting LAN Throughput Performance data on Linux (RHEL) OS used parmiko, subprocess, os, openpyxl python modules to automate End to End Test
BAT and Powershell script	:	used for collecting LAN Throughput Performance data on Windows Server OS

Challenges :

Collecting One set of LAN performance test result by manually takes ~ 12 to 14 hours. If each traffic test executes for 30 seconds

Achievements :

Using Shell, BAT, powershell and Python Automated LAN performance test.
Reduced execution time to Half without manuall intervention using standalone automation script
Automated script will take care below things

Appplying Performance Tunning configurations to Test systems and Test Network Adapters
Installing Traffic Generator Tools and other required depedencies packages, apps, libs
Collecting Test System information - OS details, Network Adapter details, Kernel details, hardware information and other basic informations
Testing connectivity between SUT to each client test system
If connectivity check passed, start execuing LAN performance test with multiple scalable parameters
Each test will collect Throughput data and CPU utilization data.
Collected data will redirect to Excel CSV file

Products Tested :

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