Setting Up a VTunerServer for a DPU on an FPGA Board

This section describes how to set up a VTunerServer for use with a DPU running on an FPGA board.

Before you begin

Make sure:
  • An FPGA board with DPU is available.
  • The target operating system is Ubuntu 18 x64 or another Unix-like operating system.
  • A VTunerServer release package VTunerServer-<version>-hardware-<date>.tgz is available.

Procedure

  1. Start up the FPGA board.
  2. Copy the VTunerServer release package to the FPGA board.
  3. Run the following commands to set up a VTunerServer: 
    tar -xzpvf VTunerServer-*.tgz
cd tuning-server
./run_server.sh -port 6060

    The specified VTunerServer port is used to connect to VTunerClients. For more information, see Setting Up a Connection to a VTunerServer.

Results

When the VTunerServer is set up, the following figure is displayed.
Figure 1. VTunerServer Setup Complete

What to do next

You can connect VTunerClients to the VTunerServer and tune the DPU features on the FPGA board. Each tuning result is saved at the VTunerServer workspace as an image. For details, see VTunerClient.