BreakingPoint is First to Emulate VMotion Application Traffic for Realistic Testing of Network Devices Within a Virtualized Environment

Austin, TX – January 28, 2009 – BreakingPoint today announced the BreakingPoint Application Protocol for VMware® VMotion™ enabling Network Equipment Manufacturers (NEMs) and Service Providers to emulate VMware VMotion traffic at speeds of up to 40 Gigabits per second in their test environment. When combined with the BreakingPoint Application Protocol for NFS and SMB/CIFS, it eliminates the costs and delays of testing a VMware ESX server infrastructure and Storage Area Network (SAN).

VMware, with more than 120,000 customers (www.vmware.com/customers), is a leader in the virtualization market. As more and more networks introduce virtualized machines, VMware VMotion is being used to migrate these virtual machines between servers while they are actively running. It is becoming critical for NEMs and Service Providers to test network device performance in a VMware environment. Yet, the limitations of legacy test tools forced vendors to build out an additional infrastructure to emulate application traffic required to validate the performance and security of network devices designed for virtualized environments.
 
BreakingPoint Reduces Testing Complexity and Time-to-Test

Mike Hamilton, Director of Product Marketing, BreakingPoint
“BreakingPoint can replace much of the equipment used for testing with an easy-to-use single device, allowing you to eliminate the cost and time of setting up this complicated network to simulate the VMotion protocol. On top of the BreakingPoint application protocol for VMotion, our support of the NFS and SMB/CIFS protocol also emulates the SAN traffic that is necessary to test a VMware infrastructure.”

NEMs and service providers developing and deploying network devices use BreakingPoint to test equipment with a mix of real application traffic, live security strikes, and speeds of up to 40 gigabits per second of blended Layer 4-7 traffic in a single 3-slot chassis. BreakingPoint testing tools are updated consistently in order to support the most popular applications such as VMware VMotion and more than 70 additional application protocols and 3,700 security strikes.

Mr. Hamilton continued:
“VMware VMotion provides enormous benefits for data centers, including high availability and performance, while enabling load balancing and resource optimization. Using BreakingPoint you can emulate this application running on TCP port 8000, the communication between the VMware ESX servers, the TCP connection with the new destination server and even the ICMP echo request to ensure the seamless transfer of the connections between the old and new server. BreakingPoint testing tools provide an unmatched level of testing realism and performance in a small footprint device, supplying people with more accurate performance and security testing results and helping them accelerate the development and deployment of their network equipment.”

About BreakingPoint

BreakingPoint accelerates the development and testing of high-performance content-aware network equipment with fast, accurate, responsive, and easy-to-use application, performance and security testing tools. BreakingPoint is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices and customers in Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, United States and the United Kingdom. For more information visit www.breakingpoint.com.