BreakingPoint Server Load Balancer Testing Methodology
Server load balancers have become an integral piece of networking equipment, allowing for load balancing, application acceleration and high availability of services. Adoption of virtualization and cloud computing, as well as the overall increase of network load, has placed server load balancers in a critical juncture of any network infrastructure. Testing of these network-critical devices must shift towards testing with realistic network emulation including:
- Testing the number of TCP connections per second the load balancer is able to handle provides a baseline test of the device’s performance capabilities.
- Determining the overall bandwidth the load balancer can support through testing the number of HTTP/HTTPs connections per second the device can handle.
- Emulating blended Layer 4-7 application traffic to validate the load balancer can handle a true network scenario.
- Simulating dynamic pages and image files to validate HTTP Caching performance.
- Confirming the load balancer can handle malformed packets or errors with the packet through application fuzzing.
- Testing RFCs 793, 1945, 2616, 2818, and 3501.
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BreakingPoint CTO Dennis Cox sits down to discuss important things to remember when testing server load balancers.