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Virtualized Environment Performance Validation
Validate the performance, security and stability of virtualized environments
Virtualization is becoming a must-have technology within most organizations, not only for cost savings but also for the benefits of simplification of complex environments. Take, for example, the leader in the virtualization space, VMware, with more than 120,000 customers. Combine that number with other virtualization providers, and there is a groundswell of virtualization users throughout the world.
The growth of virtualized environments and the need for performance validation
The growth of the use of virtualization means that equipment vendors, enterprises and government agencies must validate the performance of network elements and systems that are being used to manage these unique environments. Traditionally, in order to make this happen, vendors would build out an additional infrastructure to emulate the application traffic and test the equipment. The irony is that virtualization should mean eliminating complexity, not adding this type of complexity, confusion and cost.
VMware® VMotion™ and other virtualization technologies provide enormous benefits for data centers, including high availability and performance, while enabling load balancing and resource optimization.
Measuring the resiliency of virtualized environments with BreakingPoint Storm CTM™
Effective assessment of equipment being used to manage a virtualized environment depends on a simulation of an authentic blend of application traffic combined with live security strikes at line-rate speeds. BreakingPoint’s Cyber Tomography Machine (CTM) emits extreme application and malicious stress vectors into cyber infrastructure components and systems such as routers, switches, servers, firewalls and more. It then measures and displays the effects of the stress vector on the device over time and the performance of the device or system within a virtualized environment.
BreakingPoint Storm CTM provides more than 100 application protocols for simulation, including VMware VMotion. Using BreakingPoint Storm CTM organizations emulate VMware VMotion traffic, blended with other traffic and security strikes, to quickly determine a device or system’s performance when faced with a virtualized environment.
