Testing 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 virtualizaton 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.
Virtualized Testing Overview
The growth of the use of virtualization means that Network Equipment Manufacturers (NEMs) and Service Providers must test network device performance and security when faced with a virtualized environment. Unfortunately, legacy test tools force 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. Using virtualization, whether within testing or in your data center, should mean eliminating complexity, not adding confusion.
BreakingPoint Virtualized Testing Capabilities
BreakingPoint Application Protocol for VMware® VMotion™ enables 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).
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 VMware 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.”
VMware VMotion and other virtualization technology provide 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.
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