Testing the Performance and Security of Virtualized Infrastructures

Measure capacity and improve performance of virtualized environments using real-world attacks and authentic user behavior

 

Virtualization promises cost savings and improved IT capabilities for many businesses, but for every story of cost savings there is one about server sprawl and management nightmares. Businesses that rely on cloud-based application services must pinpoint and remediate these problems to improve performance, measure capacity, and ensure resilience to attack and load for their virtualized infrastructures.

Virtualized Infrastructure Testing Challenges

The traditional approach of over-provisioning IT resources to guarantee adequate performance does not work in virtualized environments. In fact, it often produces the opposite effect. Organizations need an agile, comprehensive, and scalable approach to stressing and validating these environments using the real-world conditions unique to each infrastructure. But legacy testing approaches require customers to:

• Build out an enormous test infrastructure to generate sufficient traffic volume.
• Test with stateless traffic that does not resemble real-world application traffic mixes.
• Purchase and integrate add-on testing products to simulate security attacks and malformed traffic.

BreakingPoint Virtualized Infrastructure Testing Solution

BreakingPoint's products and Data Center Resiliency Lab eliminate these obstacles, delivering unsurpassed visibility into the performance, security, and capacity of virtualized infrastructures by subjecting virtual servers and application delivery infrastructures to a range of high-stress conditions.

Every BreakingPoint CTM enables customers to blend real application traffic with live security attacks, protocol fuzzing, and massive user volume to understand in detail how security attacks, malformed traffic, and application interactions will affect the capacity and performance of virtualized infrastructures in the real world. These scalable, compact, and easy-to-use products allow organizations to:

• Configure virtualized environments for optimal performance and capacity.
• Gain confidence that virtualized applications will deliver the best end-user experience even under peak load or attack.
• Improve capacity planning decisions to rightsize virtualized infrastructures and meet business needs cost-effectively.
• Eliminate the complexity and wasted time of traditional testing approaches that employ multiple tools and incompatible interfaces.