Key challenges include:

• Adequate coverage without wasting time is the traditional tradeoff when conducting functional and performance tests.
• Testing products at true production scale while running realistic workloads.
• Teams often spend more time administering and maintaining test systems and authoring custom scripts than in actually running the tests.
• Large and complex physical test environments must be kept intact to make system level regression testing truly replicable.

Components include:

• User Interfaces: tailored for novice to advanced users, Load DynamiX offers three different levels of user interfaces for test development, workload modeling, test configuration, results interpretation, and collaboration.
• Protocols: detailed performance optimized emulation of networked storage protocols to provide rich, highly accurate emulations of storage workloads across File, Block and Object/Cloud storage.
• Appliances: load generation appliances capable of executing complex traffic emulation at extreme loads over Ethernet and Fibre Channel.

• Realistic storage traffic, with unmatched storage protocol detail and configurability and extensive support of parameterization
• Realistic application traffic, with Load DynamiX’s high performance protocol stacks
• Realistic user authentication, with Load DynamiX’s robust support of multiple authentication protocols to accurately stress user-aware infrastructure, validating access policies anywhere that user-context is critical
• Realistic content, with our unique content generation and verification capabilities
• Realistic load, with appliances that generate up to 180 Gbps of traffic, load massive files and emulate millions of realistic clients

Efficient and expedient testing process

• Consistent, repeatable, testing, with generation of precisely controlled identical traffic patterns every time
• Accelerated test creation, with pre-built tests and intuitive set-up and use
• Accelerated test execution, with the ability to load massive files or client loads in a fraction of the time it takes with other tools
• Unified testing practices, with a single test platform for files, blocks, and the cloud

Reduced test infrastructure spend

• Reduced footprint by replacing racks of servers with one efficient 2U appliance
• Reduced spend on home grown tools, with a solution that is commercially maintained and continually enhanced to support new protocols and features