Shunra announced recently that they've integrated with HP Performance Center 9.5. The product is called Shunra VE Desktop for HP Software, and allows each load generator in the HP Performance Center to be setup to emulate different WAN conditions.
From the press release:
Some typical uses of Shunra VE Desktop for HP Software include the detection of:
Latency impact – Latency causes the transactions and sessions to stay open longer than they would on the LAN. Without incorporating the WAN effects of delay into a load test the memory usage, thread usage, and other critical server resources can be significantly understated.
Bandwidth limitations – Bandwidth constraints affect transactions "in-flight," causing them to take longer to complete their transmission and ultimately impacts important server resources.
Network impact – Where specific response time goals are being targeted, it is important to incorporate the effect of the network into existing testing processes to examine the impact on total response time. Shunra enables you to accurately assess total response time for remote users prior to deployment and can analyze the breakdown of total response time into the client, network, and server components. This assists in diagnosing and resolving transactions that will not consistently meet response time goals.
Looks like a pretty cool add-on for those of you out there with Performance Center. I think testing with more real-world conditions like this is not just a nice-to-have anymore, but a requirement in today's test environments.
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