Network Performance Testing

BreakingPoint VMware VMotion support

BreakingPoint announced that they can now emulate VMotion traffic. Pretty neat idea for those companies out there that have products that work with VMotion - a convenient way of having the ability to emulate this without using the real thing. Speaking from personal experience, it's pretty hard to get VMotion setup for a large deployment, and even more difficult if you want all of the other pieces and parts working together. Once you have it set up, you're not likely going to want to experiment with it to prove something works faster or slower. I hope this helps folks developing acceleration and optimization products for VMware and VMotion.

Shunra Software Releases Shunra Virtual Enterprise for VMware

Virtualized stuff is always interesting to me, and I am glad to see at least one vendor who has put a lot of focus on adding features and functionality targeted to virtualized test efforts. Shunra has a decent summary page on how they work with VMware. It seems that you can emulate WAN conditions with VM images and Virtual Infrastructure, which would be extremely useful in testing apps and deployments. My company uses VI 3 and leverages a lot of VMware's technology to speed our testing process for many things. This will likely be a great tool for us to look into. Full press release here: Shunra Software Releases Shunra Virtual Enterprise for VMware Infrastructure 3