Spirent Tests Data Centers, Cloud Environments

Spirent Communications has introduced TestCenter Virtual, the industry’s first solution specifically designed to holistically validate the performance of all elements of the data center and cloud computing environments, including virtual machines (VM), servers and storage devices. Spirent will demonstrate Spirent TestCenter Virtual at Interop 2009.

Spirent TestCenter Virtual is a software solution that extends the capabilities of the Spirent TestCenter platform to test the performance of a virtualized data center’s elements and physical network resources. Spirent claims TestCenter Virtual is the industry’s only solution to:

• Conduct line rate layer 2-7 performance testing of virtual and physical network resources by emulating VLANs, multicast and FCoE traffic along with stateful application protocols
• Measure key layer 2 performance metrics such as throughput, frame loss and latency between virtual and physical network elements, including network-to-VM, VM-to-network and VM-to-VM
• Deliver a unified testing architecture that ensures full compatibility with any Spirent TestCenter interface including Spirent Hypermetrics for accurate, high performance FPGA hardware generated network traffic

Spirent further says TestCenter Virtual delivers the power to architect high performance data center systems, mitigate risks of migration or consolidation of existing IT infrastructure, minimize the total cost of ownership (TCO) of testing resources and optimize infrastructure utilization by testing performance in a multitude of real-world scenarios.