Virtual Instruments Debuting Load DynamiX Enterprise 5.2

Virtual Instruments, Inc. announced enhancements to its Load DynamiX Enterprise platform, an integrated solution for workload acquisition, analysis, modeling and performance analytics.

The solution for storage workload performance validation and testing, Load DynamiX Enterprise gives storage architects, engineers and operations managers insights into how workload behaviour affects storage system performance in production. This enables IT teams to innovate with confidence, mitigate risks and proactively avoid infrastructure performance issues.

Load DynamiX Enterprise 5.2 gives customers the ability to assess the performance of storage infrastructures employing Microsoft-based solutions – such as Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, as well as Hyper-V – using the SMB3 Workload Model, including SMB3 Encryption support. Included with version 5.2 is the ‘Iteration Explorer’, available for all workloads, which provides storage architects with critical insights on demand to quickly determine the storage infrastructure’s blind spots at full production scale.

In addition, customers using this version along with VirtualWisdom platform can now more efficiently use Load DynamiX Enterprise to visualise their production workload data to better understand their workload I/O characteristics due to the improved integration between the two product lines.

Also announced, Version 5.4 of the Load DynamiX Workload Generation Appliance and test development environment provides improvements to iSCSI and object workload modeling capabilities and insights into the utilisation history of Workload Generation Appliances in test labs where the appliances are heavily utilised.

“Our goal is to help applications and infrastructure perform better together by providing customers the most critical insights from their data,” said Tim Van Ash, SVP, products, Virtual Instruments. “The Load DynamiX Enterprise enhancements achieve that while empowering IT teams to intelligently deploy storage infrastructure, proactively identify and resolve performance problems, and stay at the forefront of software-defined and converged storage technologies.“

Additional key features from Load DynamiX Enterprise 5.2
and Workload Generation Appliance 5.4 release include:

• Temporal workload models for block-based storage – Previously in beta and now available, the temporal workload models for FC and iSCSI allow users to simulate realistic application workloads that vary I/O characteristics over time.

• iSCSI MPIO – Measure the load balancing and failover designs of a multi-path iSCSI fabric.

• Object response handler – Simulate how different cloud-based applications interact with different object stores by precisely defining how the object storage client responds to over 70 pre-defined HTTP response codes.

• FC LUN service – shortens the time required to configure a large multi-path FC Test Bed.

Load DynamiX Enterprise 5.2 is available.