Ixia Unveils Its PerfectStorm Validation And Testing Platform

Ixia enables the high performance of modern datacentres, with a fraction of the previously required resources, with its new PerfectStorm validation and testing platform. As complex applications and virtualisation continue to increase datacentre infrastructure risks, PerfectStorm, within a single chassis, mitigates against these risks by generating real application and malicious traffic at scales of nearly one terabit. PerfectStorm also scales to handle high session rates, supporting 24 million connections per a second and up to 720 million concurrent sessions, similar to the nearly every person in Europe initiating an Internet search.

Datacentre operators and network equipment manufacturers demand systems that perform at the levels required to test and ensure the resiliency of the datacentre infrastructure. The PerfectStorm platform is the only system that provides modular scalability, achieving near terabit levels of mixed application and malicious traffic to securely test all elements of today’s complex datacentres, including server applications, storage workloads and networking elements.

In a single 11U chassis, PerfectStorm enables comprehensive datacentre validation by seamlessly unifying the IxLoad and BreakingPoint software applications into a single system to deliver:

• Datacentre testing performance with nearly a terabit of traffic equaling 720 million concurrent TCP sessions at 24 million sessions per second.

• 960 Gbps of blended application traffic, including over 200 application protocols and over 35,000 malicious attacks, to validate every element of the datacentre with confidence, including applications, security, storage, networking, voice and video, at any scale with a single platform.

• The industry’s highest performance density solution available, delivering in an 11U form factor the performance that requires over 25 feet of rack space from the competition, reducing datacentre costs for space, cooling and electricity.

• Actionable insight to understand how networks will react based on real-world assessment of any datacentre infrastructure weaknesses.

• Support for the latest high-density connectivity options with 8x10Gbps and 2x40Gbps interfaces per blade, which will enable rapid datacentre adoption while not taking up entire racks of space in the datacentre.

• Easy-to-set-up-and –use management of the high-scale and multi-user system.