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March 2015
Warren Bell VP, Worldwide Sales
Storage Performance Validation Introduce change with confidence
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Who is Load DynamiX?
Leader in storage performance validation
Mission Provide actionable insight into storage infrastructure behavior to assure performance & optimize cost
Product Suite Software: Load DynamiX Enterprise Hardware: LDX load generation appliance ;;
Award Winning Technology
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Why Customers Use Load DynamiX Introduce change with confidence
Configuration Optimization Tiering, caching, SSD/HDD mix
Product Evaluation Best product for your workloads
Technology Evaluation Flash, NFSv4, FCoE, OpenStack, Ceph, …
Change Validation Effect of H/W and S/W changes
Pre-Production Staging Validation Hot staging and burn-in
Storage Life Cycle
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Performance Profiling Fully characterize performance of arrays under wide variety of load parameters
Workload Modeling Simulate the I/O profiles of your production environment
Storage Performance Validation 2 core methodologies
Technology Evaluation Flash, NFSv4, FCoE, OpenStack, Ceph, …
Change Validation Effect of HW and SW changes
Pre-Production Staging Validation Hot staging and burn-in
Product Evaluation Best product for your workloads
Configuration Optimization Tiering, caching, HDD/SSD mix, …
Storage Life Cycle
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Optimize Storage Investment • Eliminate over/under-provisioning by aligning your
workload requirements to deployment decisions
Mitigate Risk • Identify issues before deployment by testing at
extreme scale and worst-case conditions
Innovate with Confidence • Adopt the latest storage technologies without the
fear of unpredictable performance
Improve Lab & Engineering Efficiency • Make better engineering decisions and reduce
testing costs
Benefits of Using Load DynamiX
“If you can’t validate technology before it’s deployed into production, then you’re flying blind.” Julia Palmer Performance Engineering Manager
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Optimize Storage Investment & Mitigate Risk In 3 simple steps
Create Model
Create storage workload emulations from production data or use our sample workloads.
Analyze Results
Find performance limits. Compare latency, throughput & IOPS of different products and configs.
Run Tests
Connect the storage systems to the Load DynamiX load generation appliance and run the tests.
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Create a Model
PRODUCTION STATS (Perfstats, .nar, .btp, NFSstat, etc)
ACCURATE, REALISTIC WORKLOAD MODEL
PRE-BUILT TEST SUITES (VDI, Exchange, etc)
PACKET CAPTURES (PCAPs)
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Run Tests 2
Load DynamiX
FC SCSI
SMB
NFS iSCSI
OBJECT HTTP-S
Systems Under Test
Workload Emulation
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Technology
Evaluation
Product Evaluation
Configuration
Optimizations
Pre-Production
Staging Validation
Change Validation
Analyze Results 3
Analytics Insight
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Real-World Results: Customer Quotes
“Load DynamiX is like my smart phone – I can’t imagine my life without it!” Julia Palmer Go Daddy
“Load DynamiX made it easy to migrate to a private cloud. We were able to determine real-world behavior and save money.” Sys Ops Director Ellie Mae
“Using Load DynamiX saves me a lot of time and provides insight into how my storage system actually works.” Todd Gleason Firehost