SwiftTest 3000 Specifications

The SwiftTest 3000 is a hardware and software product for your Gigabit Ethernet storage testing needs, providing all the flexibility and depth of features you need to transform your environment into a model of high-performance, high-efficiency testing. Easy to deploy and including prebuilt tests and wizards, you can increase testing productivity immediately.

Hardware Overview

• 2U enclosure
• Eight 1GE test ports, configurable as either client or fileserver
• One 1GE management port

Protocols Supported

• CIFS/SMB 1 and 2.X over TCP and NetBT
• NFS: v2, v3, and v4 Client
• iSCSI Initiator
• HTTP/S Client and Server
• Authentication: NTLM, Kerberos, and CHAP

Scenarios

• Granular configuration of protocol parameters
• Configurable pass/fail criteria
• Parameter files for varying usernames, passwords, filenames, and more
• User-uploadable and automatic content generation for writing, reading and verifying

Network Configuration

• IPv4
• Millions of simulated IP addresses
• Multiple MAC addresses
• VLAN support

Load Profile

• Concurrent users, connections, transactions, throughput or bandwidth
• Per-second rate of generating users, connections, transactions, throughput or bandwidth
• Load controlled by graphical layout of load over time.

SwiftTest Test Development Environment

• Graphical application based on .NET
• Runs on a customer-supplied workstation running Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista® or Windows XP®

Automation

• Test parameters can be specified at run-time
• Statistics reported dynamically during the test

Reporting

• Extensive built-in reports
• Network and protocol statistics
• CSV result export
• PCAP capture

File System Simulation

• Windows filesystem simulation including configurable directories, files, attributes, and content

Platform and Performance

• 14Gbps full-duplex traffic on eight 1GE ports
• Millions of simulated concurrent users
• Multiple simultaneous testers can run independent tests