SwiftTest 5000 Specifications

The SwiftTest 5000 is a hardware and software product for your high-volume 10 Gigabit Ethernet storage network where you need the biggest pipe possible. The SwiftTest 5000 provides all the performance, 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
• Two 10GE 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

• 34Gbps full-duplex traffic on two 10GE ports
• Millions of simulated concurrent users
• Multiple simultaneous testers can run independent tests