Spirent Communications VDI testing suite

Spirent Communications now offers enterprise IT managers and network system developers the ability to validate at scale the performance and security of their advanced network virtualisation and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments. The company’s suite of solutions - Spirent TestCenter, Spirent Avalanche and Spirent Studio - offers users a holistic approach to testing the quality of experience (QoE), security, uptime and scalability of private and public clouds.

Testing with Spirent ensures that enterprises are prepared for secure VDI rollouts as well as scalable network virtualisation cloud platforms, and are able to address fundamental issues that impact the network, such as: determining the best performing cloud and VDI platform for different applications and services; assessing the availability of end-to-end network, computing and storage resources during peak times; ensuring readiness of next-generation network security with profiles to detect undesirable applications and block them from being accessed; validating the optimal scalability of cloud and VDI platforms as additional users and virtual machines are added.

Spirent TestCenter Virtual and Spirent Avalanche Virtual now offer expanded support for any type of hypervisor beyond VMware, including KVM, XEN and Hyper-V, to test network virtualisation capabilities of cloud platforms such as OpenStack.

Spirent Studio Security offers firewall application awareness and vulnerability detection test capabilities for BYOD deployments.

Spirent TestCenter OpenFlow tests performance and scale of virtual and physical devices in cloud networks based on software defined networking (SDN).

The company has partnered with Login VSI B.V. for VDI testing, adding realistic user emulation to determine optimal performance of private or public cloud-based VDI deployments.