surely. I think we can give some inputs here. On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 at 02:06 Scott Dean <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings! > > I have been tasked with transitioning our load testing infrastructure from > physical Windows servers to virtual machines running linux (Redhat > Enterprise Linux 7, to be specific) hosted on VMware. I am looking for > input on how to spec the VMs in terms of number of vCPUs and RAM as well as > number of VMs. Would I be better off with fewer beefy VMs or more VMs of > more modest specification? At present, we have 5 physical servers where > one machine is used as a master/controller and the other four are remote > servers that run the test plans and generate load. Should the master > server be spec'ed differently from the remote servers? > > In the end, I need to be able to make a request to the department > responsible for the VMware environment for a number of VMs with general > specifications regarding # of virtual CPU, allocated RAM, and allocated > disk space. The hosts in the VMware farm appear to be running Intel Xeon > E7-4860 v2 (Sandy Bridge) @ 2.6GHz CPUs > > Background on how we use JMeter: > > I work for a large university, with about 35K students and 10K > faculty/staff, and we are using JMeter to load test our Oracle PeopleSoft > ERP systems (HR, Finance, & Student Administration), when we do major > software or hardware upgrades. We transitioned from HP Loadrunner to JMeter > about 2 years ago with JMeter 3.x. When load testing, our objectives are > to verify that our server/database configurations are sufficient to handle > the anticipated user load for events like student registration, housing > sign-up, or employee annual benefits enrollment, as well as testing for > reasonable response time for particular business processes, like initial > user SSO login to the integrated ERP system, a student registering for > classes, or generating a voucher to pay for something in the financials > system. > > Thanks for the help! > > -- Scott Dean > North Carolina State University > Raleigh, NC USA > -- Rupesh Garg 9160002744
