Very few technologies have come along and offered the kind of value to
operations like server virtualization. And the clear leader in that space
today is VMware. With over 90% of the Fortune 100 using their product,
VMware is here to stay.
As both a VMware VIP Enterprise Partner
and HP Elite Partner, Genilogix offers
innovative products and services that bring virtualization together with automated functional and performance testing,
test management, and performance monitoring. Genilogix also resells the full product
lines from VMware and HP Software allowing us to put together complete virtualized
testing solutions for our customers. Not only do we help organizations optimize
their own virtual infrastructures and incorporate virtual test labs into QA, we practice what we preach. Genilogix's internal
infrastructure runs on VMware using testing and monitoring tools from HP.
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HP TestDirector for Quality Center pioneered the management of information
related to the testing process. Today, Quality Center is the de facto standard in
QA for managing requirements, tests, results, defects and the workflow that surrounds
them. But with all the efficiencies gained by using it, the bottleneck of
provisioning test machines, setting up applications under test (AUTs), and enabling
access to widely distributed QA teams has remained.
VMware Lab Manager is the solution.
Building on the industry-leading VMware Infrastructure, it provides a self-service portal for
distributed teams to create, share and manage multi-tier dev/test environments. VMware Lab Manager delivers
cost savings beyond traditional virtualization for IT Operations by removing time-consuming
system provisioning tasks. Additionally, VMware Lab Manager provides functionality
that was never before available such as the ability to capture a point in time snapshot
of a test environment's memory and storage state as a URL that can be forwarded from QA to
development.
The VMware Lab Manager Add-in for HP Quality Center provides an automation bridge
between testing and deployment of test environments. QA staff now have the power to
seamlessly invoke operations in VMware Lab Manager as part of a Test Set within
HP Quality Center or from QuickTest Professional. Test Sets can now deploy variations of
applications under test in a virtualized environment and direct other testing tools
such as QuickTest Professional and WinRunner to run against them. When defects are
encountered, the Add-in facilitates the creation of LiveLinks to capture the running state
of the application when it failed. When the tests are finished running, the Add-in
can undeploy the virtualized environment to save memory and processing resources.
For more information, please contact a Genilogix representative.
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As organizations consolidate servers and storage, the applications that
depend on this infrastructure must be tested to ensure optimal configuration.
To quote VMware, "problems that can't be measured, can't be repaired."
Enter HP and Genilogix's Performance Pack for VMware (datasheet). When mission-critical applications
are virtualized, a number of configuration decisions are made that affect performance
and availability. Using MonitorBridge for VMware in
conjunction with HP's LoadRunner or Performance Center performance testing tools, Genilogix can
extend visibility from performance problems inside of VM's to the VMware ESX Server
as a whole by correlating esxtop statistics against end-user activity. And once the virtualized applications are moved
into production, Business Availability Center and SiteScope can also use MonitorBridge for VMware.
For more information, please contact a Genilogix representative.
