Load DynamiX products are used to test data center storage performance, helping Fortune 1000 companies manage risk and save money.

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March 2015
Warren Bell
VP, Worldwide Sales
Storage Performance Validation
Introduce change with confidence

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Who is Load DynamiX?
Leader in storage performance validation
Mission
Provide actionable insight into storage infrastructure
behavior to assure performance & optimize cost
Product Suite
 Software: Load DynamiX Enterprise
 Hardware: LDX load generation appliance
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Award Winning Technology

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Why Customers Use Load DynamiX
Introduce change with confidence
Configuration
Optimization
Tiering, caching,
SSD/HDD mix
Product
Evaluation
Best product for
your workloads
Technology Evaluation
Flash, NFSv4, FCoE,
OpenStack, Ceph, …
Change
Validation
Effect of H/W
and S/W
changes
Pre-Production
Staging Validation
Hot staging and burn-in
Storage
Life Cycle

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Performance Profiling
Fully characterize performance
of arrays under wide variety of
load parameters
Workload Modeling
Simulate the I/O profiles of
your production environment
Storage Performance Validation
2 core methodologies
Technology Evaluation
Flash, NFSv4, FCoE,
OpenStack, Ceph, …
Change
Validation
Effect of HW and
SW changes
Pre-Production
Staging Validation
Hot staging and burn-in
Product
Evaluation
Best product for
your workloads
Configuration
Optimization
Tiering, caching,
HDD/SSD mix, …
Storage
Life Cycle

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 Optimize Storage Investment
• Eliminate over/under-provisioning by aligning your
workload requirements to deployment decisions
 Mitigate Risk
• Identify issues before deployment by testing at
extreme scale and worst-case conditions
 Innovate with Confidence
• Adopt the latest storage technologies without the
fear of unpredictable performance
 Improve Lab & Engineering Efficiency
• Make better engineering decisions and reduce
testing costs
Benefits of Using Load DynamiX
“If you can’t
validate
technology
before it’s
deployed into
production, then
you’re flying
blind.”
Julia Palmer
Performance
Engineering
Manager

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How Load DynamiX Works
3 steps to insight

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Optimize Storage Investment & Mitigate Risk
In 3 simple steps
Create Model
Create storage
workload
emulations from
production data or
use our sample
workloads.
Analyze
Results
Find performance
limits. Compare
latency, throughput &
IOPS of different
products and configs.
Run Tests
Connect the
storage systems to
the Load DynamiX
load generation
appliance and run
the tests.
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Create a Model
PRODUCTION STATS
(Perfstats, .nar, .btp,
NFSstat, etc)
ACCURATE, REALISTIC
WORKLOAD MODEL
PRE-BUILT TEST SUITES
(VDI, Exchange, etc)
PACKET CAPTURES
(PCAPs)
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Run Tests2
Load DynamiX
FC
SCSI
SMB
NFSiSCSI
OBJECT
HTTP-S
Systems Under TestWorkload Emulation

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 Technology
Evaluation
 Product Evaluation
 Configuration
Optimizations
 Pre-Production
Staging Validation
 Change Validation
Analyze Results3
Analytics Insight

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Real-World Results: Customer Quotes
“Load DynamiX is
like my smart
phone – I can’t
imagine my life
without it!”
Julia Palmer
Go Daddy
“Load DynamiX
made it easy to
migrate to a private
cloud. We were
able to determine
real-world behavior
and save money.”
Sys Ops Director
Ellie Mae
“Using Load
DynamiX saves me
a lot of time and
provides insight
into how my
storage system
actually works.”
Todd Gleason
Firehost

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Thank you!