Fibre Channel

Overview

The Load DynamiX Fibre Channel test and validation platform includes a full-featured FC initiator, which is essential for system level validation of block level storage as well as storage networking environments.

The solution has the ability to drive FC traffic at line rate on every port at 16/8/4G speeds. FC protocol support includes connectivity either directly to FC targets, as well as to FC SAN switches. Targets are automatically discovered and presented to the user.

A rich suite of SCSI commands is presented for detailed system level testing. This suite covers the entire set of mandatory SCSI commands for disk. Commands specified to the user are injected directly at the SCSI layer, ensuring unparalleled performance, repeatability and scalability.

Details

Performance Engineering Solution

Simplify testing processes and accelerate the release of new products.

Fibre Channel Transport

FC switch connectivity support (FC-SW)
FC direct and loop target connectivity support (FC-P2P and FC-AL)
NPIV for up to 250 logins/port
Packet capture and decode, reporting, graphing and statistics

SCSI Commands

Fine grain control over data traffic at the SCSI level
No OS or other optimizations ensures that exact SCSI workloads can be replicated
Comprehensive command set for SCSI Primary Commands (SPC), SCSI Block Commands (SBC) and SCSI Streaming Commands (SSC)
Direct transmission from SCSI layer (no OS interference)
Detailed SCSI graphs and statistics

SCSI Workloads

Specify FC level actions as well as SCSI level actions in the same test scenario
Mix and match actions and scenarios and vary load profiles to create different traffic and load patterns
Detailed statistics and graphs that report SCSI actions, errors, data sent/received, etc.
Workload support for emulating standard test tools like IOmeter, via the automation API
The automation API allows for complex scripting to achieve virtually any task needed with the protocol commands supported

Data Integrity