Custom Load Generation

Commercial load generation tools allow recording tier-to-tier communication and creating workloads via playback of the recorded script. Unfortunately, they do not work for all technologies. The alternative of creating a special test harness becomes more timeconsuming when faced with complicated scenarios and a need to analyze results. This paper discusses our experience using an intermediate approach: developing a custom virtual client and running it using commercial tools (with powerful management and reporting features) to arrive at a technology-independent solution.