For those of you following my recent posts, this shouldn’t come as much of a shock. Shunra now has an exclusive offer for beta tester of HP’s LoadRunner in the Cloud that lets them use Shunra for HP Software FOR FREE!
If you’re not familiar with LoadRunner in the Cloud, it’s one of HP’s latest offerings where they partner with Amazon AWS to offer HP LoadRunner in Amazon’s EC2. The product is currently in beta and is doing very well. To read my post about it and to get links to join the HP beta, go here.
As a long-time partner of HP, Shunra was invited to augment the HP/Amazon partnership by including Shunra for HP Software. In our recent white paper with SAP and HP, we already showed how testing with WAN emulation is valuable for anyone testing distributed applications AND how it all works swimmingly in virtual environments, so the only hurdle was to package everything together.
That packaging is now done. We worked with HP to build an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that is based off of HP’s 32 bit Load Generator AMI and includes Shunra’s WAN emulation component by default, and we have defined a very fast and easy process to install our component on the Controller instance. The Controller component installation for Shunra requires a 15MB download and approximately 90s to install.
Once the new Load Generator is approved internally by HP (in the next few days), it will be added to the list of AMIs available for the HP beta program (again, to request inclusion in the beta program, go here). In the mean time, you can still take advantage of this offer by joining the HP beta program and contacting me directly. After confirming your participation in the HP program, I’ll send you download and installation instructions for the Load Generator as well as the Controller components from Shunra for HP Software – both are required to use WAN emulation in your LoadRunner in the Cloud tests.
As I mentioned in my previous post, HP is waiving their license fees for this beta program. In that light, Shunra has agreed to do the same. The only fees you will be responsible for are from Amazon AWS. From personal experience, I can say that the AWS usage fees are quite reasonable.
If you’re not planning to participate in this beta program, but would still like to learn more about application performance testing in the cloud, I encourage you to comment below or send me a message directly. My contact information is listed at the bottom of this post.
August 1st, 2010 at 2:14 pm
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June 29th, 2011 at 7:13 am
Hi,
I am quite new to this field but still manage to grow as manual tester for mobile applications for different OS, like iOS, Android etc.
I recently learned LR 9.1 for web based application. I am exploring LR for mobile applications for performance testing of applications.
Could you please suggest me some thing?
Regards
Manish