VulcanBay Product Numbers:
Vul-28PE-10G-CU
VulcanBay 2U chassis (non-modular), unit controller, AC power, excl. tvcrs.
Equipped with 12 x 1/2.5/5/10G L4-7 Test Ports (12 x RJ45 10000/5000/2500/1000 BaseT), and 28 Packet Engines.
Vul-28PE-25G
VulcanBay 2U chassis (non-modular), unit controller, AC power, excl. tvcrs.
Equipped with 12 x 1/10/25G L4-7 Test Ports (12 x 25GBASE-SR4/LR4 SFP28), and 28 Packet Engines.
Vul-28PE-40G
VulcanBay 2U chassis (non-modular), unit controller, AC power, excl. tvcrs.
Equipped with 8 x 1/10/25G L4-7 Test Ports (4 x 25GBASE-SR4/LR4 SFP28), 2 x 40G L4-7 Test Ports (2 x 40GBASE-SR4/LR4/DAC QSFP+), and 28 Packet Engines.
PORT & SPEED LICENSES
- Vul-V1G-P – Perpetual license to enable 1 x L4-7 Test Port to operate at 1GE (port must support the speed)
- Vul-V10G-P – Perpetual license to enable 1 x L4-7 Test Port to operate at 1GE/2.5GE/5GE/10GE (port must support the speed)
- Vul-V25G-P – Perpetual license to enable 1 x L4-7 Test Port to operate at 1GE/2.5GE/5GE/10GE/25GE (port must support the speed)
- Vul-V40G-P – Perpetual license to enable 1 x L4-7 Test Port to operate at 1GE/2.5GE/5GE/10GE/25GE/40GE (port must support the speed)
FEATURE LICENSES
- Vul-Sec-P – Perpetual license to enable security features (TLS traffic generation) on the chassis
VulcanBay versions:
VulcanManager
VulcanManager is a user-friendly test application for managing the Vulcan Layer 4-7 Gigabit TCP test solutions.
It is used for application emulation, performance verification, load testing, analysis and characterization of Ethernet equipment and network infrastructure.
VulcanManager Core Functions
VulcanManager is a free Windows-based application for managing Vulcan extreme-performance L4-7 test platforms. It is used for stateful end-to-end testing of network devices such as firewalls, SSL/TLS proxies, switches, routers, NAT routers, load-balancers, bandwidth shapers, and more.
VulcanManager is suitable for characterizing network baseline performance for TCP. This is done by measuring connection establishment and teardown rates, number of concurrent connections/transactions, packet forwarding rate at large numbers of connections and identify performance bottlenecks.
With Xena’s TLS 1.2 support, users can do TLS performance testing e.g. handshakes per second, TLS throughput, concurrent TLS connections, etc., with different cipher suites and certificate key sizes on a DUT that decrypts traffic on one side and encrypts on the other.
With VulcanAppMix, the platform allows users to run realistic application traffic mixes for performance verification of content-aware networks and application-aware network devices. This is extremely useful when verifying the performance of network security devices with application-awareness, such as next-generation firewalls, IPS, etc., in both network pre-production and post-production phases of enterprises. VulcanManager also allow users to replay their own captured traffic and scale up to millions of connections.
VulcanManager supports ad-hoc test execution and remote management of test equipment located in multiple locations. Xena also offers an open scripting API (ValkyrieCLI) for automated testing.
- Wire-speed stateful TCP traffic generation and analysis
- TLS performance testing with different cipher suites and certificates
- Application emulation with real-world application traffic mixes enabled by VulcanAppMix
- Replay captured traffic at scale
- Configuration and tuning of Ethernet, IP and TCP header fields for advanced traffic scenarios
- Stateful TCP connection
- Extensive live stats and test reports
- Configurable allocation of processing resources to Ethernet test ports
- Wire-speed traffic capture
- Switched and routed network topologies, NAT support
- Export packet capture to industry standard pcap/Wireshark
Application Emulation
VulcanManager lets you create complex traffic scenarios via VulcanAppMix which is a library containing hundreds of pcaps files of real-world applications. This makes it easy to verify the performance of application-aware networks and devices. With VulcanAppMix’s pre-defined library, different traffic mixes can be loaded and customized for various network environments, etc. enterprise environment and financial institutions.
TLS Performance Testing
VulcanManager lets you select TLS as a layer above TCP to carry out performance testing. With different TLS ciphers suites and various key sizes from TLS certificates, you can test TLS performance such as TLS handshakes per second, concurrent TLS connections, TLS throughput, TLS alerts, etc. Easy to configure and use, Xena’s native TLS makes it quick and easy to test a device that acts in TLS proxy mode, where the device decrypts traffic on one side and encrypts on the other.
TCP Traffic Generation
VulcanManager makes it easy to customize TCP connections by modifying the MAC/IP/TCP headers to create variations in the generated packets.
Traffic rates are specified as a percentage of line rate, frames per second or bit-rate, and traffic generation is controlled by a load profile specifying the speed with which connections are established and terminated.
The TCP payload can be automatically generated (random, incrementing) or customized by the user via a graphical payload editor. Payloads can also be loaded from file.
Stateful Payload Replay
VulcanManager allows users to replay their own captured network traffic on the test networks and devices. The replay is done on the Layer-4 payload level and parameters of the layers below are configurable. The replayed traffic can be scaled up to millions of connections for extreme performance verification. Users can define how to duplicate the captured connections/transactions, i.e. with unique MAC and IP addresses.
Generic Load Testing
Using VulcanManager, test engineers can quickly generate millions of TCP flows with specified load profiles and configurable IP/TCP/Payload parameters. Real time statistics and test reports provide an overview of the system or device characteristics.
Multi-user and Port Reservation
VulcanManager supports multi-user environments at the level of per port reservation. Packet Engines (PE’s) can be reserved and allocated individually, depending on the test scenario, for full operational flexibility and performance.
Report Generation
VulcanManager includes a report generation function that makes it easy to document results as attractive, simple-to-view PDFs.
API Scripting Made Easy
ValkyrieCLI is a text-based Command Line Interface (CLI) API that makes test automation easy to script from any scripting environment that supports TCP/IP.
Browser-based UI
For additional testing convenience, VulcanManager can be used via Phantom, enabling engineers to conduct tests via any HTML5-based browser.
Functional Specifications – VulcanManager |
Application Emulation | Protocol-oriented • Stand-alone application-layer protocol traffic, e.g. HTTP/S, IMAP, MQTT, SMB, FTP, FIX, etc. Application-oriented • Application traffic with various protocols, e.g. email, web browser, IoT, etc. Application Mixes • Application traffic mixes for different network environments • Enterprise mix • Web mix • Finance mix • Data center mix |
TLS Performance Testing | • Cipher encryption, 128-bit and 256-bit AES, in the CBC and GCM modes, ChaCha20, 3DES, and RC4. • Forward secrecy, both DHE and ECDHE • Asymmetric cipher suites on the client and server sides • Customizable cipher suites preference list • Certificate key sizes from 1KB to 8KB • Maximum TLS record size of 16KB • 1.2 million TLS concurrent connections, 14K TLS connections per second |
Traffic-Replay | • Replay captured traffic from industry-standard pcap files • Scale up connections to millions • Configurable traffic composition |
TCP Connection Generation | TCP Applications • Open/close – for CPS and CC testing • Bulk data transfer – for emulation of raw TCP network traffic TCP Application Behavior • Upload (client -> server) • Download (Server -> Client) • Bidirectional (server <-> client) Basic L4+ Emulation • Custom HTTP header • Request/response protocol exchange with custom payload TCP Payload • Finite / Infinite lengths • Custom/increment/random Bandwidth Specification • Per Connection Group • Loads specified in percent of line rate TCP Options and configuration • MSS, window scale, window size MAC/IP/TCP configuration • Ethernet address • VLAN ID/Priority •IP address (src/dst) • IP DS/ECN • TCP port (src/dst) |
Control Protocols | • ARP reply from hosts • ARP request for hosts/GW’s • ICMP Echo replies from hosts |
Per Port Statistics | • Runtime and post-run stats • Packets/bytes (Rx/Tx), packet/byte rates (Rx/Tx), FCS errors • Packet checksum errors (IP + TCP) • Protocol counters (IP, TCP, ARP, ICMP) |
Per Connection Group statisticsGroup statistics | • Runtime and post-run stats • TCP state counters • TCP state rates • Total Rx/Tx packets/bytes • TCP Retransmissions counters • Packet size distribution • Histograms • Connection establishment/ teardown times (max/min/avg) |
Network Topologies | • Switched and routed networks • NAT-routing • TCP-Proxy |
System Requirements: | • CPU: Intel Core i5 • RAM: 4 GB • Required hard disk space: 175 MB • Screen Size: 1280×768 • Operating System: Windows 7 SP1, (Windows Server 2012 SP2 Standard) – Updated Recommended: • CPU: Intel Core i7 • RAM: 8 GB • Required hard disk space: 175 MB • Screen Size: 1280×768 • Operating System: Windows 10, (Windows Server 2016 Standard) |
Vulcan Bay
VulcanBay is a scalable Gigabit TCP test chassis that offers extreme performance for stateful traffic load testing, analysis and characterizing of Ethernet equipment and network infrastructure. It supports 1/2.5/5/10/25/40GE L4-7 interfaces and can be used for simulating millions of real-world end-user environments to test and validate infrastructure, a single device, or an entire system.
Vulcanbay offers stateful end-to-end testing of network appliances such as switches, firewalls, routers, NAT routers, proxies, bandwidth shapers, and more. The platform is also suitable to characterize entire network infrastructure performance.
Developers of Ethernet-based network appliances can characterize their performance by measuring connection establishment and teardown rates, packet forwarding rate at large numbers of connections and identify performance bottlenecks. The platform is also ideal for rapid validation of performance or regression testing.
Developers of stateful network security devices such as next-generation firewalls (NGFW) can measure TLS handshake rate, TLS throughput, TCP CC/CPS, and HTTP CPS/TPS. Users can also replay their own PCAP files to the DUT for performance verification.
VulcanManager is included for ad-hoc test execution and remote management of test equipment located in multiple locations. VulcanAppMix helps to test with real-world applications and protocols for highly scalable application emulation.