performance-engineering

GCP Windows Image with Jmeter and Citirx

The whole article base on read me file from CitirixPlugin and own user experience.

The Citrix JMeter plugin enable the load-testing Citrix XenApp exposed applications.

CitirxPlugin required:

- Windows (administrator rights are necessary)
- Java OpenJDK 8 or higher for x86 architecture or i586 equivalent version (not 64 bits!)
- Jmeter - (version 5.2.1 or later), plugins-manager

Configuration VM image

Step by step:

- Connect to google console
- In Compute Engine - VM instance - Create Instance
- Choose proper Region, Zone and Machine Configuration
- Boot disk with windows image.

Remember to choose one of the support by Citirix Plugin:

- Windows  7, 8.1, 10
- Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019


- Add Network tag, interface and Custom Metadata
- Click on create VM and after VM stared - set&remeber windows user/password

Jmeter and Citirx Installation

Step by step:

- Connect to created VM use set usr/psswd
- Install 32-bits java
- Install Jmeter and plugins-manager
- Install CitrixPlugin via plugins-manager in jmeter
- Install Citirix client on machine

Author: Aga

Reproducible CPU Utilization in Kubernetes/GKE

Michal   cpu, kubernetes, monitoring
With the advent of containerized technologies such as Kubernetes it has become increasingly challenging to properly measure the application CPU utilization for performance testing and benchmarking purposes. In this article we will examine how to improve CPU utilization reproducibility between performance tests and therefore make our performance testing and benchmarking more reliable.

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