Re: jmeter + amazon ec2 + load balancing (elb)

2010-04-26 Thread William Oberman
Someone from amazon cleared up some of my confusion about amazon's load balancers (see the thread: https://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/message.jspa?messageID=175221#175221). I updated the wiki, but to close the loop here: The key facts: -An ELB is associated with 1 to many

Re: jmeter + amazon ec2 + load balancing (elb)

2010-04-26 Thread chaitanya bhatt
It's very kind of you to share this information. Thanks a ton! Chaitanya M Bhatt http://www.performancecompetence.com On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:18 PM, William Oberman ober...@gmail.com wrote: Someone from amazon cleared up some of my confusion about amazon's load balancers (see the thread:

Re: jmeter + amazon ec2 + load balancing (elb)

2010-04-21 Thread Brett Cave
Hi William, Thanks for the feedback. Have 1 question: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:12 PM, William Oberman ober...@gmail.com wrote: 2.) For a given ELB IP, there seems to be a static mapping of client IP - backend instance. This is a slightly complicated statement that assumes a some

Re: jmeter + amazon ec2 + load balancing (elb)

2010-04-21 Thread sebb
May I suggest that the findings are added to the JMeter Wiki? This will make it easier to find, update and refer to later. On 21/04/2010, Brett Cave brettc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi William, Thanks for the feedback. Have 1 question: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:12 PM, William Oberman

Re: jmeter + amazon ec2 + load balancing (elb)

2010-04-21 Thread William Oberman
Brett: yes, I saw amazon recently added two levels of stickiness (load balancer, and application). I have both disabled. I was referring to TCP stickiness, though my only attempt to test it was using HTTP over TCP. I've mentally ruled out the new stickiness feature as the problem because I

Re: jmeter + amazon ec2 + load balancing (elb)

2010-04-21 Thread William Oberman
Brett: just so you know, I started a thread over in AWS's forums on this issue: https://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/message.jspa?messageID=175221#175221 No one has responded yet. If anything comes up, I'll reply here (and add to the wiki). will On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:37 AM,

Re: jmeter + amazon ec2 + load balancing (elb)

2010-04-21 Thread chaitanya bhatt
Or using a IP spoofing tool at the client side should server the purpose during load tests. -Chaitanya M Bhatt On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:07 PM, William Oberman ober...@gmail.com wrote: Brett: yes, I saw amazon recently added two levels of stickiness (load balancer, and application). I have

Re: jmeter + amazon ec2 + load balancing (elb)

2010-04-21 Thread Brett Cave
Thanks Will, checking it out now. Mine is on http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=45411tstart=0, where some viable solutions are being discussed. on our internal network, we used IPVS (userspace tool = ipvsadm) with ldirector. This has a number of schedulers for use