Lab overview: ExtremeLabs has two facilities, a test site in Bloomington, Indiana, and a NOC housed at nFrame in Carmel Indiana. Henderson and his organization perform large organization product test, investor due diligence, and systems emulation for software QA testing.
Equipment in the lab:
Servers
240+ cores in 16, 8, and 4 core servers from HP, Dell, Apple, Tyan, and Sun; All AMD and Intel multi-core. Hypervisors supported: VMWare, Citrix XenServer, Xen core, KVM, and Hyper-V.
SAN
15TB Compellent iSCSI and FC-based SAN, progressive from 10K thru 15Krpm to SSD drives
Workstations
• Dell, HP, Compaq and Apple hardware in various configurations
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Networking
• 100mbps 5-peer backbone core through 1/10GB Layer 2/3 switches, along with several GB Layer 2/3 switches
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Analyzers
• Fluke and self-made traffic analyzers
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Software in the lab:
Licensed Use Benchmarks
• Bapco
• Spec
• I/OMeter
• others
Operating Systems Support
• Windows 98, 98SE, 2000 Advanced Server, 2000 Pro, 2003, 2008 R2, XP
• Linux RH, SUSE, CentOS, uBuntu Cloud Services
• MacOS 10.X
• Solaris 10
Directory Service Support
• Microsoft AD
• OpenLDAP
Personnel:
• Tom Henderson, principal
• Brendan Allen, researcher
• ExtremeLabs, Inc. contracts staff on a project-by-project basis.
Lab specific URLs:
• http://www.extremelabs.com
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