Simulating Bandwidth and Packet Loss Using Vmware Player

Vmware Player Emulation Tip When I’m asked to baseline or troubleshoot an application, the topic of how the application will behave at remote sites comes up. Some people make the mistake of testing an application in the lab and expecting the same performance in the field for remote sites. The problem with that approach is that the real world has variables you can’t account for in the lab. For example there is packet loss and different bandwidth for remote sites. When I get advance notice, I will bring my WAN emulator along. But in this case the client sprung this on me while troubleshooting and baselining. Luckily they were using VMWARE Workstation so we can use the Vmware Player (http://tinyurl.com/y97njgfm). I showed them that in the Network adapter settings, they can modify the bandwidth and packet loss parameters to emulate the network conditions they expect.

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