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DeNamiK Loadgen 1.1 Available For Download On Thincomputing.net

Monday, 14 May 2007 by Michel Roth

About a year ago, DeNamik released DeNamiK Loadgen 1.0 at BriForum 2006 in Washington. A couple of months ago DeNamiK released version 1.1 which now also is available for download on Thincomputing.net, courtesy of DeNamik. Remember, it's free for up to 150 users!

DeNamiK LoadGen is an application that allows you to perform mass stress/load testing of your Citrix environments. DeNamiK Loadgen is meant to be a viable alternative to the CSTK (Citrix Server Test Kit). I've used it a lot and I can tell you: it is. One thing that I get asked about a lot and something that you need to be aware of is that DeNamiK Loadgen is a tool that makes it very easy to connect to your Citrix, Terminal Server or Provision Networks farm. It even creates the Active Directory users for you. What is does not do for you, is create the user-action scripts. So if you want simulate users going at it in Word and Outlook, you have to script that for yourself. You can use your favorite tool to do this, but you have to do this for yourself. DeNamiK revealed to Thincomputing.net that they are working on a tool that will dramatically simplify creating your own user-action scripts but this tool is still under development. This will probably be in version 1.2.

If you want to see how DeNamiK LoadGen looks and works, take a look at this Thincomputing.net Premo I did on Loadgen 1.0 last September. There were some things in version 1.0 that were kind of a pain. One of these things was the licensing hassle you had to go through in order to get the product working and keep it working. After harassing the lead developer for DeNamiK, Daniel Nicolic, about it, he decided to move to a new licensing mechanism which has been implemented in version 1.1. Another feature that makes it really cool is that it supports RDP. So you can loadtest your plain Terminal Server farms as well. Other new features in version 1.1 are:

Native Provision Networks support
Vista LoadBot Support
More control of the individual client LoadBots
Support for .NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0
An online check for updates;
Dozens of minor usability improvements and bugfixes

Download DeNamiK Loadgen 1.1 from the download section.