Back in November 2008 we got a phone call from our long-time customers at EMC Documentum. They were going to attempt a very large load test pushing their solution scalability to 10-times their normal volume. This would be an absolutely huge test for the Documentum system and they believed that it would be the world’s largest Enterprise Content Management (ECM) benchmark ever to succeed.

Of course they wanted LoadRunner to run 100,000 virtual users. And they needed lots and lots of HP hardware and storage.

So, we’ve got some good friends up in the Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center and we all got together to deliver this massive test. And recently we published all the results and a cool video that explains how the testing was accomplished.

Check out the EMC benchmark results here!

The surprising thing to us was the LoadRunner Controller performance on the latest HP commodity hardware. It did really well at running 50k vusers and probably more than that if we had more memory. Also, when you consider the whole system they were testing it didn’t take much hardware at all to deliver sub-second performance for 100k user load. And don’t forget – the database was SQL Server 2008, the latest release from Microsoft. You can see a picture of the 64 CPU’s on the SQL database Craig’s blog.

Congrats EMC and SQL Server…it’s nice to see super scalable systems in action!