Broadcom Service Virtualization Scalability

SR
Service Virtualization Architect at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

We have a closed set of people in our organization who are using this product. 

This solution has been consumed by a wide variety of projects. 

We have approximately 30 users who are using it.

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it_user558456 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Architect at American family insurance

In terms of individual usage, it is a one-user, one-license model. On the performance side of the usage, it is pretty much decent enough where we are able to put in low levels of total users and again with the feature of authorizing IPs.

Technically, you can scale it up to a point where you have your IP stability. So, scalability-wise, from the performance aspect of it, we never have any complaints on that. We just needed to have the infrastructure to support it.

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DM
Senior Project Manager at Infosys

It should be scalable.

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Senior Staffing Engineer at Qualcomm Incorporated

We are able to quickly scale our requests. We have tested across thousands of requests. We have had no problems so far.

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JS
Senior Engineer at American Express

It is pretty scalable.

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it_user558429 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Manager - Service Virtualisation at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have had no issues with the scalability. We've scaled it probably bigger than most customers, to be honest. The biggest challenge I've had is upgrading. We're on a pretty old version. It is a big leap. It takes a lot of effort to upgrade to the next one. Versions 8, 9, and beyond, I'm told are very easy to upgrade to. We're on 7, 7.5. It has taken a lot of time and effort for me to get off that version and onto a support base that I can take. That's the biggest challenge I have.

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it_user345570 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Automation Tech Lead at Nike

It seems to be scalable, but we don’t know to what extent. For my testing needs, the solution has been fine, but I’m not sure from an enterprise perspective. I’ve been at Nike for two years and used to be just a Java developer.

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it_user453096 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Development Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We just haven't ramped the Release Automation up high enough to know. Certainly the concepts of how it's designed seem good. With Service Virtualization the performance has definitely been handy in some spots for the kind of capability. Both of them have been scalable, I'm not aware of any real concerns regarding the scalability.

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it_user572823 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP Quality Assurance at GM Financial

It's able to scale. It's easy to scale CA Service Virtualization because of the way the services can be placed onto a platform. You could have a couple of services running on one server and if you have a high demand, you could put them on another server. You're able to have many services running across the organization. They don't have to be co-located.

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SB
Manager, Testing & Quality Assurance with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is the next factor we have to judge, because this system has to handle a large amount of load, so we'll have to see what the scalability is going to be. But based on the reviews and research, we think it's going to be as per of our expectations.

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it_user560256 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Admin at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product has scaled to our needs.

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it_user558006 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are in the financial industry and process a large number of transactions. Every second, we process around 78,000 transactions; every second counts. Sometimes, especially when the servers are down, our message queues will accumulate hundreds of thousands of messages. When the issue is resolved and the gates are open, all those messages will flood the system. We tested all these things with CA Performance Testing. In real time, we cannot test using Service Virtualization, but we built all the messages, and the message queues, and we tested by opening the gates. We found that scalability is also pretty good.

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it_user108438 - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

No, the product allows for great scalability.

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it_user328938 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's great. Basically, it's designed so that we have a load balancing virtual service environment, so we can scale it up as much as we need to.

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it_user348210 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Good. It was part of our POC in which we made sure it would scale to fit our environment. It was our criteria in why we chose CA over other vendors.

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it_user521982 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technology Manager - Digital Channel Technology at Wells Fargo

Stability’s one area that needs work; it's good, but the challenge is that scaling at a very high level is slightly problematic at this point in time. It meets our requirements so far, but I think they need to improve it.

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it_user558597 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior VP at Citi

The product is scalable.

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it_user558651 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Program Manager at Infosys

This product is very scalable.

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NP
Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

This solution is scalable, but it also relies on the stability factor.

If the client wants to add a new component or new hardware, it can be done, but for how long will it be stable? It will not be stable. 

I'll add it to a new sequence in the virtual environment. When it's added, the port will not display and we have to reset everything.

After everything is added there is a new challenge. With the amount of data that it has to handle it causes memory leak issues. The memory accumulation usually happens and then it gets stopped, then has to be restarted. 

Stability is still a huge issue. In one way we have a solution that scales, with provisions that are easy for scaling, but the stability is not there.

It's scalable, but as you scale you will encounter stability issues.

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it_user797958 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Solutions Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It is definitely scalable. The licenses that we have purchased, we have not utilized them fully. However, given our conversations with the CA product team and the use cases that we have outlined for them, we are pretty confident that it is scalable.

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it_user558162 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Engineer II at GM Financial

The scalability is good. We are still new with it, but in terms of scalability, it is working right as it's supposed to.

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it_user378147 - PeerSpot reviewer
SOA Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

There have been no issues scaling it.

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it_user779277 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Product Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It does scale up.

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it_user40593 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Quality Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It scales wonderfully. We've scaled it from doing isolated projects, one or two projects in terms of our pilots and proof of concepts, to putting it in an organization as an enterprise solution going across huge organizations with millions of hits to the actual platform.

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it_user174312 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Director at Bridgetree

No, as compared to competitors, studies have shown that CA seems more scalable, although for the average consumer of the products, they are all head-to-head.

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RE
Test Manager - DevOps at a maritime company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Very scalable. It's a strong framework, stable and scalable in a really good session.

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it_user349494 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of QA with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not gone down the scalability path yet, but hopefully next year we will when it becomes relevant.

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it_user406194 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. SDLC Architect at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

One of the requirements that we had early on was the ability to handle high transaction rates. Our target was 700 transactions a second. We were just able to prove with our mix of services over 750 so very, very comfortable.

This is one development group. We have lots of different groups that are standing at the doorway to get in. It's a very exciting time.

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it_user367368 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's scalable in terms of running a performance test because it supports limited virtual users.

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it_user350112 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mobile QE Tech Lead at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We haven't done so yet, but we're hoping it will be scalable.

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it_user355620 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT Manager - Non-Prod Environments at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We've been running one server for a couple years now. This year we've decided to spread our wings a little, and we're going to procure four more. It can replicate one setup on all five servers, or replicate five different setups, one on each.

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it_user349413 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Cerner Corporation

We’re still in the baby steps of implementation, but with the teams we have, we can write one service that multiple teams can use. As we continue to grow, we know we can write one thing that multiple teams can use and it will grow with us.

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FD
Senior Software Architecht at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

The idea of Virtual Service Environments (VSE) makes the product extremely scalable. Especially with the use of containers, you won't have concerns about resource wastage.

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it_user349413 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Cerner Corporation

We spread it out across, I think, 12 different teams using it right now, and no problems.

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it_user558240 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Applications Development at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is the reason I rated it as 8/10. We’re going through some challenges with scalability right now. CA is helping us to get through that.

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Advisor, App Development at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've started a little slow. There are just a couple of teams that are using CA Service Virtualization, so we have not really scaled it up for multiple teams across the organization. But within our group, there are like 3 or 4 teams that are using it right now.

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it_user570957 - PeerSpot reviewer
SME Subject Matter Expert at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We did not encounter any issues with scalability.

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it_user378339 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

There have been no issues scaling the solution.

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it_user212238 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

There was a memory leak in LISA 7.0.3 that would eventually require the rebooting of the memory to free back up the available memory. I have not yet been able to test DevTest 8.01 at that level to see if the memory leak still exists.

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it_user533106 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Manager at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I don’t remember any issues as such, apart from the ones mentioned in the room for improvement section.

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RM
Senior Software Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user518724 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. DevOps Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user378432 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Analyst at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees

There were no issues with the scalability.

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it_user378420 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation/Service Virtualisation Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

There have been no issues scaling it.

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it_user355623 - PeerSpot reviewer
Environment Support Manager Non-Production Environment at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It depend on how much you're willing to spend and how large your company is. We have 5 servers and it's scaled just fine for us. In a presentation I went to, American Airlines has 50 servers and it's scaled just fine for them.

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it_user222276 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Triggering multiple requests sometimes increases the response time even though loadbalancers are used.

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it_user558267 - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisor Applications Programming at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of scalability, we're just getting started so we're just going through examples. CA is on site and they are taking us through the process. We haven't really gotten into the scale end too much. We are just taking small chunks and proving the concept.

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it_user778749 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer Manager at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

The hiccups we experienced were mostly to do with scalability.

There are multiple protocols that we actually work on, like HTTP, HTTPS and then MQ and TCP. HTTP and HTTPS were fairly basic, and we were able to get things done pretty efficiently. When it came to MQ and TCP, we came across a lot of challenges. That's when we got CA engaged and they helped us fine tune the tool itself so that we could reach the scale that we wanted to.

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it_user104979 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Lead at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

Right now we're only using it for pre-production so we haven't yet seen how it scales if we use it for production volumes.

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it_user558564 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager & System Architect, Abilities Lab at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

It's scaled to meet all of our needs so far.

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it_user276375 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Automation Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We experienced some minor issues, but they've been fixed in the current release.

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it_user351063 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It really isn't scalable, other than the licensing. We can pretty much test away and we can easily clone services if one group needs a slightly different variation.

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it_user558318 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior QA Engineer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're not using it. We are using it in a QA group, and so it's a pretty small adoption right now. We're trying to increase that.

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it_user227256 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No issues with scalability of service.

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it_user224907 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues with scalability.

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it_user511368 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Enginer in Test at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user227262 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Test Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We didn't have any issues with scalabilty, but CA has a perfect community where all of their users can find the information needed.

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it_user226335 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Performance Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Right now we're only using it for pre-production, so we haven't yet seen how it scales if we use it for production volumes.

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it_user797919 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at ProKarma

It's very scalable. The server, we've actually scaled it up quite a bit. One of the projects I was on, we were running thousands of tests, and the server wasn't really set up to handle that. So, we increased the amount of coordinators, and RAM, and processing power. And, just by making those small changes, we were easily able to scale to, like, thousands and thousands of tests. I'm happy with the scalability.

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it_user778797 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is scalable. We actually use it for both functional and performance purposes. In the functional area, it actually works pretty well. In the performance area, we do not know where the limit is at this point of time. So far, it has actually worked well and we are able to bring it to multiple environments. Therefore, I would say it is pretty scalable at this point of time.

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it_user551499 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, QA Practice at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There is a scalability issue regarding licenses. The Developer Edition should be free and only charge for the hosting licenses. There are charges even for transactions and hits also, which makes it difficult to track usage and optimization.

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it_user558345 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enginer at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It seems to be that we'll be able to scale it, as we get more into this tool and other CA tools. It seems like we're able to build one top of the other.

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it_user378402 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We did not encounter any major problems with scaling it.

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it_user379734 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've had no issues scaling it.

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it_user349302 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We haven’t really tested it at scale. All of our work has been at the single-team level.

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it_user350667 - PeerSpot reviewer
App Dev Manager at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I haven’t had any issues scaling, so it seems it works well as we grow.

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it_user142806 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation QA Specialist at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
it_user693234 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Product Officer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

CA Service Virtualization provides impressive scaling abilities.

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it_user112830 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Lead with 1,001-5,000 employees

No, it was expanded to support multiple teams.

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it_user558483 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We haven't upgraded to any new versions, so we have been using the same platform. I don't really have an opinion about that yet.

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it_user516042 - PeerSpot reviewer
SOA Test and Service Virtualization Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user388563 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Quality Assurance Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not had any issues scaling it.

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it_user570960 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lisa Virtualization Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We haven’t had much issues with scalability, but when I did once, the support team was very helpful in resolving the issue.

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it_user224853 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Sometimes during load testing even though we have enough space on the server, CA SV is not able to handle higher loads. (We are still working on this issue. Root cause has not yet been identified.)

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it_user225759 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user638730 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Test Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees