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LoadRunner to Performance Center Migration An Objective Analysis of Migration Options White paper Introduction 2 Overview of the LoadRunner Product 2 Overview of the Performance Center Product 2 Benefits of Performance Center 3 Migration from LoadRunner to Performance Center 4 Strategies 4 Side By Side Migration 4 Gradual Migration 4 Automated Structured Migration 5 Asset Migration Considerations 5 Resource Considerations 6 Conclusion 6 Introduction This document examines the choices and decision-making process involved in migrating from a LoadRunner strategy to a Performance Center strategy. This analysis includes a discussion of the LoadRunner and Performance Center products, an explanation of the benefits of Performance Center, and presents the common strategies that can be used to migrate from one setup to the other. Although LoadRunner is an industry-leading performance testing tool and its usage and setup are widely known, the additional benefits of a Performance Center installation can leverage many of the known benefits of LoadRunner across multiple areas of a customer’s business. Factors such as usage, expected growth, current setup, and direction of the company are not addressed in this document but must be considered when making this investment. Overview of LoadRunner LoadRunner is an application set that provides businesses a way to reliably simulate the load of multiple users against their given application. LoadRunner emulates hundreds of thousands of concurrent users to apply production workloads to almost any client platform or environment. LoadRunner stresses an application from end to end applying consistent, measurable, and repeatable loads. It then uses the data to identify scalability issues that can affect real users in production. As it drives load against the system, LoadRunner captures end-user response times for key business processes and transactions to determine whether an organization can meet its service-level agreements (SLAs). Non-in