A stress testing exercise using LSS is typically performed right after the completion of the technical design and before taking the design into pilot. The design, with its supporting infrastructure, should be deployed in the lab environment for functional and nonfunctional testing first. You can then perform stress testing to validate capacity planning. Lync Server 2013 Stress and Performance Tool Overview For details about LSS, see . In summary, LSS provides the following: User Provisioning Tool (UserProvisioningTool.exe) to perform the following tasks: Create LSS Active Directory user objects. The user naming convention can be customized as needed, and the user objects index will be appended at the end of the user name. Enable LSS Active Directory user objects as Lync-enabled user. (Optional) Enable Enterprise Voice for the LSS Lync-enabled users with the defined phone area code prefix as a Line URI value. Modify contact lists of each individual LSS Lync-enabled users based on the defined parameters (average contacts per user, average contact groups per user, and federated/cross pool contacts percentage). Create LSS Active Directory distribution group objects and add LSS Lync-enabled users as members of those distribution groups based on the defined parameters. Generate CSV files to be utilized as input files for the E-911 Location Database, covering wireless access point, subnet, port, and switch network elements, and an XML file to be used when simulating LIS user loads. The process of populating the Location Database must be handled separately using the appropriate Lync Management Shell cmdlets. Load Configuration Tool (UserProfileGenerator.exe) to generate stress profiles (in the form of .xml files) and batch files to run the stress test, based on several input parameters covering the number of stress client machines, number of users to be simulated, and workloads to be included as part of the stress testing exercise. Lync Performance Tool (LyncPerfTool.exe) that will simulate user loads based on the stress profiles generated by Load Configuration Tool.
A stress testing exercise using LSS is typically performed right after the completion of the technical design and before taking the design into pilot. The design, with its supporting infrastructure, should be deployed in the lab environment for functional and nonfunctional testing first. You can then perform stress testing to validate capacity planning. Lync Server 2013 Stress and Performance Tool Overview For details about LSS, see . In summary, LSS provides the following: User Provisioning Tool (UserProvisioningTool.exe) to perform the following tasks: Create LSS Active Directory user objects. The user naming convention can be customized as needed, and the user objects index will be appended at the end of the user name. Enable LSS Active Directory user objects as Lync-enabled user. (Optional) Enable Enterprise Voice for the LSS Lync-enabled users with the defined phone area code prefix as a Line URI value. Modify contact lists of each individual LSS Lync-enabled users based on the defined parameters (average contacts per user, average contact groups per user, and federated/cross pool contacts percentage). Create LSS Active Directory distribution group objects and add LSS Lync-enabled users as members of those distribution groups based on the defined parameters. Generate CSV files to be utilized as input files for the E-911 Location Database, covering wireless access point, subnet, port, and switch network elements, and an XML file to be used when simulating LIS user loads. The process of populating the Location Database must be handled separately using the appropriate Lync Management Shell cmdlets. Load Configuration Tool (UserProfileGenerator.exe) to generate stress profiles (in the form of .xml files) and batch files to run the stress test, based on several input parameters covering the number of stress client machines, number of users to be simulated, and workloads to be included as part of the stress testing exercise. Lync Performance Tool (LyncPerfTool.exe) that will simulate user loads based on the stress profiles generated by Load Configuration Tool.