Case Study: RackTop boosts release quality and accelerates its CI/CD pipeline with Virtana Storage Load Testing

RackTop improves performance validation and accelerates its CI/CD pipeline with Virtana

RackTop, a cyber‑secure enterprise storage vendor behind the BrickStor SP platform, faced a QA challenge: its home‑grown tools couldn’t simulate the large, concurrent NFS and SMB workloads needed to baseline performance and validate protocol compatibility, which led to field regressions and slowed quarterly releases. RackTop evaluated vendors and adopted Virtana’s Storage Load Testing to address these gaps.

Virtana’s Storage Load Testing let RackTop simulate many clients with heavy, repeatable workloads, collect thousands of metrics per second, and run automated test batteries against new builds (with fast onboarding and on‑site training). As a result, Virtana helped RackTop uncover bottlenecks, tune ARC and hardware choices, improve release quality, reduce rollbacks, and accelerate its CI/CD pipeline — with meaningful tests running within a week of deployment.

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Kurt Dean

Director of Engineering