How to generate load on IIS?

Question

I want to start using load balancers, database replication and sharding, cloud computing. I know I can follow many tutorials, that's no problem, but I don't know how to generate sufficient traffic to load the web server. I want to see my test application working really slow and then apply some scaling techniques.

Q How can I generate huge load on my local IIS server? What tools can I use?

PS if it will help I want to use RESTful WCF service and No SQL DB/Cloud storage for a test app

Answer 1

There was a great tool from microsoft called webstress. They removed it from their servers, but I managed to find it and placed it here .

From my memory, it can do log/replay traffic, multiple machine generating requests, has decent reporting capabilities....

EDIT:

Friend found out another one: http://seleniumhq.org/

Answer 2

You can use jMeter to record operations and orchestrate load on one or many clients. It requeres some setup but is both flexible and powerfull.

http://jmeter.apache.org/

Answer 3

I would use Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition for doing Load Tests .

The are also many other documents and articles on if you google it.

Answer 4

There are several tools available, here are a couple of free ones:

• JMeter
• Grinder

Although these are both java tools, you can use them to generate load directed at IIS

Answer 5

我没有广泛使用它，但是SoapUI和LoadUI可以很好地协同工作。