On the occasion a 10,000 Vuser test is needed, a term license can be applied for that time period of testing. Many times, 500 Vusers or less will reveal bottlenecks. It is a good idea to get the number of Vusers that match the highest peak hour concurrent users for 80% – 90% of your standard application portfolio. Smaller amounts of Vusers purchased at one time will be higher per Vuser than larger quantities. There is tiered pricing applied to the purchase of Vusers. For example, out of 500 Vusers, 200 could be put on one new Controller, leaving the remaining 300 on the existing Controller. This means that customers can split their Vusers between more than one Controller. The limitation on the number of Controllers has also been removed.
The pricing for the virtual users now includes the cost of the Controller. With the new licensing, the protocol bundles remain the same, but the fixed cost of the Controller has been removed. Here is a link to the latest list of protocol bundles in LoadRunner 12. For example:Ĭontroller + 500 Web Vusers + 500 RDP Vusers = $TOTAL
In either case, the cost of the software is additive when more than one protocol is needed. WEB 2.0, Oracle, and SAP are examples of this. These are basically a combination of three or more protocols for the price of two. The only exceptions to this rule would be the “super bundles”. For example:Ĭontroller (fixed $) + Web Vusers (variable $ based on # Vusers) = $TOTALĪlmost all of the protocol bundles (web, RDP, RIA, etc) are the same price. This means the total cost of the LoadRunner software was calculated using the fixed price of the Controller, with the variable pricing of the number of virtual users (and in some cases, the protocol type). The protocol bundle of the virtual users.The total number of concurrent virtual users.A fixed price for the Controller and all monitor capability.Under the old licensing, the pricing for LoadRunner was based on: There is no formal support from HP with this license. NET Vuser (Visual Studio Add-in), Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), VB.NET Vuser (Visual Studio Add-in). Template protocols include C, JAVA, JavaScript, VB and VB Script, C#/C++.NET and VB. This new bundle includes 50 Vusers, but it excludes Vusers for the GUI (UFT integration), COM/DCOM, and template protocols.
This replaces the old “Instant-on License” where HP LoadRunner would work with 10 users for a limited amount of time. Probably one of the biggest changes to the product is HP’s new “Community License Bundle”.