System requirements

This section provides the system requirements when integrating Network Virtualization with LoadRunner Professional or LoadRunner Enterprise.

Prerequisites

  • For LoadRunner Professional or LoadRunner Enterprise 2020 or later: LoadRunner Professional or LoadRunner Enterprise version 2020 must be installed before installing Network Virtualization version 2020.

  • For LoadRunner or Performance Center 12.60: LoadRunner or Performance Center version 12.60 must be installed before installing Network Virtualization version 9.14.

System requirements

Network Virtualization has the same system requirements as LoadRunner Professional or LoadRunner Enterprise, with the following exceptions:

Software requirements Supported versions/distributions
Prerequisites for NV for Load Generator on Linux

One of the following:

  • Azul Zulu OpenJDK v11 64-bit in NV 2022 R2 and later

  • Azul Zulu OpenJDK v8 64-bit in NV 2022 R1 and earlier

  • Oracle Java JRE v8 64-bit

Development tools to build kernel modules:

  • GCC

  • kernel-devel/linux-headers for the running kernel

  • ed editor

Note: In some cases, the following dependencies should be installed before installing Zulu-8 on Ubuntu: java-common, libasound2, libxi6, libxrender1, libxtst6, libfontconfig1.

See Installation instructions.
Firewall If a firewall is active, open port 8182 (or another port selected during installation) for TCP.

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