Unsupported and deprecated features

This section provides information about features and technologies that are not available in the current release, or whose support was partially or fully discontinued, or will be discontinued in future versions of LoadRunner Enterprise.

Unsupported features

While most of the features defined in previous versions are displayed and work in the same way in the current release, the below features are not available or fully implemented:

Feature Comments

ALM integration

As a result of decoupling from ALM, there is no direct integration between LoadRunner Enterprise and ALM. LoadRunner Enterprise does however integrate with ALM using VAPI-XP. For details, see Integrate with ALM using VAPI-XP.

This means that connectivity from UFT One (through ALM) is not supported. LoadRunner Enterprise does still integrate directly with VuGen and Analysis.

Cloud hosts

Credits reports and calculations have been deprecated.

Database

LoadRunner Enterprise can only work with a single database server. As a result, all project schemas must be located on the same database server.

Define Target IP addresses

Defining IP addresses to use as a target for performance testing is not supported.

Elastic Dockerized hosts

  • Elastic Dockerized Controller hosts are not supported.

  • Monitoring orchestrator metrics using the Heapster Server (for Kubernetes) is no longer supported.

  • When migrating a project that contains tests using Dockerized hosts, only the Orchestration configurations are migrated; the path to your updated Docker images must be redefined. For details and suggested resolution, see Notes and limitations.

File repository

  • The file repository for each project is located under the same root folder with a fixed structure.

  • A distributed file repository is not supported.

For details, see Project repository.

Multilingual user interface The Russian language pack is not supported.
Monitors The Oracle Database monitor is not supported and was removed from the monitors list.
Offline results

Offline results are not displayed for runs from versions of LoadRunner Enterprise earlier than 2021 R2.

Projects

  • Direct migration from ALM is no longer supported. Instead, you must first migrate ALM projects to LoadRunner Enterprise 2023, and then upgrade to the latest LoadRunner Enterprise version.

  • The following entities are not supported when migrating projects from Performance Center 12.6x to LoadRunner Enterprise:

    • Event log, Audit (for all projects, LAB, and Site Admin)

    • Cloud accounts and templates

    • Roles and permissions

    • LDAP servers

  • Project history data is not supported. All relevant historical audit data is in the original project's schema.

Reports

  • All cloud reports were removed except for the Cloud Operations report.

  • Cloud and Docker usage data is now centralized under the Elastic Cloud Utilization and Elastic Docker Utilization reports.

For details, see Reports.

Service Virtualization

The Service Virtualization integration as it existed until 12.63 is not supported.

Instead, you can monitor Service Virtualization resources during the test run by adding Service Virtualization monitors. For details, see Service Virtualization monitor.

Template projects

The ALM template projects feature is not supported.

User-defined fields (UDF)

UDFs are not supported.

Note:

  • UDF data is still migrated from earlier versions to LoadRunner Enterprise as part of the migration process (support is planned for this feature in an upcoming version).

  • The default UDFs appearing in the schema during the creation of ALM Lab or projects are migrated. If additional columns were added to a project, only the columns up to the number listed in parenthesis below are migrated:

    • For Projects: Test (24), Test instance (24), Runs (12), Test Set (6)

    • For Lab: Project Properties (4), Host (5)

Version control

LoadRunner Enterprise does not currently support version control. As a result, only the latest checked in tests and scripts from ALM are migrated to LoadRunner Enterprise.

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Removed support for technologies

The following product technology versions are no longer supported by their vendors. To align with this, LoadRunner Enterprise no longer supports these technologies:

System Component Product Versions No support
Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 From LoadRunner Enterprise version 2021 R2

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Removed features

LoadRunner Enterprise no longer supports these features:

Feature No support

Remote Installation

From LoadRunner Enterprise 24.1

Topology

From LoadRunner Enterprise 24.1

Application Under Test

From LoadRunner Enterprise 24.1

Swarm orchestration type

From LoadRunner Enterprise 24.1

NV Global Library service

From LoadRunner Enterprise 24.1

Note: This means that you cannot access the NV Global Library service from any version of LoadRunner Enterprise, current and past.

Google Analytics

From LoadRunner Enterprise 24.1

Direct migration from ALM to LoadRunner Enterprise

From LoadRunner Enterprise 24.1

TruClient for IE

  • TruClient for IE has been deprecated and you can no longer run tests that include TruClient IE scripts.

  • Creating and editing TruClient IE scripts

 

From LoadRunner Enterprise 2023 R1

 

From LoadRunner Enterprise 2023

TruClient Standalone

From LoadRunner Enterprise 2023

Load Test System Resource graphs

From LoadRunner Enterprise 2022

Note: These graphs were replaced by the Infrastructure Testing monitor graph.

CloudBurst load generators From LoadRunner Enterprise 2022

Dynatrace AppMon monitor

From LoadRunner Enterprise version 2021 R2
SNMP monitor From LoadRunner Enterprise version 2021 R2

PAL (Performance Application Lifecycle)

From LoadRunner Enterprise version 2020
Diagnostics integration From LoadRunner Enterprise version 2020

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Planned future removal of functionality

The following information provides advance notice of functionality that will be removed in a future version of LoadRunner Enterprise.

Feature No support
Silk Performance scripts From LoadRunner Enterprise version 25.1

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