Infrastructure Scenario Tests

An HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 Plus triggers a thermal emergency via ILO when the HVAC system fails in the server room, with CPU temperatures approaching the shutdown threshold.

A Dell VxRail E660F node experiences a motherboard failure, removing compute and storage capacity from the vSAN cluster. The cluster enters a reduced state with lower fault tolerance.

A Dell PowerStore 5200 experiences an unexpected controller A failure, triggering automatic failover to controller B. During failover, all I/O is paused for 15 seconds, causing application-level errors.

A Dell EqualLogic PS6210 SAN group member experiences multiple disk failures in the same RAID set, taking a critical iSCSI volume offline and causing all VMs on that datastore to pause.

The iDRAC BMC on a Dell PowerEdge R750 becomes completely unresponsive after a firmware update failure, losing all out-of-band management capability for a critical database server.

All 85 Juniper Mist-managed APs lose connectivity to the Mist cloud dashboard after a rule change blocks the required outbound ports, leaving APs operational but unmanaged.

A Juniper MX480 border router experiences BGP session flapping with two upstream ISPs due to a line card memory error, causing route oscillation and intermittent internet connectivity for the entire organization.

A Juniper EX4300 virtual chassis of 4 members splits into two partitions when a VCP cable is severed during cable management, causing half the access ports to lose their trunk uplinks.

A Juniper SRX4600 chassis cluster experiences a split-brain condition when both fabric links fail simultaneously, causing both nodes to assume the primary role and creating duplicate gateways on the network.

The SonicWall TZ670 SD-WAN policy engine fails to detect WAN link degradation, continuing to route critical VoIP traffic over a congested ISP link instead of failing over to the backup MPLS circuit.

The SonicWall NSsp 13700 running carrier-grade NAT exhausts its NAT translation table, preventing new outbound connections while existing sessions remain active.

The SonicWall NSA 2700 DPI-SSL engine crashes under load, causing all HTTPS traffic to be dropped instead of bypassed, resulting in complete internet outage for 300 users.

A SonicWall TZ670 content filter policy update blocks access to a critical cloud accounting application by miscategorizing it as gambling/gaming, affecting all finance department workflows.

The PA-3260 URL filtering database becomes corrupted during an update, causing all web traffic to be categorized as 'not-resolved' and bypassing URL filtering policies entirely.

The PA-5250 WildFire cloud connection fails, causing all unknown file verdicts to default to 'allow' per policy. Potentially malicious files bypass inspection for 3 hours before detection.

Panorama loses connectivity to all 12 managed PA firewalls after a network change isolates the management VLAN. Firewalls continue forwarding but cannot receive policy updates or log to Panorama.

A Palo Alto threat prevention content update incorrectly classifies ERP traffic as a command-and-control callback pattern, blocking all employee access to the SAP ERP system.

The Palo Alto PA-5250 GlobalProtect gateway stops accepting new VPN connections after a configuration push corrupts the portal agent configuration. 400 remote workers cannot connect.

An administrator changes the Hyper-V virtual switch binding from the production NIC team to a single disconnected NIC. All 25 VMs on that virtual switch lose network connectivity instantly. The admin is locked out of remote management.

A Hyper-V host in a 3-node failover cluster experiences a blue screen of death. Failover clustering attempts to live-migrate VMs to surviving nodes but 4 highly available VMs fail to migrate due to anti-affinity rules and insufficient resources.