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Before scheduling/triggering the test cycles, we need to raise a request for infrasturcture. Let me explain what it is and why we need it or you can also ask dont we have a infrasturcture? Yes, we do have infrastructure available but with which functional/regression test cases can be executed as these wont need much concurrency. As for perofrmance testing, it requires more than 500 concurrency should be available to run performance test. Luanching the 500 VMs(Virtual Machines) and keeping the cloud up & running costs billions. So, before scheduling the performance test, we need to send request to prepare infrastructure. To do the same, please expand "Provisioning Infrastructure for the Performance Test Cycle" and click on checkbox "Provision infrastructure immediately" and select desired concurrency. You will receive an email once the infrastructure is ready by providing email address(s) in "Email Recepients" field. Once the action on schedule is performed, you can see test cycle is created and test runs are in Queued state.

Notes: Please note the below points while you are scheduling the performance batch

1. It will take around 5 min for the runs to show up in Queued State and half an hour for pre-processing to be completed.
2. Check pre-processing checkbox to pre-process your tests immedaitly
3. Future scheduling for performance is not available as of now because performance test needs infrastructure to be up