When parameterizing data, how do I not use the same data more than once in a test?

@mark thank you for this topic. I have already arranged VUs in my test to be unique as was required for our platform performance testing.

The last point that I can’t get it’s how to distribute VUs uniqueness when multiple instances (e.g load generators) are raised. :thinking:

Initially, we need to mimic 3K unique users, but currently started from 500, so following the context of 500 users and as I understand, as soos as my cloud test will reach out 300 VUs - it will be raised the second insntance which will start generating duplicated VU IDs.

How to correctly make the calculation?
let uniqueNum = ((__VU * maxIter) - (maxIter) + (__ITER) + (80000 * __ENV["LI_INSTANCE_ID"])); - can’t relate this formula for my test.

For instance, we have to run 500 VU’s(unique accounts, where email has index from 1 to 500) for 1 hour, I don’t know how many iterations it will be, also I don’t know the ID of “LI_INSTANCE_ID”?