diff --git a/rally-scenarios/extra/instance_dd_test.sh b/rally-scenarios/extra/instance_dd_test.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..08872b6521
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rally-scenarios/extra/instance_dd_test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+time_seconds(){ (time -p $1 ) 2>&1 |awk '/real/{print $2}'; }
+file=/tmp/test.img
+c=1000 #1GB
+write_seq_1gb=$(time_seconds "dd if=/dev/zero of=$file bs=1M count=$c")
+read_seq_1gb=$(time_seconds "dd if=$file of=/dev/null bs=1M")
+[ -f $file ] && rm $file
+
+echo "{
+    \"write_seq_1gb\": $write_seq_1gb,
+    \"read_seq_1gb\": $read_seq_1gb
+    }"
diff --git a/tests_ci/rally-gate.sh b/tests_ci/rally-gate.sh
index ff8d8a2d02..c20367a945 100755
--- a/tests_ci/rally-gate.sh
+++ b/tests_ci/rally-gate.sh
@@ -17,13 +17,25 @@
 PROJECT=`echo $ZUUL_PROJECT | cut -d \/ -f 2`
 SCENARIO=$BASE/new/$PROJECT/rally-scenarios/${RALLY_SCENARIO}.yaml
 PLUGINS_DIR=$BASE/new/$PROJECT/rally-scenarios/plugins
+EXTRA_DIR=$BASE/new/$PROJECT/rally-scenarios/extra
 
 if [ -d $PLUGINS_DIR ]; then
  mkdir -p ~/.rally/plugins/scenarios
- cp $PLUGINS_DIR/*.py ~/.rally/plugins/scenarios/
+ cp -r $PLUGINS_DIR/*.py ~/.rally/plugins/scenarios/
+fi
+
+if [ -d $EXTRA_DIR ]; then
+ mkdir -p ~/.rally/extra
+ cp -r $EXTRA_DIR/* ~/.rally/extra/
 fi
 
 rally use deployment --name devstack
+rally deployment check
+rally show flavors
+rally show images
+rally show networks
+rally show secgroups
+rally show keypairs
 rally -v task start --task $SCENARIO
 mkdir rally-plot
 rally task plot2html --out rally-plot/results.html