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Benchmarking the Performance of Hypervisors on Different Workloads

Authors:
Devi Prasad Bhukya
Carlos Gonçalves
Diogo Gomes
Rui Aguiar

Keywords: Virtualization; DOE; Full Factorial Design; Main Effect; Interaction Effect

Abstract:
Many organizations rely on a heterogeneous set of applications in virtual environment to deliver critical services to their customers. Different workloads utilize system resources at different levels. Depending on the resource utilization pattern some workloads may be better suited for hosting on a virtual platform. This paper discusses a framework for benchmarking the performance of Oracle database workloads, such as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Web load and Email on two hypervisors, namely Xen and VMware. Further, Design of Experiments (DOE) is used to identify the significance of input parameters, and their overall effect on two hypervisors, which provides a quantitative and qualitative comparative analysis to customers with high degree of accuracy to choose the right hypervisor for their workload in datacenters.

Pages: 622 to 626

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: October 12, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-367-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 12, 2014 to October 16, 2014