EVALUATING AND MODELING VIRTUALIZATION PERFORMANCE OVERHEAD FOR CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS

Nikolaus Huber, Marcel von Quast, Michael Hauck, Samuel Kounev

2011

Abstract

Due to trends like Cloud Computing and Green IT, virtualization technologies are gaining increasing importance. They promise energy and cost savings by sharing physical resources, thus making resource usage more efficient. However, resource sharing and other factors have direct effects on system performance, which are not yet well-understood. Hence, performance prediction and performance management of services deployed in virtualized environments like public and private Clouds is a challenging task. Because of the large variety of virtualization solutions, a generic approach to predict the performance overhead of services running on virtualization platforms is highly desirable. In this paper, we present experimental results on two popular state-of-the-art virtualization platforms, Citrix XenServer 5.5 and VMware ESX 4.0, as representatives of the two major hypervisor architectures. Based on these results, we propose a basic, generic performance prediction model for the two different types of hypervisor architectures. The target is to predict the performance overhead for executing services on virtualized platforms.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Huber N., von Quast M., Hauck M. and Kounev S. (2011). EVALUATING AND MODELING VIRTUALIZATION PERFORMANCE OVERHEAD FOR CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER, ISBN 978-989-8425-52-2, pages 563-573. DOI: 10.5220/0003388905630573

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closer11,
author={Nikolaus Huber and Marcel von Quast and Michael Hauck and Samuel Kounev},
title={EVALUATING AND MODELING VIRTUALIZATION PERFORMANCE OVERHEAD FOR CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,},
year={2011},
pages={563-573},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003388905630573},
isbn={978-989-8425-52-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - Volume 1: CLOSER,
TI - EVALUATING AND MODELING VIRTUALIZATION PERFORMANCE OVERHEAD FOR CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS
SN - 978-989-8425-52-2
AU - Huber N.
AU - von Quast M.
AU - Hauck M.
AU - Kounev S.
PY - 2011
SP - 563
EP - 573
DO - 10.5220/0003388905630573