Quantifying the performance isolation properties of virtualization systems

In this paper, we present the design of a performance isolation benchmark that quantifies the degree to which a virtualization system limits the impact of a misbehaving virtual machine on other well-behaving virtual machines running on the same physical machine. Our test suite includes six different stress tests - a CPU intensive test, a memory intensive test, a disk intensive test, two network intensive tests (send and receive) and a fork bomb. We describe the design of our benchmark suite and present results of testing three flavors of virtualization systems

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: EXPCS
• Authors: Jeanna Neefe Matthews, Wenjin Hu, Madhujith Hapuarachchi, Todd Deshane, Demetrios Dimatos, Gary Hamilton, Michael McCabe, James Owens
• Keywords: CPU Intensive Test, EXPCS 2007, Intensive Tests, Memory Intensive Test, Theoretical Computer Science