A performance study of web server based on Hardware-assisted Virtual Machine

Author

Shao, Zhiyuan ; Jin, Hai ; Zhang, De

Author_Institution

Services Comput. Technol. & Syst. Lab., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2009

fDate

10-13 May 2009

Firstpage

837

Lastpage

840

Abstract

With the resurgence of virtual machine technology, vendors build virtualization technology support in the processors. Virtual machines relying on such support are called Hardware-assisted Virtual Machines (HVM guests for short). Although HVM guests have the advantage that they do not need to revise the source code of operating systems running inside, the processing of I/O operations in HVM is much complicated and the performance of such operations are rather low. In this paper, we conduct a performance study on the Web server running inside the HVM guests by using queuing network modeling technique, and analyze the performance bottlenecks of the systems.

Keywords

file servers; operating systems (computers); queueing theory; virtual machines; Web server; hardware-assisted virtual machine; input-output operation; operating system; queuing network modeling technique; Application software; Application virtualization; Hardware; Operating systems; Performance analysis; Predictive models; Queueing analysis; Virtual machine monitors; Virtual machining; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Systems and Applications, 2009. AICCSA 2009. IEEE/ACS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rabat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3807-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3806-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AICCSA.2009.5069425

Filename

5069425