WGCap: A synthetic trace generation tool for capacity planning of virtual server environments

Author

Galindo, Hugo E S ; Guedes, Erica A C ; Maciel, Paulo R M ; Silva, Bruno ; Galdino, Sérgio M L

Author_Institution

Centro de Inf., Univ. Fed. de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

fYear

2010

fDate

10-13 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

2094

Lastpage

2101

Abstract

This paper describes the development and use of an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) for a synthetic trace generator named WGCap (Workload Generator for Capacity Advisor). The WGCap GUI generates traces to be imported into the Capacity Advisor, a capacity planning tool inside the HP Virtual Server Environment - VSE, for simulating the consumption of resources like CPU demand, memory size, disk data rate and network data rate. The workload generation acts in a flexible way, allowing the generation of workloads based on actual traces or on a significant set of probability distributions and statistical summaries.

Keywords

Internet; file servers; graphical user interfaces; probability; GUI; VSE; WGCap; Workload Generator for Capacity Advisor; capacity planning; interactive graphical user interface; probability distribution; synthetic trace generation tool; virtual server environment; Capacity planning; Generators; Graphical user interfaces; Kernel; Measurement; Probability distribution; Servers; Synthetic trace generation; capacity planning; random variates;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems Man and Cybernetics (SMC), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6586-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641705

Filename

5641705