DocumentCode :
3506649
Title :
Performance Evaluation of Oracle VM Server Virtualization Software 64 Bit Linux Environment
Author :
Tope, Ibidokun Emmanuel ; Zavarsky, Pavol ; Ruhl, Ron ; Lindskog, Dale
Author_Institution :
Inf. Syst. Security Dept., Concordia Univ. Coll. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
fYear :
2011
fDate :
21-21 Sept. 2011
Firstpage :
51
Lastpage :
57
Abstract :
Server virtualization has created some growing problems and disorder, such as unresponsive virtualized system, crashed virtualized server, misconfigured virtual hosting platforms, performance tuning and erratic performance metrics with some benchmark tools. This research analyzed the performance of Oracle VM server virtualization software against that of bare-metal server environment. It also examined scalability offered by Oracle VM and its operation for supporting high volume transactions. Two open suite benchmark tools Swingbench and LMbench were used to measure performance. The Swingbench was also used to measure scalability. 30 and 50 active users were used for the performance evaluation. We discovered from our Swingbench results that Oracle database performance in a single Oracle VM resulted in 4% and 8% overhead for 30 and 50 active users respectively. Performance metrics of 75% and 87% were obtained with 30 and 50 active users correspondingly in dual Oracle VM server; an indication of performance scalability improvement with two virtual machines. Our results also revealed Oracle VM server achieved significant percentages in latency and bandwidth that cannot be neglected, despite some adrift results obtained from LMbench measurement.
Keywords :
Linux; virtual machines; virtualisation; LMbench; Oracle VM server virtualization software 64 bit Linux environment; Oracle database performance; Swingbench; bare-metal server environment; crashed virtualized server; erratic performance metrics; misconfigured virtual hosting platforms; performance evaluation; performance tuning; unresponsive virtualized system; virtual machines; Bandwidth; Databases; Hardware; Security; Servers; Software; Virtual machining; Availability; Bare-metal server; Oracle Database; Oracle VM server; Performance and scalability; Performance metric; Virtualization;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Security Measurements and Metrics (Metrisec), 2011 Third International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Banff, AB
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1245-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/Metrisec.2011.16
Filename :
6165763
Link To Document :
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