- Title
- Performance Effects of Concurrent Virtual Machine Execution in VMware Workstation 6
- Creator
- Barnett, Richard J
- Creator
- Irwin, Barry V W
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2009
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/429966
- Identifier
- vital:72655
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3660-5_56
- Description
- The recent trend toward virtualized computing both as a means of serv-er consolidation and as a powerful desktop computing tool has lead into a wide variety of studies into the performance of hypervisor products. This study has investigated the scalability of VMware Workstation 6 on the desktop platform. We present comparative performance results for the concurrent execution of a number of virtual machines. A through statistical analysis of the performance results highlights the perfor-mance trends of different numbers of concurrent virtual machines and concludes that VMware workstation can scale in certain contexts. We find that there are different performance benefits dependant on the ap-plication and that memory intensive applications perform less effective-ly than those applications which are IO intensive. We also find that run-ning concurrent virtual machines offers a significant performance de-crease, but that the drop thereafter is less significant.
- Format
- 4 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering
- Relation
- Barnett, R.J. and Irwin, B., 2009. Performance Effects of Concurrent Virtual Machine Execution in VMware Workstation 6. In Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering (pp. 329-333). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
- Relation
- Advanced Techniques in Computing Sciences and Software Engineering volume 2009 number 1 329 333 2009 978-90-481-3660-5
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