virtualization benchmark suites

[Itamar Heim]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: project-planning-bounces at ovirt.org
[mailto:project-planning-bounces at ovirt.org] On Behalf Of Michael D
> Day
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 0:02 AM
> To: project-planning at ovirt.org
> Subject: virtualization benchmark suites
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I spoke with several financial customers interested in KVM earlier this
week and two topics we discussed
> were KVM benchmarking and the oVirt community. Two of the customers
suggested that we contribute
> benchmarking suites to oVirt as projects, and that we form a
benchmarking community under oVirt.
> 
> IBM has successfully contributed a benchmark called DayTrader to the
Apache foundation and formed a
> community around that benchmark, which tests middleware using
transaction and networking workloads.
> 
> I'm not proposing DayTrader. But IBM does have some distributed
benchmarks that may be interesting to the
> community. And others of you probably also have similar test suites.
> 
> What is the group's feeling about benchmarking projects? If there's
interest I'll pursue things on our end
> (no promises). But I think this is good feedback from our customers and
am interested to hear comments on
> the idea.

How would that differentiate from specvirt?

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
> Mike Day
> IBM Distinguished Engineer
> Chief Virtualization Architect, Open Systems Development
> Cell: +1 919 371-8786 | mdday at us.ibm.com
> http://code.ncultra.org