Re: virtualization benchmark suites

On 09/22/2011 04:11 PM, Itamar Heim wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: project-planning-bounces(a)ovirt.org > [mailto:project-planning-bounces@ovirt.org] On Behalf Of Michael D >> Day >> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 0:02 AM >> To: project-planning(a)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? specvirt is neither free as in beer nor free as in speech. It's not something that a customer can easily obtain and play around with themselves.

Regards, Anthony Liguori