Re: virtualization benchmark suites

> -----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?

> > Thanks, > > Mike > > Mike Day > IBM Distinguished Engineer > Chief Virtualization Architect, Open Systems Development > Cell: +1 919 371-8786 | mdday(a)us.ibm.com > http://code.ncultra.org _______________________________________________ Project-planning mailing list Project-planning(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/project-planning