Re: virtualization benchmark suites

On 09/23/2011 12:20 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > 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. Does such benchmark ever existed (apart from kernel build)? :) As you pointed Anthony, let the ovirt project first focus on simplify the build process before we develop a competing benchmark suite to the one that we base lots of our marketing over. Sorry spilling cold water, just one thing at a time.