virtualization benchmark suites

[Anthony Liguori]

On 09/22/2011 04:11 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
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>
>> -----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?

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


>
>>
>> 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
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