An Automated Virtualization Performance Analysis Platform

Abstract

This research compares three traditional categories of virtualization to a technique known as hybrid virtualization. Each technique is evaluated in terms of both capability and performance. The traditional methods of platform virtualization such as full virtualization, paravirtualization and operating system virtualization each comes with its own set of capabilities and engineering trade-offs. Hybrid virtualization attempts to leverage the benefits of full and operating system virtualization by allowing virtual machines of each type of virtualization to run simultaneously on the same host machine. This research measures the time required for each virtualization technique to perform a workload inside virtual machines as the number of virtual machines running the workload scales. This performance data will help determine the usefulness of the hybrid technique in building a military cyber warfare training simulation environment based on virtualization. The goal is to determine which technique is capable of supporting large-scale environments required by realistic network training scenarios. The capability evaluation results indicate that hybrid virtualization successfully leverages the benefits of its two virtualization components while minimizing the trade-offs of each individual technique. The performance results indicate that the performance of each virtualization technique differs significantly relative to the workload applied. Some workloads saw no significant differences in performance between techniques. However, in the workloads that did show significant difference, the hybrid technique performed as well as or better than full virtualization or operating system virtualization alone. This leads to the conclusion that hybrid virtualization is a viable candidate as the basis for a military cyber warfare simulation and training environment.

Tendencias y Desafíos de la Computación de Alto Rendimiento en la Nube

“…Virtualización: Es una técnica que permite la creación de múltiples instancias de sistemas operativos y aplicaciones en una misma infraestructura de hardware, lo que permite el uso eficiente de recursos y la mejora del desempeño de los sistemas. En el ámbito de la HPC en la nube, la virtualización ha sido objeto de un gran interés en la investigación, con un enfoque particular en el desarrollo de sistemas de peso ligero (Ren et al, 2017;Duran-Limon et al, 2011;Xavier et al, 2013;Lee et al, 2013;Dai et al, 2013;Chaudhary et al, 2008), peso pesado (Regola y Ducom, 2010;, hipervisores (Younge et al, 2011;Regola y Ducom, 2010;Perera et al, 2011;Aladyshev et al, 2018) y enfoques híbridos (Zhang y Panda, 2017;Stewart et al, 2012;Lee et al, 2013).…”

“…La virtualización híbrida puede minimizar los problemas causados por un solo enfoque de virtualización. Zhang y Panda (2017) propusieron una virtualización híbrida que utiliza procesos MPI almacenados en diferentes contenedores y máquinas virtuales, mientras queStewart et al (2012) presentaron un enfoque híbrido que ofrece un desempeño superior al de la virtualización completa, aunque no tan bueno como el de la para-virtualización o la virtualización del sistema operativo, con la capacidad adicional de virtualizar sistemas operativos invitados arbitrariamente.…”

Assessment of In-Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning System Performed in a Virtual Cluster

“…In-Cloud ERP and Authentication. Virtual machine clustering system in cloud is an integration of virtualization, virtual machines, and virtual services so that it can make existing resources be fully applied, such as VMware ESX/ESXi Server [12], Microsoft Hyper-V R2 [13], or Proxmox Virtual Environment [14]. This system can let users run many operating systems in a single physical computer simultaneously which largely decreases the expense of purchasing PCs.…”

A networking laboratory using an integrated mixture of physical equipment and simulators

“…The development of a number of other virtual networking laboratories were also reported in Refs. . Recently a number of virtual laboratories were developed for other networking related areas including information security , wireless mesh network , storage area network , and voice over IP (VoIP) .…”