Characterization & analysis of a server consolidation benchmark

VEE'08 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 21-29

  Apparao, Padma ^a   Iyer, Ravi ^a   Zhang, Xiaomin ^a   Newell, Don ^a   Adelmeyer, Tom ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cache scaling; Data center virtualization; VConsolidate; Virtualization overheads; Xen

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT SWITCH; CYCLES PER INSTRUCTIONS; DATA CENTERS; DATABASE APPLICATIONS; MAIL SERVERS; MULTI CORE; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PERFORMANCE MODEL; PERFORMANCE STUDY; SERVER CONSOLIDATION; SINGLE PLATFORM; VIRTUALIZATIONS; WEB SERVERS;

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77952414586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1346256.1346260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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