Modeling virtual machine performance: Challenges and approaches

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 55-60

  Tickoo, Omesh ^a   Iyer, Ravi ^a   Illikkal, Ramesh ^a   Newell, Don ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

CMP; Consolidation; Measurement; Modeling; Performance analysis; Servers; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

CMP; DATA CENTERS; HYPERVISOR; I/O DEVICE; KEY PROBLEMS; MEMORY CAPACITY; MICRO ARCHITECTURES; MODELING; MODELING PERFORMANCE; MULTI CORE; PARALLEL APPLICATION; PERFORMANCE MODELING; SERVER PLATFORM; SHARED CACHE; SHARED MEMORIES; VIRTUAL MACHINE MONITORS; VIRTUAL MACHINES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION;

SERVERS;

EID: 77955150549     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1710115.1710126     Document Type: Conference Paper

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