Virtualization

Name: Karan ChhabraStudent Id: 14111322Course: MSc Cloud Computing (IaaS)Supervisor: Mr. Vikas Sahni

ASSESSING PERFORMANCE OF PROCESSOR VIRTUALIZATION BETWEEN VMWARE ESXI AND KVM (KERNEL-BASED VIRTUAL MACHINE) USING LINPACK BENCHMARK

Objective• The objective of this project is to benchmark the performance of the two hypervisors i.e. VMware ESXi and KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) simultaneously.

•The benchmarking is done by performing tests on the virtual machines installed on both the hypervisors

• The test is performed by using a benchmarking software LINPACK, a standard benchmarking software for measuring the performance of the CPU.

Demonstration

Results RESULTS FOR VMWARE ESXI RESULTS FOR KVM

Evaluation

Vmware ESXi KVM

Average Gflops 25.2088 11.6477

Maximal Gflops 35.145 13.0499

2.57.5

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Average Gflops

Maximal Gflops

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Average Gflops Maximal Gflops

SecurityThe security measures taken in this experiment are:

1. Enable firewall.

2. Secure login through putty.

3. Virtual machine isolation.

4. Enable VLAN.

5. Enable SSH.

Conclusion

• On benchmarking both the hypervisors, results show that VMware ESXi took larger number of Gflops than KVM which proves that VMware ESXi has high performance than KVM.

Questions