VMmark 1.0 is now live.
This release is the culmination of lot of effort by the VMmark team. Big congrats to them to get this tool available to the virtualization community.
Having worked in the virtualization performance arena for about 5 years, I can attest to the need for standard benchmark. There are so many variables due to the layers of software running on layers and then resource sharing on top that it is very difficult to make sense of data presented by customers, partners, the press and the community at large. VMmark attempts to address this by creating a standard benchmark.
The design of VMmark is very cool: it uses Tiles of "sub-tests" derived from commonly used load generators. The game then is to fit as many tiles on a machine as you can. Read more about this at the VMmark page.
Irfan
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Thanks for taking the time
Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful and beneficial to your readers.
V-Kernel
I'm Bob on the V-Kernel team (in a couple weeks we'll release v.1 of our Virtual appliance for Chargeback and Capacity reporting - very cool). One of my extra-curricular jobs is to get a big picture of what is going on all over the domain of virtualization. VMmark seems to be an example of nifty technology motivated by this domain. (We feel the same way about V-Kernel.) The tide is coming in and virtualization will spread into realms unimaginable. There will be, for example, virtual stapling machines...maybe eventually virtual staples!
What's funny is how much under the radar it still is. For instance, I'm typing this and there is an automatic spell checker. And the word "virtualization" is not considered a real word -- so maybe it's a virtual word!!
storage util on v-kernel reports
Hey Bob:
Good to hear from you. I had a question: In the storage graph on your website, how does the storage utilizaton come down. I figure storage util always just grows and grows (screenshot).
Irfan