Network Overhead in Virtual Machines
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | R&D Presentation |
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| Description | In order to determine whether the overhead of contemporary virtualisation tools is affordable, we measured UDP network throughput in Xen and VServer virtual machine monitors in a real cluster environment and compared it to performance of physical machines. In addition to network performance achievable by a single VM, interactions with another VM (either network or CPU bound) were measured to determine the possibility of several concurrently running VMs. We also compared overheads of IPv4 and IPv6 in a virtualised environment. |
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