PERFORMANCE OVERHEAD OF PARAVIRTUALIZATION ON AN EXEMPLARY ERP SYSTEM

André Bögelsack, Helmut Krcmar, Holger Wittges

2010

Abstract

This paper addresses aspects of performance overhead when using paravirtualization techniques. To quantify the overhead the paper introduces and utilizes a new testing method, called the Zachmann test, to determine the performance overhead in a paravirtualized environment. The Zachmann test is used to perform CPU and memory intensive operations in a testing environment consisting of an exemplary Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and a Xen hypervisor derivate. We focus on two issues: first, the performance overhead in general and second, the analysis of “overcommitment” situations. Our measurements show that the ERP system’s performance suffers up to 44% loss in virtualized environments compared to non-virtualized environments. Extreme overcommitment situations can lead to an overall performance loss up to 10%. This work shows the first results from a quantitative analysis.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bögelsack A., Krcmar H. and Wittges H. (2010). PERFORMANCE OVERHEAD OF PARAVIRTUALIZATION ON AN EXEMPLARY ERP SYSTEM . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-04-1, pages 347-354. DOI: 10.5220/0002867803470354

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis10,
author={André Bögelsack and Helmut Krcmar and Holger Wittges},
title={PERFORMANCE OVERHEAD OF PARAVIRTUALIZATION ON AN EXEMPLARY ERP SYSTEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={347-354},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002867803470354},
isbn={978-989-8425-04-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - PERFORMANCE OVERHEAD OF PARAVIRTUALIZATION ON AN EXEMPLARY ERP SYSTEM
SN - 978-989-8425-04-1
AU - Bögelsack A.
AU - Krcmar H.
AU - Wittges H.
PY - 2010
SP - 347
EP - 354
DO - 10.5220/0002867803470354