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Multi-level Virtualization and Its Impact on System Performance in Cloud Computing

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Computer Networks (CN 2016)

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The results of benchmarking tests of multi-level virtualized environments are presented. There is analysed the performance impact of hardware virtualization, container-type isolation and programming level abstraction. The comparison is made on the basis of a proposed score metric that allows you to compare different aspects of performance. There is general performance (CPU and memory), networking, disk operations and application-like load taken into account. The tested technologies are, inter alia, VMware ESXi, Docker and Oracle JVM.

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  1. IT Services Centre, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

    Paweł Lubomski & Andrzej Kalinowski

  2. Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

    Henryk Krawczyk

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  1. Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

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  2. Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Andrzej Kwiecień

  3. Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

    Piotr Stera

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Lubomski, P., Kalinowski, A., Krawczyk, H. (2016). Multi-level Virtualization and Its Impact on System Performance in Cloud Computing. In: Gaj, P., Kwiecień, A., Stera, P. (eds) Computer Networks. CN 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 608. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39207-3_22

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