Performance Impacts With Optimized Virtual Environments on Intel Virtualization Technology-Based Platforms

Intel constantly benchmarks the virtual environment deployment scenarios on platforms with Intel Virtualization Technology. The testing helps to develop some valuable techniques for optimizing virtual environments and various types of workloads. These techniques are outlined in the paper "Optimizing Virtual Environments on Intel Virtualization Technology-enabled Platforms," which one can download from the Intel web site. The benchmark results in this paper show how optimization techniques helped minimize the delta between virtual and native performance. The benchmarks are based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 using the Xen Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) hosts and both Linux and Microsoft Windows guests on Intel Virtualization Technology-enabled platforms.