14–18 Oct 2013
Amsterdam, Beurs van Berlage
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Performance evaluation and capacity planning for a scalable and highly available virtulization infrastructure for the LHCb experiment

14 Oct 2013, 15:00
45m
Grote zaal (Amsterdam, Beurs van Berlage)

Grote zaal

Amsterdam, Beurs van Berlage

Poster presentation Facilities, Production Infrastructures, Networking and Collaborative Tools Poster presentations

Speakers

Enrico Bonaccorsi (CERN) Francesco Sborzacchi (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT)) Niko Neufeld (CERN)

Description

The virtual computing is often run to satisfy different needs: reduce costs, reduce resources, simplify maintenance and the last but not the least add flexibility. The use of Virtualization in a complex system such as a farm of PCs that control the hardware of an experiment (PLC, power supplies ,gas, magnets..) put as in a condition where not only an High Performance requirements need to be carefully considered but also a deep analysis of strategies to achieve a certain level of High Availability. We conducted a performance evaluation on different and comparable storage/network/virtulization platforms. The performance is measured using a series of independent benchmarks , testing the speed an the stability of multiple VMs runnng heavy-load operations on the I/O of virtualized storage and the virtualized network. The result from the benchmark tests allowed us to study and evaluate how the different workloads of Vm workloads interact with the Hardware/Software resource layers.

Primary authors

Enrico Bonaccorsi (CERN) Francesco Sborzacchi (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT)) Niko Neufeld (CERN)

Presentation materials