Impact of Hypervisor Based Data Acceleration Tier on Virtualized Applications

Hypervisor-based I/O acceleration tiers built using server side high-speed I/O media promise to scale the I/O performance of virtualized data centers to new heights. This talk quantifies the core hypothesis of an acceleration tier – liberating I/Os from the clutches of data access latency, and achieving linear storage scale. I/O profiles of enterprise applications with varying I/O requirements, from low latency to high throughput are used to study the impact of the acceleration tier on the applications’ reads and writes both without and with fault tolerance across a hypervisor (vSphere) cluster. This talk will also analyze the effectiveness of various low latency IO media as hardware building blocks for said acceleration tier.

Learning Objectives

Performance implications of accelerating reads and writes of virtualized applications
High-speed server side I/O media and their impact on I/O acceleration
Scaling I/O acceleration across a vSphere cluster