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Protected: VMware Academic Research

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Protected: 2013 VMware Academic Research Symposium Speaker Abstracts & Bios

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Protected: VMware Academic Program – Research Projects

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Protected: Academic Licensing Overview

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I/O Analyzer

Jinpyo Kim — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:22:28 +0000

VMware I/O Analyzer is an integrated framework designed to measure storage performance in a virtual environment and to help diagnose storage performance concerns. I/O Analyzer, supplied as an easy-to-deploy virtual appliance, automates storage performance analysis through a unified interface that can be used to configure and deploy storage tests and view graphical results for those tests.

I/O Analyzer can use Iometer to generate synthetic I/O loads or a trace replay tool to deploy real application workloads. It uses the VMware VI SDK to remotely collect storage performance statistics from VMware ESX/ESXi hosts. Standardizing load generation and statistics collection allows users and VMware engineers to have a high level of confidence in the data collected.

Please post comments and questions regarding this fling to the I/O Analyzer Community.

Features

Integrated framework for storage performance testing
Readily deployable virtual appliance
Easy configuration and launch of storage I/O tests on one or more hosts
Integrated performance results at both guest and host levels
Storage I/O trace replay as an additional workload generator
Ability to upload storage I/O traces for automatic extraction of vital metrics
Graphical visualization of workload metrics and performance results

New in version 1.5.1

Minor backend updates
Additional documentation (VMware I/O Analyzer Installation and User’s Guide)

StatsFeeder

ravi — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:14:38 +0000

Statsfeeder is a tool that enables performance metrics to be retrieved from vCenter and sent to multiple destinations, including 3rd party systems.

The goal of StatsFeeder is to make it easier to collect statistics in a scalable manner. The user specifies the statistics to be collected in an XML file, and StatsFeeder will collect and persist these stats. The default persistence mechanism is comma-separated values, but the user can extend it to persist the data in a variety of formats, including a standard relational database or Key-value store. StatsFeeder is written leveraging significant experience with the performance APIs, allow the metrics to be retrieved in the most efficient manner possible.

For more information on Statsfeeder it’s purpose and operation, please see the “VMware Technical Journal: Vol. 1″ where it is extensively described.

Energy-Efficient and Reliable Server Management for HPC Clustering

admin — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:44:01 +0000

VMAP has been pleased to support the research of Prof. Ayse Coskun from Boston University.

Her research is focused on datacenter energy consumption reaches 3% of total US electricity use today and increases by 15% every year, costing billions of dollars. Close to half of this cost is for cooling. In addition, high power consumption increases temperature, and high temperatures accelerate reliability degradation. A significant portion of the hardware failures during useful life of chips are currently caused by high temperatures. Such failures do not only cause customer dissatisfaction but also delay delivering results because of the need of rerunning the requested tasks and increase the overall energy use.

Check out the project website at here.

VMware Academic Program 2012

admin — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:41:41 +0000

The VMware Academic Program had a busy year in 2012! We introduced new events, new publications, and added two new members to our team. We began to expand our global efforts as well this past year. VMAP is currently in discussions with our China and India offices on how to extend our programs into those countries, having already sponsored several conferences in China in 2012. In 2013 we will focus our attention on collaborative research in key strategic areas, broadly addressing VMware’s corporate investments in the Software Defined Data Center. Key new areas of interest include storage and intelligent automation. We also continue to support our existing research partners that are addressing performance and security in cloud and virtualized environments. Please read on for our 2012 recap, and a preview of upcoming 2013 events.

VMware Request for Proposals (RFP)

rtavilla — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 19:05:23 +0000

The VMware Academic Program invites proposals once year focused on a specific areas of research. Check out current and past RFPs.

2013 Spring RFP

2012 Spring RFP

2011 Spring RFP

Protected: 2013 VMware Academic Research Symposium Roster

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