
Unique data generation during initialization and benchmark measurement intervals (MI) to prevent page sharingĪ flexible but phased approach for automated cluster load creation and scale outĪnother of benchmark’s goals is ease of benchmarking. Rather than offering a single workload that attempts to approximate the breadth of consolidated virtualized server characteristics, the benchmark uses a five-workload benchmark design:ĪllInOneBench mail server emulating the resource profile of SPEC VIRT_SC 2013’s SPECimapĪllInOneBench web server modeled after the workload profile of SPEC VIRT_SC 2013’s modified SPECweb ® 2005 benchmarkĪllInOneBench collaboration server emulating a resource profile based on customer data for collaboration servicesĪll workloads drive pre-defined, dynamic loads against sets of virtualized machines. As load reaches maximum capacity of the cluster, hosts are added to the cluster to measure scheduler efficiency.

It dynamically provisions new workload tiles by either using a VM template or powering on existing VMs. Its multi-host environment exercises datacenter operations under load. It models typical, modern-day usage of virtualized infrastructure, such as virtual machine (VM) resource provisioning, cross-node load balancing including management operations such as VM migrations, and VM power on/off. The primary goal of the benchmark is to be a standard method for measuring a virtualization platform’s ability to model a dynamic datacenter virtual environment. The benchmark provides a methodical way to measure scalability and is designed to be utilized across multiple vendor platforms. Adding virtualization to a clustered solution enhances server optimization, flexibility, and application availability while reducing costs through server and datacenter consolidation. However, most of today’s datacenters use clusters for reliability, availability, serviceability, and security. The SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark differs from the SPEC VIRT_SC ® 2013 benchmark in that SPEC VIRT_SC benchmark measures single host performance and provides interesting host-level information. The SPECvirt Datacenter 2021 benchmark is a multi-host benchmark using simulated and real-life workloads to measure the overall efficiency of virtualization solutions and their management environments.


The SPECvirt ® Datacenter 2021 benchmark is the next generation of virtualization benchmarking for measuring performance of a scaled-out datacenter.
