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SPECvirt® Datacenter 2021The SPECvirt® Datacenter 2021 benchmark is the next generation of virtualization benchmarking for measuring performance of a scaled-out datacenter. 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 price is $2500 for new customers and $625 for qualified non profit organizations and accredited academic institutions. To find out if your organization has an existing license for a SPEC product please contact SPEC at info@spec.org. 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. However, most of today's datacenters use clusters for reliability, availability, serviceability, and security. Adding virtualization to a clustered solution enhances server optimization, flexibility, and application availability while reducing costs through server and datacenter consolidation. Patch updates:
The benchmark provides a methodical way to measure scalability and is designed to be utilized across multiple vendor platforms. The primary goal of the benchmark is to provide a standard method for measuring a virtualization platform's ability to model a dynamic datacenter virtual environment. 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. Its multi-host environment exercises datacenter operations under load. It dynamically provisions new workload tiles by either using a VM template or powering on existing VMs. As load reaches maximum capacity of the cluster, hosts are added to the cluster to measure scheduler efficiency. Another of benchmark's goals is ease of benchmarking. Manually creating the VM, installing the operating system into it, adjusting specific OS tuning settings, installing workload applications, and generating the workload data can be complicated and prone to error. To address this, SPEC provides a pre-built appliance containing the controller, workload driver clients, and workload VMs for the base metric. The software is pre-loaded and pre-configured in an effort to minimize the benchmarker's intervention and reduce implementation time and effort. 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:
Scaling is achieved by running additional sets of virtual machines, called "tiles", until overall throughput reaches a peak while all workloads continue to meet required quality of service (QoS) criteria. ResultsSubmitted Results: Includes all of the results submitted to SPEC from the SPEC member companies and other licensees of the benchmark. Search the SPEC virt_datacenter 2021 benchmark results in SPEC's online result database InformationPress ReleasesPress release material, documents, and announcements: Benchmark Documentation
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