Originally published on February 2, 2009
Ixia just held a conference in San Diego with over 300 attendees from around the world. The participants were Ixia partners, systems engineers, trainers and network service professionals who use IxChariot.
During the conference we discussed the 2009 roadmap for IxChariot and the ways network engineers use IxChariot for different applications. One of the most interesting new applications was assessing the performance of datacenter virtualization. Server virtualization is one of the hottest trends in the IT industry. IT managers want to know: What impact does virtualization have on network performance?
It turns out that Steve Broadhead of Broadband-Testing Labs in the UK has been using IxChariot to answer that question. He recently ran a number of tests using two servers with 10GbE NICs running VMware and XEN virtual environments. His objective was to compare the performance of different 10GbE NICs from SolarFlare and Intel. Using IxChariot he was able to run up to 99% of line rate 10GbE throughput with up to 16 virtual machines per physical server.
Read Steve’s full report here.
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