EA2380

Web-tier Consolidation Using VMware Infrastructure

Enterprises continue to move their technologies and services onto the web.
VMware Infrastructure 3 can help businesses to build a highly scalable and successful web computing platform that can enable web applications to dynamically grow in size while still meeting the stringent performance requirements.
In this talk, we will describe the processes and tuning methodologies we used to build a highly scalable web computing platform using VMware Infrastructure. We evaluated our approach by comparing the performance and scaling aspects of the widely deployed Apache/PHP web serving software in both conventional native environment and VMware Infrastructure environment using industry standard SPECweb2005 workload.
Test results show that our approach yields better scaling and a higher system level throughout performance than the native environment. We also validate our approach using other popular web serving environments including IIS as well as JSP deployments.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Sreekanth Setty( VMware,Inc. )

Sreekanth Setty is currently a member of the Outbound performance team at VMware. For past twelve years his focus has been on performance characterization, analysis and sizing in various tiers of enterprise infrastructure including database servers, middleware servers, web servers, and messaging servers. He published a number of papers focused on sizing and performance in these areas and presented them at various technical conferences. He was a key contributor in delivering a number of industry leading enterprise server benchmarks such as SPECweb2005, TPC-C and NotesBench.