VXLAN Performance Evaluation on VMware （在VMware VXLAN绩效评估）.pdfVIP

VXLAN Performance Evaluation on VMware ® vSphere 5.1 Performance Study T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R VXLAN Performance Evaluation on VMware vSphere 5.1 Table of Contents Introduction3 VXLAN Performance Considerations 3 Test Configuration 4 Results 5 Throughput for Large and Small Message Sizes5 CPU Overhead for Large and Small Message Sizes 6 Throughput and CPU Utilization for 16 Virtual Machines, Various Message Sizes 7 Conclusion 8 T E C H N I C A L W H I T E P A P E R / 2 VXLAN Performance Evaluation on VMware vSphere 5.1 Introduction Cloud computing services have experienced rapid growth over the past few years because they can keep costs down by allowing multiple tenants to share system resources. One requirement of making this multiple tenancy possible is to provide each tenant with network isolation. Segmenting the traffic using VLAN is a typical solution to this problem. However, service providers also need to keep up with customer demand by being able to move workloads to those servers that have spare resources. To do so, network traffic needs to be encapsulated so that the workload is not tied to the underlying hardware. This can be a problem because the networking architecture ties the workloads to the underlying hardware, which restricts the movements of these workloads and limits where these workload