Интересная выдержка:
«Quantitative comparison between xen and kvm», 17th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP09), абстракт:
Currently the virtualization solution adopted is xen, which is well supported by the Scientific Linux distribution, widely adopted by the HEP community. Since the HEP linux distribution is based on RedHat ES, we feel the need to investigate performance and usability differences with the new kvm technology recently acquired by RedHat. The case study of this work will be the LHCb experiment Tier2 site hosted at our institute, where all major grid elements run on xen virtual machines smoothly.
Заключение:
To summarize, we can say that even if looking very promising, right now, xen hypervisor seems to be the best solution, particularly when using the para-virtualized approach.
Глоссарий:
- HEP — high energy physics,
- LHC — БАК.
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