Appendix b: workload details, Specjbb2005, Kernel compile – VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance 4 User Manual
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appendix B: workload Details
SPECjbb2005
Virtual machine configuration: 1 vCPU, 4GB RAM, Enhanced VMXNET virtual NIC, LSI Logic virtual SCSI adapter
OS version: RHEL5.1, x64
Java Version: JRockit R27.4.0, Java 1.6.0_22
Benchmark parameters:
No of warehouses: Two
	JVM	Parameters:			-XXaggressive			-Xgc:parallel			-XXcompactratio8			-XXminblocksize32k		-XXlargeObjectLimit=4k			-Xmx1024m			
-Xms1024m
Note: Scores for the first warehouse run were ignored.
Kernel Compile
Virtual machine configuration: 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, LSI Logic Virtual SCSI adapter
OS version: SLES 10 SP2 x86_64
Kernel version: 2.16.16.60-0-21-default
Benchmark	details:	Time	taken	to	compile	(make	bzImage)	Linux	kernel	2.6.20	was	measured.	Experiment	was	repeated	5	times	and	
the average run time was reported.
Netperf
Virtual machine configuration: 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, LSI Logic Virtual SCSI adapter
OS version: SLES 10 SP2 x86_64
Kernel version: 2.16.16.60-0-21-default
Netperf configuration for throughput case: Remote and local
Message size: 8K, Remote and local socket size: 64K
Netperf configuration for latency sensitive case: Remote and local message size: 8K; Remote and local socket size: 8K
Filebench
Virtual machine configuration: 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, LSI Logic Virtual SCSI adapter
OS version: SLES 10 SP2 x86_64
Kernel version: 2.16.16.60-0-21-default
Filebench	configuration:	IO	size	:2K,	64K	shadow	threads:	200,	disk	type:	raw,	directIO:1,	usermode:	0,	personality:	oltp_read,	runtime:	
300 secs
Oracle 11g — Swingbench
Virtual machine configuration: 1 vCPU, 4GB RAM, Enhanced VMXNET virtual NIC, LSI Logic virtual SCSI adapter
OS version: SLES 10 SP2, x86_64
Kernel version: 2.16.16.60-0-21-default
Oracle Version: 11.1.0.6.0
Database Details: Max number of processes – 150; SGA buffer size: 1535MB; Data file size: 23GB, index, redo and database files on the 
same location
