Malware analysis is the process of determining the behavior and purpose of a given malware sample (such as a virus, worm, or Trojan horse). This process is a necessary step to be able to develop effective detection techniques and removal tools. Security companies typically analyze unknown malware samples using simulated system environments (such as virtual machines or emulators). The reason is ...

This manuscript presents teaching and curriculum design for Information Technology classes. Today, students demand hands-on activities for the newest technologies. It is feasible to satisfy this appetite for exciting education by employing server virtualization technologies to teach advanced concepts with extensive hands-on assignments. Through utilization of virtualized servers, students are a...

VMware® vSphereTM 4.0 with ESXTM 4.0 makes it easier than ever to virtualize demanding applications such as databases. Database workloads are widely acknowledged to be extremely resource-intensive. The large number of storage commands issued and the network activity to serve remote clients place significant challenges on the platform. The high consumption of CPU and memory resources leaves litt...

The performance of three Hadoop applications is reported for several virtual configurations on VMware vSphere 5 and compared to native configurations. A well-balanced seven-node AMAX ClusterMax system was used to show that the average performance difference between native and the simplest virtualized configurations is only 4%. Further, the flexibility enabled by virtualization to create multipl...

Network virtualization is a technique that allows having multiple concurrent isolated networks sharing physical network resources. This work analyzes the main available virtualization platforms, Xen, OpenVZ, and VMware, for network virtualization. We compare their virtualization techniques, achieved performance in virtualizing computational resources and appropriateness for usage in a virtual n...

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The performance of three Hadoop applications is reported for several virtual configurations on VMware vSphere 5 and compared to native configurations. A well-balanced seven-node AMAX ClusterMax system was used to show that the average performance difference between native and the simplest virtualized configurations is only 4%. Further, the flexibility enabled by virtualization to create multipl...

922 Benchmarking the Performance of Microsoft Hyper-V server, VMware ESXi and Xen Hypervisors 1 Hasan Fayyad-Kazan, 2 Luc Perneel, 3 Martin Timmerman 1 PhD Candidate, Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 21050 Brussels, Belgium 2 PhD Candidate, Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 21050 Brussels, Belgium Pro...

The CPU scheduler is an essential component of vSphere 5.x. All workloads running in a virtual machine must be scheduled for execution and the CPU scheduler handles this task with policies that maintain fairness, throughput, responsiveness, and scalability of CPU resources. This paper describes these policies, and this knowledge may be applied to performance troubleshooting or system tuning. Th...