TY - GEN
T1 - VDBench
T2 - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2010
AU - Berryman, Alex
AU - Calyam, Prasad
AU - Honigford, Matthew
AU - Lai, Albert M.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The recent advances in thin client devices and the push to transition users' desktop delivery to cloud environments will eventually transform how desktop computers are used today. The ability to measure and adapt the performance of virtual desktop environments is a major challenge for "virtual desktop cloud" service providers. In this paper, we present the "VD-Bench" toolkit that uses a novel methodology and related metrics to benchmark thin-client based virtual desktop environments in terms of scalability and reliability. We also describe how we used a VDBench instance to benchmark the performance of: (a) popular user applications (Spreadsheet Calculator, Internet Browser, Media Player, Interactive Visualization), (b) TCP/UDP based thin client protocols (RDP, RGS, PCoIP), and (c) remote user experience (interactive response times, perceived video quality), under a variety of system load and network health conditions. Our results can help service providers to mitigate over-provisioning in sizing virtual desktop resources, and guesswork in thin client protocol configurations, and thus obtain significant cost savings while simultaneously fostering satisfied customers.
AB - The recent advances in thin client devices and the push to transition users' desktop delivery to cloud environments will eventually transform how desktop computers are used today. The ability to measure and adapt the performance of virtual desktop environments is a major challenge for "virtual desktop cloud" service providers. In this paper, we present the "VD-Bench" toolkit that uses a novel methodology and related metrics to benchmark thin-client based virtual desktop environments in terms of scalability and reliability. We also describe how we used a VDBench instance to benchmark the performance of: (a) popular user applications (Spreadsheet Calculator, Internet Browser, Media Player, Interactive Visualization), (b) TCP/UDP based thin client protocols (RDP, RGS, PCoIP), and (c) remote user experience (interactive response times, perceived video quality), under a variety of system load and network health conditions. Our results can help service providers to mitigate over-provisioning in sizing virtual desktop resources, and guesswork in thin client protocol configurations, and thus obtain significant cost savings while simultaneously fostering satisfied customers.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79952412894&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CloudCom.2010.106
DO - 10.1109/CloudCom.2010.106
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79952412894
SN - 9780769543024
T3 - Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2010
SP - 480
EP - 487
BT - Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2010
Y2 - 30 November 2010 through 3 December 2010
ER -