A research on storage performance optimization of virtual machine

Abstract

Nowadays, virtualization technology, which is one of the key technology of cloud computing, is facing new challenges and development opportunities with the rise of cloud computing. As a typical application of virtualization, virtual machine can play the role of the segmentation and reintegration of underlying physical resources, improving the utilization of server hardware resources and reducing energy consumption. However, the virtual machine system using the traditional storage scheme leads to poor virtual machine storage performance. It needs to pay more attention to the poor virtual machine storage performance and optimize the storage performance of it. In this paper, a deep research of how traditional storage scheme leads to poor virtual machine storage performance is done by an experiment, then a series of optimizing solution based on SSD (Solid State Drive) and RAID technology is proposed with related test.