Abstract
Physical server transited to virtual server infrastructure (VSI) and desktop device to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) have the crucial problems of server consolidation, virtualization performance, virtual machine density, total cost of ownership (TCO), and return on investments (ROI). Besides, how to appropriately choose hypervisor for the desired server/desktop virtualization is really challenging, because a trade-off between virtualization performance and cost is a hard decision to make in the cloud. This paper introduces five hypervisors to establish the virtual environment and then gives a careful assessment based on C/P ratio that is derived from composite index, consolidation ratio, virtual machine density, TCO, and ROI. As a result, even though ESX server obtains the highest ROI and lowest TCO in server virtualization and Hyper-V R2 gains the best performance of virtual machine management; both of them however cost too much. Instead the best choice is Proxmox Virtual Environment (Proxmox VE) because it not only saves the initial investment a lot to own a virtual server/desktop infrastructure, but also obtains the lowest C/P ratio.
Highlights
Well-known public large-size cloud and private enterpriseowned cloud are currently leading cloud computing and services, for example, Amazon AWS, Google App Engine, and Windows Azure in public cloud and Saleforce.com and EMC2 in private cloud
This paper introduces five hypervisors to establish the virtual environment and gives a careful assessment based on C/P ratio that is derived from composite index, consolidation ratio, virtual machine density, total cost of ownership (TCO), and return on investments (ROI)
Given five hypervisors used to establish virtual server in cloud (VSiC), this paper introduces a composite index to represent the evaluated functional performance as well as formulates a proper equation to stand for the estimated virtualization cost so that a C/P ration will conclude a careful assessment about a variety of VSiCs discussed in this paper
Summary
Well-known public large-size cloud and private enterpriseowned cloud are currently leading cloud computing and services, for example, Amazon AWS, Google App Engine, and Windows Azure in public cloud and Saleforce.com and EMC2 in private cloud. Small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), educational institutes, and social groups are very eager to pursue the services they want based on virtual server in cloud (VSiC) [1] architecture due to cost reduction, performance escalation, and security improvement. With this service, the operational costs for the information system can be drastically reduced and it can quickly increase the competitiveness of its information system, which is sustained by the following advantages: centralized monitoring, quick management, dynamic optimization, and efficient backup. The hardware, information, and data will be obstacles for enterprises to overcome
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