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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2009
Judith H. Bank, Cary, NC (US);
James N. Chen, Austin, TX (US);
Steven E. Froehlich, Danbury, CT (US);
Karl R. Huppler, Mantorville, MN (US);
Elisabeth R. Stahl, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Judith H. Bank, Cary, NC (US);
James N. Chen, Austin, TX (US);
Steven E. Froehlich, Danbury, CT (US);
Karl R. Huppler, Mantorville, MN (US);
Elisabeth R. Stahl, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for and article of manufacture for simulating workloads experienced by multiple partitions in a virtualized system are provided. A master workload driver initiates, coordinates and regulates one or more workload drivers that execute one or more workload simulation tasks in a logical partition. Further, each workload driver may be configured to report a measure of performance regarding the workload to the master control driver where results of many workload drivers may be correlated and analyzed. A configuration file specifies the characteristics of each simulation. Further, the rate and nature of workloads may be adjusted dynamically during a given simulation to model the performance under different real-world scenarios of different computational loads that may be experienced by the virtualized system.