Performance prediction of an application before migrating from a source system and deploying on the target system is a challenging but important task. In this paper, we present a method for predicting the performance of an IO intensive multithreaded enterprise application workload on target systems connected to advanced storage devices. Our approach is an extension of well-known trace and replay method. We extract traces of IO intensive enterprise workloads representing temporal and spatial characteristics (e.g. read and write requests) on the source system where application is currently deployed. These traces are replayed on the system of interest called target system. The experimental results presented demonstrate the effectiveness and accuracy of this method.
['Dheeraj Chahal', 'Rupinder Virk', 'Manoj K. Nambiar']
Performance Extrapolation of IO Intensive Workloads: Work in Progress