OpenStack Summit May 2014 Atlanta

With the growing popularity and footprint of IaaS platforms, the question of migration of computational workloads to these virtualized environments becomes more and more relevant. Savanna provides integration and automation for Hadoop deployment on OpenStack, but what about performance in this environment?

In this talk, we will discuss the performance impact of running Hadoop in a virtualized environment inside an OpenStack cloud.

What is the performance difference between bare-metal and virtualized Hadoop environments? What is the IO overhead in OpenStack? How does data locality influence data flow? This presentation will cover these and other questions about the performance of Hadoop on OpenStack by presenting a series of benchmark tests over different installations of Hadoop.