WGCap: A synthetic trace generation tool for capacity planning of virtual server environments

• Published in: 2010 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics pp. 2094 - 2101
• Main Authors: Galindo, H E S, Guedes, E A C, Maciel, P R M, Silva, B, Galdino, Sérgio M L
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-10-2010
• Subjects: Capacity planning; Generators; Graphical user interfaces; Kernel; Measurement; Probability distribution; random variates; Servers; Synthetic trace generation
• ISBN: 1424465869; 9781424465866
• ISSN: 1062-922X; 2577-1655
• DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2010.5641705

This paper describes the development and use of an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) for a synthetic trace generator named WGCap (Workload Generator for Capacity Advisor). The WGCap GUI generates traces to be imported into the Capacity Advisor, a capacity planning tool inside the HP Virtual Server Environment - VSE, for simulating the consumption of resources like CPU demand, memory size, disk data rate and network data rate. The workload generation acts in a flexible way, allowing the generation of workloads based on actual traces or on a significant set of probability distributions and statistical summaries.