Ravello Systems Demonstrates up to 2x Increase in Application Performance on AWS With Nested Virtualization

Ravello Systems, the industry’s first Cloud Application Hypervisor provider, has demonstrated that with virtual machine consolidation in the cloud it can increase Amazon Web Services (AWS) performance up to 2x.
Virtualization today has become the de facto platform for running applications, with Forrester Research stating as many as six out of 10 workloads are running in virtual machines. The next generation of virtualization from Ravello uses nested virtualization to significantly improve enterprise agility. This includes encapsulation at the multi-VM application level with software defined networking and storage, as well as abstraction of the underlying cloud.
Ravello Demonstrates up to 2x Better AWS Performance with Nested VM Consolidation
Much like traditional hypervisors can consolidate multiple virtual machines on a single physical server, Ravello’s Cloud Application Hypervisor can consolidate multiple guest virtual machines on a larger host virtual machine. Additionally, Ravello has demonstrated that the performance of a multi-VM application can be increased by a factor of up to 2x in AWS with VM consolidation. This is primarily due to a combination of two factors, networking within the application and pooling of resources. The full details of this performance testing have been published here.
Nested Virtualization Allows for Agile Development and Test
Nested virtualization technology enables enterprises to create agile application development and test environments in the cloud. This is delivered through a hybrid cloud model that utilizes capacity on demand from private and public clouds without making any changes to the application. For example, a complex VMware workload can be run unmodified on AWS – with everything including the VMs and networking staying exactly the same. Using this technology, enterprises can now create accurate, representative test environments in the public cloud without having to modify their existing on-premise applications.
“Just like the early days of VMware which started with development and test servers going from physical to virtual, enterprises today are using Ravello HVX to take their development and test environments to the next level - from virtual to cloud,” said Alex Fishman, virtualization CTO, Ravello Systems. “The key to delivering high performance was to build a nested hypervisor specifically designed for the cloud since it’s a very different environment. Traditionally virtualization adds overhead but here at Ravello we are proving that with our new consolidation capabilities, adding another hypervisor may actually improve performance in the cloud for some workloads.”