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Consolidation of a Performance- Sensitive Application: Virtualizing Electronic Sports League’s Gaming InfrastructureWhite PaperIntel® Xeon® Processor

ESL game testingAt ESL labs, we ran a series of tests cases that included private and public Internet testing. All these tests revealed that there is

ROI DeliveredServer consolidationFigure 15 represents the CPU utilization and power utilized by the server at various numbers of virtual machines unde

Power savingsUsing the optimal number of virtual machines, which is 36, a simple calculation of direct power costs was done comparing the before (nat

ConclusionsWe have shown that ESL’s mission-critical, processor-intensive, network latency-sensitive game servers can be very effectively virtualize

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Table of ContentsIntroduction – Can We Virtualize Everything? ...3 “Non-virtualizable”

ESLElectronic Sports League (ESL) is the largest online gaming community in Europe, with more than 844,000 active users as of August 12, 2008. ESL has

Problem statementESL’s perception, along with that of many of its peers in the gaming industry, was that gaming servers “can’t be virtualized” due to

of virtualization in the Intel lab using common network micro-benchmarks before attempting the virtualization of the gaming server environment. This w

VMM overhead•Switchingload•InterruptbottleneckWe can optimize the network I/O solution to solve both of the issues above.In Figure 5, we show the

Software stackFigure 7 shows the software stack used in the PoC. We started with VMware ESX 3.5U1, which was the latest production version at the time

Gaming protocolHow does this gaming protocol work? A player sends a UDP packet of 40–200 bytes in size to the game server. The game server receives th

Scenarios 2 and 3: Virtualized with and without VMDq/NetQueueIn these scenarios, the setup shown in Figure 11, consists of eight clients connected to