Benchmarking the Performance of OpenStack and CloudStack

With the rapid increase of growth and development in cloud computing it is clear to see that it is becoming a common trend within the industry leading to the adoption by businesses and Information Technology (IT) users alike. Coupled with this trend comes a vast amount of academic research into the cloud computing industry covering most aspects but still leaving some untouched. There is, however, a gap in the academic research for this specific area with current studies focusing on very specific performance issues without considering a general overview of performance. This paper demonstrates the importance of understanding the need to benchmark cloud platforms in order to gain a performance overview of the platforms which one may be integrating into a production environment. This paper investigates the performance of two open source cloud platforms, Open Stack and Cloud Stack. The performance testing is strictly focused on the platforms themselves other than the underlying elements. Therefore, the platforms have both been tested on a mutual hyper visor and mutual available resources. The experiment results demonstrate the advantages of performing cloud management platform benchmarking.