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the VM for sending data packets and VM for receiving data pack-
ets are located on the same physical machine. For the cross-machine
scenario, the two VMs are provisioned on two different physical
machines.
14.4.3 Test workflow
The general steps of virtual computing resource benchmarking (Figure14.3)
for each cloud platform include:
Step 1. Building an image with different virtual computing resource
benchmark software packages installed for each open-source
solution—To build an image, a VM needs to be launched with the
conguration listed in Table 14.3 and can be further ...