Cloud Native Theater | Data on Kubernetes Day: KubeVirt Benchmar... Bhumitra Nagar & Dhruv Bhatnagar

This talk covers the introduction of the KubeVirt Performance Benchmarking Suite, a vendor-neutral, end-to-end benchmarking framework specifically designed for virtual machines. The speaker discusses how this open-source toolkit provides automated, reproducible, and customizable performance tests that include VM creation, boot storms, live migration, storage behavior, and recovery. Attendees will learn about the suite's capabilities to validate cluster readiness, provision large numbers of VMs, and measure performance characteristics across any Kubernetes distribution and CSI storage backend. The session also highlights the built-in results dashboard that helps visualize trends and offers actionable performance insights, making it an essential tool for operators and SREs.