Virtualized Application Performance Through Disabling of Unnecessary Functions

An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having embodied therein executable program code that when executed by the processing device causes the processing device to perform the following steps:

• obtaining, by a hypervisor, a request from a first virtual machine to perform one or more of encrypting and decrypting of a communication between the first virtual machine and a second virtual machine;
• determining, by the hypervisor, when said first and second virtual machines execute on a same host as the hypervisor;
• in response to said first and second virtual machines executing on said same host:
• processing, by the hypervisor, said communication without performing said one or more of encrypting and decrypting of said communication, wherein the hypervisor initiates an encryption of further communications between said first virtual machine and said second virtual machine in response to at least one of said first virtual machine and said second virtual machine being moved from said same host.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• at least one hardware device operatively coupled to the memory and configured to perform the following steps:
• obtain, by a hypervisor, a request from a first virtual machine to perform one or more of encrypting and decrypting of a communication between the first virtual machine and a second virtual machine;
• determine, by the hypervisor, when said first and second virtual machines execute on a same host as the hypervisor;
• and
• in response to said first and second virtual machines executing on said same host:
• process, by the hypervisor, said communication without performing said one or more of encrypting and decrypting of said communication, wherein the hypervisor initiates an encryption of further communications between said first virtual machine and said second virtual machine in response to at least one of said first virtual machine and said second virtual machine being moved from said same host.