The VMware team released a paper a couple weeks ago about the performance of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 on vSphere 4.0 Release Candidate (build 140815).
They used their standard 16,000 mailbox testing enviroment across 8 VM’s on a HP DL580 with 128GB of memory. The storage was handled by a NetApp FAS6030 array.
Their test showed that [...]
A couple of weeks ago VMware published a benchmark analysis titled Performance and Scalability of Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere 4.
It assesses the performance of a SQL Server 2008 OLTP database hosted by a vSphere 4.0 virtual machine with 8 vCPUs and 58GB vRAM, and compares it against the performance of a physical system:
Of [...]
While the virtualization community continues to debate on the real-world value of the VMmark benchmark platform, VMware continues to update it.
VMmark 1.1.1 was released at the end of April with the following updates:
The VMmark harness has been updated to include automation of hypervisor and workload virtual machine reporting for disclosure
The reporting script has been updated [...]
There’s no doubt that the virtualization industry needs a standard benchmarking platform. The only two alternatives we have today are simply ignored (Intel vConsolidate) or are not recognized by all the vendors (VMware VMmark).
Now even the specialized press is questioning about the value of these platforms, we are talking specifically about Anandtech, suggesting that they [...]
It doesn’t matter how hard you look, it’s almost impossible that you are going to find a performance comparison that involves Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESX.
The VMware End User License Agreement (EULA) specifically says that the company won’t recognize any 3rd party performance testing before it has the chance to review and approve [...]
In the endless war for the best performance, VMware releases today a new, interesting analysis.
The company run the SPECweb2005 benchmark on a single HP ProLiant DL 585 G5 system with 16 cores and ESX 3.5 Update 3.
The industry standard platform simulates three typical workloads:
a number of customers accessing accounts at a given time via HTTPS
a [...]
For the forth time in few days that benchmarks about Citrix and VMware desktop virtualization (VDI, presentation virtualization and application virtualization) solutions take the central stage.
Is it a sign that somebody is getting nervous?
The first (non-sponsored) analysis came out from two independent enterprise architects, Ruben Spruijt and Jeroen van de Kamp, which evaluated how XenServer, [...]