VMware Performance Demonstrations
Oracle Database Scalability in VMware ESX
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Oracle databases are prevalent throughout the enterprise and known for their intensive demands on the IO subsystem. Virtual Infrastructure 3's ESX Server 3.5 is shown in this white paper to maintain peak Oracle DB performance of up to eight full-loaded virtual machines on a single host. This means more databases, fewer servers, and unparalleled performance. |
Virtualized Web Servers Outperform Native
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One of the most common targets for virtualization on VMware Infrastructure 3 are web servers. In addition to the increased uptime and automatic load balancing that provide incredible value to web servers, VMware virtualization can actually improve their performance. The following two papers show single VM instances of web servers matching and beating native latencies and multiple VMs on a single server serving more hits than single instances on the same hardware. |
Scaling IBM DB2 9 in a VMware Infrastructure Environment
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Web-based transactional workloads represent a common usage for enterprise servers and are an excellent target for server consolidation. Read the following VMware performance study to discover how to get near-native virtual performance for this popular workload. |
Making Efficient Utilization of Multi-Core Servers in VMware Infrastructure 3
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VMware Infrastructure delivers scalable performance that can efficiently utilize the performance gains offered by multi-core and multi-processor configurations. |
Scaling Server-based Computing with VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
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VMware View (formerly VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)), provides a fresh approach to server-based desktop computing, enabling you to host complete, unmodified desktops inside virtual machines that run on centralized servers. |
SQL Performance in a VMware Infrastructure 3 Environment
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Microsoft SQL Server has spread through the data center at prolific rates resulting in huge numbers of under-utilized databases running on 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows. VMware Infrastructure can be used to consolidate these servers, improve uptime, and balance servers so resources are available when they're needed. This paper details the performance characteristics of SQL Server on VMware Infrastructure 3. Sizing experiments are performance on uniprocessor and symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) systems on 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows. |
Other Performance Demonstrations
VMware Performance Comparisons
VMware Infrastructure Outperforms XenEnterprise in Multi-NIC Configurations
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VMware Infrastructure provides custom drivers that let you make more efficient use of multiple network interface cards (NICs) better than competing solutions. Read the following VMware paper, to discover the performance advantages of VMware Infrastructure over XenEnterprise 3.2. Multi-NIC Networking Performance in ESX 3.0.1 & XenEnterprise 3.2.0 |
VMware vs. Xen: A Performance Comparison of Hypervisors
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The hypervisor in VMware Infrastructure is the result of a decade of development and deployment, and provides performance that cannot be matched by less mature products. |
Other Performance Comparisons
- Benchmarking Microsoft SQL Server Using VMware ESX Server 3.5
- Networking Performance in Multiple Virtual Machines: VMware vs. Xen
- A Performance Comparison of Dell PowerEdge Servers Using VMware Virtualization
- Proving the Benefits of Deploying VMware on Unisys Enterprise Servers
- Performance Characteristics of VMFS and RDM
VMmark: A Better Benchmark for Virtualized Systems
The VMmark virtualization benchmark is an innovative solution that gives you complete insight into the performance and scalability of heterogeneous workloads, running on multiple virtual machines, consolidated on a physical server. Use VMmark to monitor the performance of virtual machines and compare the performance of virtualization platforms so that you can make appropriate hardware choices for your virtual infrastructure.
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