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VMware Sets the Standard for Virtualization Performance

VMware and other industry leaders have performed extensive testing to measure the performance sizing and scaling of our software products. The results clearly demonstrate that with VMware solutions, you can achieve high-performance throughput in a heavily virtualized environment, even as the number of total supported users and the number of virtual machines increases.

Read below to find virtualization performance demonstrations for solutions such as VMware Infrastructure 3 and VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), find out how VMware stacks up against the competition or download the industry-standard VMmark virtualization benchmark to gain a more accurate measurement of virtualization performance.

VMware Performance Demonstrations

Scaling IBM DB2 9 in a VMware Infrastructure Environment

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.

Scaling IBM DB2 9 in a VMware Infrastructure 3 Environment

Making Efficient Utilization of Multi-Core Servers in VMware Infrastructure 3

VMware Infrastructure delivers scalable performance that can efficiently utilize the performance gains offered by multi-core and multi-processor configurations.

Find out how VMware makes efficient use of large symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) servers in the following joint report from VMware and IBM entitled.

Using VMware ESX with IBM WebSphere Application Server

Scaling Server-based Computing with VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

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.

Learn more about the server load characteristics and system performance of VMware VDI under real-world workloads in the following VMware performance study.

VDI Server Sizing and Scaling

Other Performance Demonstrations

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Performance on VMware ESX

VMware Performance Comparisons

VMware Infrastructure Outperforms XenEnterprise in Multi-NIC Configurations

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

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.

Discover the performance advantages and increased efficiency provided by VMware Infrastructure relative to the Xen hypervisor in the following VMware study.

A Performance Comparison of Hypervisors

Other Performance Comparisons

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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