VMware Sets the Standard for Virtualization Performance

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.

Oracle Database Scalability in VMware ESX

Using the SPEC standardization body's SPECweb2005, VMware ESX 3.5 has been shown to handle the most demanding web traffic with latencies matching native systems. This means the high availability, automatic load balancing, simplified deployment and other features of VI3 can be provided with near native virtual performance.

SPECweb2005 Performance

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

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

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

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 VI3.  Sizing experiments are performance on uniprocessor and symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) systems on 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows.

SQL Performance

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

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