VMware Sets the Standard for Virtualization Performance

Oracle databases are prevalent throughout the enterprise and known for their intensive demands on the IO subsystem. VMware vSphere has demonstrated performance capabilities to enable efficient scaling of multiple Oracle instances and near-native transaction rates. vSphere 4 is ready to consolidate the most demanding Oracle databases.

Oracle Database Scalability on VMware ESX

Virtualizing Performance-Critical Database Applications in
VMware® vSphere™

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.

SPECweb2005 Performance

Consolidated Web Server 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 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.

Learn more about the server load characteristics and system performance of VMware View 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 vSphere can consolidate these servers, improve uptime, and balance workload so resources are available when they're needed.

These papers detail the performance characteristics of SQL Server on VMware vSphere.

Performance and Scalability of Microsoft SQL Server on VMware vSphere 4

Microsoft SQL Server 32-bit and 64-bit on VMware Infrastructure 3

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