Virtual Reality Check: new hardware, new benchmark
About a year ago, Virtual Reality Check published benchmark results carried out on VMware ESX, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V. Now comes the "Phase 2" project, which incorporated the stress-tests on new versions of hypervisors tested with the new Intel Nehalem.
Tests of the Virtual Reality Check Project are based on Login Virtual Session Indexer (Login VSI 2.1), a benchmarking system that calculates an index number based on the amount of concurrent sessions that can run on a single machine, whether physical or Virtual.
The novelty of this second release, in addition to the results, all tests have been summarized in a single document. I will not anticipate the final results, but will signal that once again Microsoft Hyper-V shows a very significant performance increase.
As with the previous version, the document is available on the website of Project VRC only via login and password, but registration is completely free.
For more information:
- Benchmarks: vSphere 4.0 versus XenServer 5.5 vs R2 Hyper-V for Terminal Services and VDI workloads
- ProjectVRC
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