Hypervisors benchmarked - VMware not happy
A comparative analysis of the three major hypervisors VMware, Hyper-V and XenServer has been published here
The aim?
When it comes to hypervisors, there are many choices now. That’s good news for consumers, who were much more limited even one year ago. Still, when admins go shopping, they look first at hypervisors from VMware Inc. (ESX), Microsoft (Hyper-V) and Citrix Systems Inc. (XenServer). Given that situation, we wanted to do a side-by-side, exact comparison under identical conditions to determine which of these is the best-performing product. After all, the hypervisor is still the engine that drives virtualization, even with all the management and third-party products built on top.
The test favoured Microsoft who had some nice things to say about the results and its publishers:
Rick Vanover and his editor, Keith Ward, deserve kudos for securing VMware approval for the performance comparison without jeopardizing journalistic integrity. Way to go! … We’re pleased to see Hyper-V won 4 of the 11 tests (the others going to XenServer by a less than a horse length).
Microsoft has linked the results to its official blog here
Citrix did not underperform; but it also did to outshine its competitors so it is silent - so far.
The results did not validate VMware’s position as the market leader and so not surprisingly, they are unhappy. VMware has challenged the methodology of the benchmark and has criticised Microsoft for being too quick to accept the results:
It was a benchmark unlike any we’d seen before and it left us scratching our heads because there were so few details and the results made no sense whatsoever. Of course, Microsoft didn’t let the benchmark’s flaws stop them from linking to the article claiming it as proof that Hyper-V performs better than other hypervisors.
You can read about their full reaction here
Of course for those of you considering a hypervisor for your company, you have enough information to begin your search.
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