| Performance Benchmarking Guidelines for VMware Workstation 5.5 |
| Tuesday, 02 May 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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• Performance benchmarking methodology. • Configuring the systems under test to produce the best performance possible. This includes the host system, the VMware software, and the guest system. • Ensuring that the tests are making “apples-to-apples” comparisons. The paper also includes examples of common pitfalls that can affect the accuracy or relevance of the results obtained by benchmarking tests. The guidelines in this paper are intended to assist in the acquisition of meaningful, accurate, and repeatable benchmarking results. These guidelines are useful when you perform comparisons between VMware Workstation and either native systems or other virtualization products, as well as when you run benchmarks in virtual machines in general. The guidelines should not, however, be considered VMware best practices in all cases. Among other reasons, this is because benchmarking sometimes involves saturating one resource while overprovisioning others, something that would not be desirable in a production environment. Download here. (pdf)
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