Microsoft responds to VMware performance benchmark report

• Matt Liebowitz
• October 25, 2011October 25, 2011
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VMware recently commissioned a study comparing performance between vSphere 5 and Hyper-V 2.0 SP1.  The study involves virtual machines running a database simulation workload with 24 VMs (without memory overcommit) and 30 VMs (with memory overcommit).  The results show that VMware vSphere outperforms Hyper-V in each scenario. The original performance report can be found here (opens a PDF): http://www.principledtechnologies.com/clients/reports/VMware/vsphere5density0811.pdf Microsoft…