There has been a lot of talk on Hyper-V vs ESX performance. I can imagine that no one believes performance statements coming from either VMware or Microsoft. Kenon Owens from VMware posted a blog article on this topic. Yes Kenon is from VMware but the performance tests has been done by an independent company.
The complete performance test has been captured in one graph:
Read Kenon’s blog for more info. Great article,
I’m sold. VMware all the way.
Hmm, i wouldn’t draw that much from this data.
The testbed was nowhere near the same – the x3850 uses a IBM X4 memory controller with more available bandwidth (more sticks) than the Intel whiteboard server.
Of course, this probably wouldn’t explain the major discrepancy seen in the database benchmark.