Need tools for comparing virtual machine performance across different platforms, but no money in your IT budget? Here are a few suggestions. Chris: For my benchmarking, I have to use free tools like ...

Vmware has launched a new tool to test the performance of virtualised systems, which in the past has been difficult to pin down despite the benefits of virtualisation. VMmark measures the performance ...

Rich McDougall and Scott Drummand, performance gurus over at VMware, presented a fantastic review of some of the performance testing VMware has been doing at the VMware analyst day. I posted something ...

Using performance testing tools, developers and IT teams can catch performance issues early and adjust the application and its compute and network resources to optimize performance and eliminate ...

ESX pulled down top honors in most of our basic load testing, multi-CPU VM hosting, and disk I/O performance tests. Microsoft’s Hyper-V, however, did well in a few cases, namely when we used a special ...

If you want to improve and optimize Hyper-V VM Performance on your Windows computer, go through the tips and tweaks mentioned below. Dynamic Memory lets you add more memory to a virtual machine (VM) ...

When the dust settled in the lab after two long months of testing Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware’s ESX in the areas of performance, compatibility, management, and security, it all boiled down to two ...