Sun X4270 Produces Excellent Result on VMware’s VMmark
Virtualization Benchmark Measures Performance, Scalability 
The Sun Fire X4270 server running VMware ESX 4.0 OS earned an excellent result on the virtualization benchmark VMmark from VMware for 8 core platforms. The Sun x64 server delivers near linear scalability under the heavy load conditions of the VMmark benchmark, whose purpose is to measure performance and scalability of a pre-established mix of workloads (a Tile), which allows comparisons among similar platforms.