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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.

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Record-breaking Results Prove Sun Fire x64 Servers Offer Business Benefits

New world record results have been set by Sun’s x64 servers on VMmark, TPC-H, and SPECweb2005 benchmarks and customers are taking note. Sun reports several customers have selected Sun Fire x64 servers to power deployments in industries ranging from education to telecommunications to media and entertainment.

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