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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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Depends on the OS, Apparently

Curious about the impact of virtualization on benchmarking results? Jan Brosowski blogged in SAPonSun about testing two “half-box” virtual machines on the same box. He discovered a striking difference.

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Comparative Testing Between Virtualized and Non-virtualized Instances

Anyone running or considering running MySQL Server on VMware Infrastructure should take some time to read a best practices and performance guide by Mike Frank, Jennifer Glore, and Adina Kalin. The three cover recent testing conducted by Sun/MySQL and VMware where virtualized instances of MySQL Server instances running on VMware ESX were compared to non-virtualized MySQL Server instances running on an equivalent hardware server.

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Scalability and Reliability Lead French Radio Broadcaster to Sun Technologies

Needing to completely rebuild its Windows-based Web portal and ASP.NET-based applications to support a larger audience with new services, radio broadcaster RTL France began shopping around for a cost-effective, energy-efficient, and easy to manage IT environment that would be reliable and scalable. Open source solutions were its preference. RTL France decided to build a new portal infrastructure using Sun CoolThreads and x64 servers, running Solaris 10. For its applications, Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server proved fast and scalable.

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Virtualization Saves Cooling Costs, Valuable Shipboard Real Estate

Faced with the need to manage server sprawl in shipboard datacenters; to optimize use of real estate, power and cooling in shipboard datacenters; to design redundant IT systems for current and future megaships; and to replace outdated technology, Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) implemented Sun solutions that enabled the company to realize all four goals.

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