VMware VMmark hits beta
The new benchmarking system VMware is developing to measure and compare different virtualization platforms, VMmark, is now in beta.
To declare so is the company performance team from its new dedicated blog: VROOM!
Unfortunately at the moment there is nothing in particular to download, except the introductory whitepaper: VMmark: A Reliable Benchmarking System to Measure Virtual Machines Performances.
Developing a wide accepted performances measurement system is not easy, requiring recognition from partners and competitors.
So while a comment from players like Microsoft, SWsoft, Sun and others is waited, VMware is working to develop VMmark as a SPEC endorsed standard.
Meanwhile Intel and IBM, who are SPEC members as well, announced theirs plan to develop an independent benchmarking system.
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Two clarifications:
1. Although nothing else is publicly downloadable right now, the software is available to the beta participants. If people would like to participate in the next phase of the beta, they should write vmmark-info@vmware.com
2. It’s important to note the distinction between VMmark, a benchmark which is available in beta now, and future virtualization benchmarks from SPEC. SPEC doesn’t endorse 3rd party benchmarks – instead, VMware is participating in the working group with about a dozen other companies to develop a new virtualization benchmark that meets SPEC’s open standards and spans a variety of virtualization technologies.
As Vikram put it in his blog entry, “This [next-generation SPEC] effort, however, is a longer term effort and doesn't address the immediate needs customers have to compare platforms. VMmark fills that need, by providing a credible, standardized methodology for customers and OEMs to use.”
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jtroyer, at Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:59:00 AM
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