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Alessandro, the interview is an interesting post and touches on benchmarking which has been discussed often lately. For question #3 above Rob talks about VMmark and I just wanted to clarify the points about the availability of VMmark:

VMmark methodology and data is available in several public forums, including a technical report, VMworld 2006, as well as in various blog postings (e.g. 1,2) on the subject.
In addition, VMware has spoken with many of our partners in detail about the VMmark methodology, and received a lot of great feedback about the benchmark design. Some of these partners, such as Intel, have been running and evaluating the benchmark for a while now.

The VMmark benchmark does include a set of scripts, but these are not closed. To the contrary, we supply those in source form with the benchmark and intend to continue to do so. The key contribution of VMmark is the methodology, which includes novel concepts such as tiling to capture the scalability of a system.
We released a private beta of VMmark last December and invited many of our partners, including IBM, to participate in the beta. We are currently working towards a public beta, followed by a general release. If your readers are interested in Vmmark, they can send us a request at vmmark-info@vmware.com and we'd be happy to work with them.

In parallel to our VMmark effort, VMware and almost a dozen other companies are part of the SPEC virtualization working group. We’re committed to working through SPEC to develop an industry standard virtualization benchmark

By  Vikram Makhija, at Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:36:00 PM 

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