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Who needs a million IOPS for a single VM?

Microsoft tried to compare storage performance results from the upcoming Windows Hyper-V 3 with experiments from a year-old vSphere whitepaper that used completely different configurations — see what happens when similar configurations are used. Continue reading

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VMware vMotion: Over 5 Times Faster Than Hyper-V Live Migration

Side-by-side tests show that VMware vMotion is over 5 times faster than Hyper-V Live Migration. Plus, vMotion is more reliable and protects application SLAs much better than Hyper-V. Continue reading

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VMware vSphere 5 outperforms Hyper-V by nearly 20%

Independent tests show VMware vSphere 5 outperforms Hyper-V R2 SP1 in overall performance, resource management, and scalability. Continue reading

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vSphere Thin-Provisioned Disk Performance

A new paper published by the VMware Performance Team shows that virtual disks using vStorage Thin Provisioning perform nearly as well as fully allocated thick disks. Continue reading

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Awesome performance through VMware DRS

Today VMware announced that performance gains of nearly 50 percent are achievable by dynamically balancing running virtual machines according to resource demand with VMware DRS. The VMware Performance Team has repeatedly demonstrated how vSphere is the superior platform for your … Continue reading

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