VMware has released the first public beta of a VM benchmarking tool VMark. Until now, VMware has refused to allow anyone, via its licensing terms, to benchmark its products. But here's the first concrete evidence that it's being forced by market pressure into changing its policy. The company's plans to produce it were first revealed last year just before VMworld, the company's annual developer/user conference.
VMmark is intended to measure performance in an enterprise consolidation scenario, said the company's Bruce Herndon in its performance-oriented blog, VROOM!. Herndon said that "it is a benchmark for the entire virtualisation platform and, after outlining system requirements, said: "Primary users of VMmark will be both vendors and power users wishing to characterise various virtualisation platforms."
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