VMmark 2.5
Oooh, a new version of VMmark is out. From Bruce Herndon on the VROOM! blog: I am pleased to announce the release of VMmark 2.5, the latest edition of VMware’s multi-host consolidation benchmark. The most notable change in VMmark 2.5 is the addition of optional power measurements for servers and servers plus storage. This capability will assist IT architects who wish to consider trade-offs in performance and power consumption when designing datacenters or evaluating new and emerging technologies, such as flash-based storage. A long time ago I was pretty skeptical of yet-another-benchmark, but it’s been useful to help compare physical hosts with virtual workloads. Unlike most benchmarks, the results from previous versions are still relevant to the new version. I …