Large Advantages Found in Power VM Versus VMware vSphere White Paper (Edison Group)

Posted on by Joe Hertvik

IBM has an interesting white paper posted comparing the Power VM Virtualization technology found on IBM Power 7 servers against VMware vSphere 4.1 & 5.0 Virtualization Performance on Intel x86 platforms. Big Blue engaged the Edison Group to do this paper.

The paper features a number of interesting comparisons including a much better consolidation ratio for ratio for Power VM on an IBM Power 750 system; much higher performance in running multiple VMs and workloads; as well as absolute throughput performance improvements.

The paper makes one interesting point in saying that vSphere 5 demonstrated no throughput performance improvement over vSphere 4.1 upgrade 1. On the contrary, the paper states that vSphere 5 demonstrated slightly lower performance overall than vSphere 4.1 upgrade 1.

You can read the paper for yourself before deciding by clicking here.

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