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WPI's latest ESX 3 Benchmark

Our analysis shows the capacity of the physical machine was 35 users. The virtual machine had a capacity of 30 users - a decrease of 14% from the baseline capacity. This analysis, along with a variety of charts is produced automatically in Load Tester's Load Test Report. Consult the User Capacity section of the test reports for more details on this analysis (see references). The charts shown below are extracted from that report section. The red line on the chart depicts the maximum of each average page duration as measured during each sample period. The location where that line crosses the duration threshold indicates the point where performance no longer met the criteria. Had any errors occurred during the test, the yellow line would depict the error rate and indicate when it crossed the error threshold.



Physical Machine Page durations



Virtual Machine Page durations



Read the whole report here and ask yourself why aren't you doing DaaS.
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