Run your business-critical applications, including Exchange, SQL, SAP, and Oracle, on VMware vSphere with breakthrough performance and outstanding reliability. Consolidate all your x86 servers and minimize infrastructure costs while building a flexible cloud computing infrastructure delivering business-critical applications as dynamic, cost-efficient, and reliable IT services. Accelerate application delivery with on-demand provisioning, automated release cycles and streamlined testing and troubleshooting.
- Virtualize Exchange and match or exceed native performance while reducing infrastructure footprint
- SharePoint Server is more scalable, available and flexible on a virtual infrastructure with reduced hardware requirements
- Consolidate SQL Server databases and cut hardware and software costs by more than 50%
- Virtualize Oracle applications, middleware and databases and leverage storage, network and computing resources
- Run SAP on VMware and dynamically rebalance applications as needed
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Run your Most Demanding Applications on Virtual Machines
VMware continually improves the performance of ESX with each new version. Today’s virtual machines can support the most demanding applications, thanks to performance capabilities such as:
- 8 Virtual CPUs and 256 GB of memory per VM
- Performance overhead limited to less than 10% to 20%
- ESX support for > 200,000 IOPS
- 40 Gbps ESX network bandwidth
At these levels of performance, more than 95% of the 700,000 applications we have measured in our customer base deliver comparable levels of performance running in a virtual machine as on physical servers, including the majority of large 8-CPU databases.
" I am extremely happy with the overall performance of BES, Exchange and SAP running on ESX. Some people question whether those applications can run in a virtualized environment. I’m here to say that they absolutely can, because we’re doing it right now. Those and other mission-critical applications run extremely smoothly on ESX and we have no performance issues at all. "
— Bill Moore, IT Infrastructure Manager, Nuvasive Inc.
Scale Multiple Virtual Machines on Large Multicore Servers
Hardware is continuing to evolve down the path of packing an ever-increasing number of processor cores per chip. Unfortunately, very few applications are sufficiently multi-threaded to truly scale to the full capacity of these servers. Break through application scalability limitations by scaling out on multiple virtual machines and enabling multiple instances to share a single server. Leverage the full CPU capacity of large multicore servers while better utilizing memory and preserving isolation between instances.
See 100% Increase in Exchange Throughput
For example, the Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server running on physical servers can only scale to about 8 processor cores and support about 8,000 heavy mailbox users, whether running on an 8-core or 16-core server. Exchange Mailbox Servers running on VMware can be scaled out to achieve record server throughput of 16,000 heavy mailbox users by leveraging the full capacity of a 16-core server. This throughput is achieved by scaling Exchange out on 8 Virtual Machines, each supporting 2,000 heavy mailbox users.
VMware Sets Performance Record for Web Servers with SPECweb2005 Result
VMware published the largest SPECweb2005 score to date on a 16 core server. This record score of 44,000 includes an ecommerce component demonstrating 69,525 concurrent connections. While record-setting performance of web servers proves the capabilities of ESX, the real story of web server virtualization is the gains from web farm consolidation and improved flexibility. Web front end infrastructure today is designed around hundreds or even thousands of often underutilized two and four core servers. Consolidation of these servers onto modern systems with multi-core CPUs reduces costs, simplifies management and eases power and cooling demands.
More information on VMware performance, including benchmarks and best practices, can be found in our performance pages and the VROOM! blog.
