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ISS Technology Update Table 1-2. Recent HP ProLiant VMmark results System Processors ProLiant DL385 G5p 2 ProLiant DL585 G5 4 ProLiant DL785 G5 8 Cores 8 16 32 Volume 8, Number 2 VMmark score 11.28 @ 8 tiles 20.43 @ 14 tiles 27.71 @ 19 tiles Certification of VMmark results VMware maintains a review process for validating and approving VMmark benchmarks. These benchmark scores are published on the VMware website: http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/results.html The future for virtualization and virtualization benchmarks Updates to the VMmark benchmark The VMmark benchmark can be run on different versions of the ESX hypervisor, which will influence the results. When evaluating VMmark results, it is always important to compare results that use the same software platform. As of February 2009, the latest released platform from VMware is ESX v3.5.0 Update 3. VMware has also released VMmark 1.1 in August 2008. VMmark 1.1 changes the operating systems for two of the virtual machines in the VMmark tile. The Java server and Database server virtual machines now use the 64-bit versions of the Windows and Linux operating systems respectively. Work on an industry standard virtualization benchmark The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), which is responsible for developing and maintaining standardized benchmarks used in the industry, is committed to developing standard methods of comparing virtualization performance. The SPEC Virtualization Committee, which began as a working group in late 2006, is currently working to create an industry standard benchmark that can be used to evaluate virtualization performance for data center servers. While a specific release date for this benchmark has not yet been set, the SPEC Virtualization Committee's efforts are readily available at http://www.spec.org/specvirtualization. Both HP and VMware, along with many other leading companies, are members of SPEC as well as participants in the Virtualization Committee. Additional resources For additional information on the topics discussed in this article, visit the following websites: Source VMware VMmark homepage SPEC Virtualization Committee homepage Overview of the VMmark benchmark on HP ProLiant servers white paper HP VMmark page Hyperlink http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark/ http://www.spec.org/specvirtualization/ ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/benchmarks/VMmark _Overview.pdf http://www.hp.com/go/vmware/vmmark 3