We’re seeing increased adoption of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 by partners, and VMmark 4 benchmark results have recently been published by Dell Technologies, Lenovo, and Fsas Technologies using VCF 9.0.
In this blog, we’d like to highlight the first result published in 2026. There are several notable achievements with this new result from Dell:
- This is the first VCF 9.0 result to use VMware vSAN
- This result demonstrates that VCF 9.0 can scale private cloud performance using the latest compute, networking, and storage technologies, by using the latest AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series Server Processors, Broadcom NetXtreme®-E Series BCM57508 200G PCIe 4.0 Ethernet controllers, and a vSAN cluster with Micron 9550 NVMe SSDs.
- This is the overall #1 VMmark score as of February 4, 2026, even outperforming a similar result using a traditional Fibre Channel (FC) storage array:
| VCF Version | Primary Storage | Processor Model | Total Cores | VMmark 4 Score |
| 9.0.1.0 | VMware vSAN 9.0 ESA – All Flash | AMD EPYC 9965 | 1536 | 12.42 @ 15.4 tiles |
| 9.0.0.0 | FC SAN – Dell PowerMax 8000 | AMD EPYC 9965 | 1536 | 12.22 @ 14 tiles |
VMmark 4
VMware VMmark 4 is a free cluster-level benchmark tool used by hardware vendors and others to measure the performance and scalability of enterprise virtualization environments that has become the standard tool for this purpose. If you’d like to learn more about VMmark 4, refer to Introducing VMmark 4: A modernized private cloud server consolidation benchmark and VMmark Product FAQs.
Here are some resources to learn more:
- What’s New in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0
- VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Release Notes
- VMmark 4 Results
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