First VMmark 4.1 Power-Performance and VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Results

We’re excited to announce two new VMmark results today from Dell Technologies:

• First VCF 9.1 Benchmarks: These are the first results using VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1. VCF 9.1 maximizes hardware efficiency using a Next-Gen Topology-Aware CPU Scheduler that optimizes memory and cache locality for intensive enterprise workloads. A separate VCF 9.1 evaluation demonstrated a 12% reduction in CPU utilization using its new Memory Tiering enhancements.
  
• First VMmark 4.1 Results: These results are also the first to use VMmark 4.1, the latest release of our free enterprise virtualization benchmarking tool. While VMmark 4.0 measures private cloud performance and scalability, VMmark 4.1 adds power measurement with a Performance Per Kilowatt (PPKW) score. For example, Dell’s new Server Power-Performance result is 1.5255 PPKW @ 4.6 tiles. This can be helpful for understanding and comparing how much power different environments need to complete the same amount of work.

Using the exact same servers, processors, and storage array, the new VCF 9.1 results outperformed VCF 5.2 with an 11% higher performance score and a 10% higher tile count. This means that for this environment, simply upgrading to VCF 9.1 allowed more VMs to be run, completing even more work. The hardware configuration and benchmark score comparisons are detailed below:

VMmark 4

VMware VMmark 4 is a free cluster-level benchmarking 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 the resources below:

• VMmark 4.1: Enhanced Power Efficiency Benchmarking for Private Cloud Infrastructure
• VMmark 4 Results
• VMmark FAQ (Scores, Tiles, Use Cases)
• VMmark Download
• Try VMmark 4.1 in less than 60 seconds via VMware Hands-on Labs:
  VMmark 4.1: Performance Benchmarking Real-World Application Workloads in VCF 9.1 (Module 3)

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