VMware, along with our partner HP, are excited to announce the world’s first TPC-VMS benchmark result!
Many organizations and their operations teams are still not confident that databases can be virtualized successfully. It has been VMware’s experience though that performance should no longer be a barrier to continued adoption of database workloads on vSphere. By leveraging this 3rd party, audited benchmark, we hope to increase customer confidence that vSphere is the best platform for all your enterprise applications.
Let’s take a look at this benchmark
Who is the Transaction Processing Performance Council (www.tpc.org)?
The TPC is a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry. Its membership consists of:
What is TPC-VMS?
This TPC defined benchmark models a database consolidation scenario by running an OLTP workload in 3 virtual machines side by side. The benchmark demands 3 virtual machines rather than one to validate resource allocation and arbitration of the virtual platform thus ensuring a true high performance consolidation scenario is evaluated. The primary metric is the lowest of the 3 OLTP workload scores.
Why TPC-VMS?
Databases constitute a large number of existing environment workloads and the industry is looking for a benchmark to aid in comparisons.
Databases are perceived to suffer from high virtualization overhead and poor performance so a benchmark can help expose that if it does exist.
The benchmark results are audited by certified TPC experts thereby ensuring transparency, fairness and integrity.
Basically it’s promoting database virtualization.
The Configuration Details:
The test bed consisted of the following configuration:
TPC rules prevent direct comparison of two differing benchmark results, as after all, they are different benchmarks with a different methodologies even though they rely on similar TPC-E workloads. Still, this should be reassuring to customers that database consolidation scenarios are not only viable, but extremely efficient as well with little virtualization overhead.
The Takeaways:
HP and VMware published the world’s 1st TPC-VMS benchmark result.
Compliant and audited by a 3rd party.
While not a direct comparison, you can see how database consolidation scenarios could achieve near native capabilities on the same hardware.
Confidence you can virtualize databases today without performance penalties.
