vSphere vs Hyper-V - Test Environment and Testing Methods

This is the test environment that I used to make the comparisons:

 

·        AMD Phenom II 3.3 GHz

·        8 GB RAM

·        1TB Hitachi 7200 RPM HD SATA 2 interface

·        1GB Onboard network interface

·        vSphere 5

·        Hyper-V role installed on Windows 2008 R2 SP1

·        2 x Windows 7 SP1 VM with integration services

·        2 x CentOS 6.2 VM with integration services v3.2

·        Simple custom benchmarks using ActiveState perl v5.14

·        cpu.pl, disk.pl, mem.pl, net.pl scripts

 

Testing methods

 

 

 

The Hyper-V dynamic memory feature was enabled on Windows VMs, as that was one of the main features I wanted to look at. A starting minimum memory value of 512 MB was configured for the Windows VMs.

Linux VMs were statically configured with 2GB and the memory script was calibrated to use between 1.5 and 1.8GB of RAM.

Two of the machines were configured with 2vCPU’s rather than 1, and no pass-through I/O was used.

Both individual and combined VM workload tests were run as outlined in the graphic above.

 

On Monday I'll start showing you the results of the tests.

 

Dale Feiste

Consultant