I performed these tests about 2 years ago now but I would imagine the results would still be similar.

I have attached several documents which show my findings for the performance of the 3 different Virtualization platforms running on the same hardware with the same guest OS.

 

Passmark Test

D Graphics54.364.330.368.994.162.713.588.362.296.875.7

	Main	CPU		Memory	Disk
ESXi
XenServer	41.7
31.1
Hyper-V	53.9	61.9

 

IO Meter Summary – IOPS

4 117 05 32 9 0197530533695512645989 506 66 60 19

	WFS 4KB	DSS DB 1MB	M STR 64KB	SQL SL 64KB	OS P 64KB	WSL 8KB	EXCH 4KB	WS 8KB	VOD 512KB
ESXi	40
00
37	13
XenServer	31
0
Hyper-V	30	7	14

 

See the attached document for more

Virtualization Performance Comparison

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