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VMWare ESXi vs. Citrix XenServer vs. Microsoft Hyper-V Performance Comparison

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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

Main CPU 2D Graphics Memory Disk
ESXi 654.3 864.3 830.3 568.9 294.1
XenServer 741.7 862.7 213.5 588.3 931.1
Hyper-V 753.9 862.2 361.9 596.8 275.7

 

IO Meter Summary – IOPS

WFS 4KB DSS DB 1MB M STR 64KB SQL SL 64KB OS P 64KB WSL 8KB EXCH 4KB WS 8KB VOD 512KB 
ESXi 340 44 1117 205 700 232 337 313 69
XenServer 731 50 1197 1530 653 13695 651 626 90
Hyper-V 730 77 914 1459 489 6506 666 660 119

 

See the attached document for more

Virtualization Performance Comparison

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