
VMWare ESXi vs. Citrix XenServer vs. Microsoft Hyper-V Performance Comparison
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 D Graphics Memory Disk ESXi 54.3 64.3 30.3 68.9 94.1 XenServer 41.7 62.7 13.5 88.3 31.1 Hyper-V 53.9 62.2 61.9 96.8 75.7 IO Meter Summary – IOPS WFS 4KB DSS DB 1MB M STR 64KB SQL SL 64KB OS P 64KB WSL 8KB EXCH 4KB WS 8KB