VMware vSphere 5 with HP: Large Scale Virtualization Analysis

This report presents the results of ESG Lab testing of the performance and scalability of VMware vSphere 5 running large scale tier-1 applications. Testing was conducted with virtualized large scale application workloads running on industry standard x86 servers running VMware vSphere 5 virtualization software. The tests were designed to confirm that VMware virtualized infrastructure can be used to lower cost of ownership, increase scalability, and provide excellent performance while maintaining the reliability and availability required by tier-1 applications.