Need tools for comparing virtual machine performance across different platforms, but no money in your IT budget? Here are a few suggestions. Chris: For my benchmarking, I have to use free tools like ...

Vmware has launched a new tool to test the performance of virtualised systems, which in the past has been difficult to pin down despite the benefits of virtualisation. VMmark measures the performance ...

Rich McDougall and Scott Drummand, performance gurus over at VMware, presented a fantastic review of some of the performance testing VMware has been doing at the VMware analyst day. I posted something ...

If you want to improve and optimize Hyper-V VM Performance on your Windows computer, go through the tips and tweaks mentioned below. Dynamic Memory lets you add more memory to a virtual machine (VM) ...

Expanding into virtual network and virtualization testing, Ixia has launched the IxVM platform to enable data-center managers to assess virtual infrastructure performance and capacity. IxVM builds on ...

VMware has released a whitepaper that shows performance increases in vSphere 6.0 over vSphere 5.5. It has some interesting results -- how real-world valuable they are is another matter. One of the ...