VMware has released a new version of their VMmark benchmarking tool. The new version has a mix of 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines to better reflect current environments.
Significant changes from VMmark 1.0 are listed below:
- The database server virtual machine has been updated from 32-bit Novell SLES 10 to 64-bit Novell SLES 10 SP1.
- The web server virtual machine has been updated from 32-bit Novell SLES 10 to 64-bit Novell SLES 10 SP1.
- The fileserver virtual machine has been updated from 32-bit Novell SLES 10 to 32-bit Novell SLES 10 SP1.
- The Java server virtual machine has been updated from 32-bit to 64-bit Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
- The Java server virtual machine now enables large-page support.
- The clients and the webserver virtual machines now use SPECweb2005 v1.20 (or later) due to output format changes.
- The benchmark harness now detects and corrects thread count errors in Loadsim.
- Tilescore defects have been fixed and time synchronization improved.
- The deprecated Java options in the Java server workload parameters are removed.
- The tilescore script is enhanced to process partial results.
- The VMware VMmark Benchmarking Guide has been updated.
- The VMware VMmark Tuning Guide has been updated.
- The Run and Reporting Rules for VMmark has been updated.
- The disclosure.html template is improved.