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How we tested virtual machine environments

13.04.2009
For a product to be included in this round of testing, it had to be able to manage two or more server virtualization platforms from a list consisting of VMware's ESX 3.5, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Citrix's newly 'free' XenServer 5.0.

For virtual machine environments we deployed one Citrix XenServer 5.0 server, two VMware ESX 3.5 servers and two Microsoft Hyper-V servers.

Microsoft SC-VMM was installed on one of the Hyper-V machines.

VMware VirtualCenter and CA's NSM/ASM were running as virtual machines both using Windows 2003 Server R2 on the XenServer 5.0 machine. VirtualCenter was assigned two vCPUs and 2GB RAM while NSM was assigned four vCPUs and 4GB RAM.

DynamicOps VRM was installed inside a virtual machine with 2GB of RAM on the SC-VMM machine using Windows 2003 Server R2.

Insystek's TotalView ran on a separate machine using Windows XP SP2.