The Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 was installed on our Windows 2008 Server domain controller, which was running in a Parallels Desktop 4.0 virtual machine on an Intel XServe hardware platform and was assigned 2GB of RAM. The XServe running MacOS X 10.5.6 also served as our NFS/SMB file hosting machine.

The first VMware ESX 3.5 host and the first Hyper-V host environments were running on an HP DL580G5 server with 16 Intel Xeon MP CPUs (on four total sockets) each running at 2.93GHz with 32GB of RAM. We ran dual-booting processes between ESX and Hyper-V for the tests.

The second ESX 3.5 host environment was running on a Dell PowerEdge 1950 server with eight Intel Xeon CPUs at 1.86 GHz and 4GB of RAM.

The second Hyper-V platform (also installed with SC-VMM) ran on a HP DL160G5 server with four Intel Xeon CPUs at 2.99 GHz with 4GB of RAM. 

The XenServer 5.0 VM platform was running on a Dell PowerEdge 1950 server with eight Intel Xeon CPUs running at 2.493 GHz with 16GB of RAM.