And lastly, TotalView was run on a HPDL140 with four Intel Xeon CPUs at 3.2 GHz with 4.0GB of RAM.

We tapped into the many functions of each product to test its ability to manipulate, control and deliver information about virtual machines in each environment to us in a central location. The type of functions we tested were as follows:

• The ability to create new VMs onto each hypervisor platform.

• The ability to control and manipulate VMs using commands such as start, stop, shutdown, pause, resume, migrate, clone, copy and other commands.

• The ability of to monitor and report information about activity for VM and host.