How does VMmark v2 work?
VMmark 2.0 is designed as a tile-based benchmark consisting of a diverse set of workloads commonly found in the datacenter. The workloads comprising each tile are run simultaneously in separate virtual machines at load levels that are typical of virtualized environments. The performance of each workload is measured and then combined with the other workloads to form the score for the individual tile. Multiple tiles can be run simultaneously to increase the overall score. This approach allows smaller increases in system performance to be reflected by increased scores in a single tile and larger gains in system capacity to be captured to adding additional tiles. Each workload within a VMmark 2.0 tile is constrained to execute at less than full utilization of its virtual machine. The performance of each workload can vary to a degree with the speed and capabilities of the underlying system. For instance, disk-centric workloads might respond to the addition of a fast disk array with a more f
