How does VMmark work?
VMmark is designed as a tile-based benchmark consisting of a diverse set of workloads commonly found in the datacenter, including database server, file server, web server, and Java server. 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. (Future work will present data to demonstrate the ability of multiple tiles to measure performance of larger multiprocessor systems using a well-defined reference score). Each workload within a VMmark tile is constrained to execute at less than full utilization of it
