How was VMmark developed?
Nearly two years of engineering effort has gone into the design and implementation of the benchmark culminating in a private beta release in December, 2006 and the current public beta (launched in July 2007) as a part of VMware’s normal product release cycle. In the effort to build a reliable and robust benchmark that truly represents customer environments, VMware has taken into account extensive survey data from its customers to understand what types of applications and configurations are typically run in virtualized environments. VMware has also worked closely with its partners to design and implement the benchmark across various software and hardware platforms. Throughout the course of the benchmark development, VMware has also evaluated numerous workloads and run hundreds of experiments to make sure that the benchmark is reliable and robust.
