Beginning December last year, VMware released version 2.0 of its benchmark framework VMmark 2.0. Where version 1.0 of the VMmark tool was focusing on the performance of a single virtualization host, the 2.0 version is focusing on measuring the performance of a whole virtual data center.
Cisco was the first OEM to publish its scores online on the website of VMware, with a score of 6.51 at 6 tiles, using the Cisco UCS B200 M2 hardware platform running on top of VMware ESX 4.1.0 build 260247.
Now Fujitsu posted a score of 6.81 at 7 tiles, using a Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX200 S6 configuration running VMware ESX 4.1/ vCenter 4.1.