Hi All,
VMmark 2.5 has been released.
The most notable change in VMmark 2.5 is the addition of optional power measurements for servers and servers plus storage.
VMmark 2.5 contains a number of other improvements including:
- Support for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance.
- Support for VMmark 2.5 message and results delivery via Growl/Prowl.
- Support for PowerCLI 5.1.
- Updated workload virtual machine templates made from SLES for VMware, a free use version of SLES 11 SP2.
- Improved pre-run initialization checking.
All currently published VMmark 2.0 and 2.1 results are comparable to VMmark 2.5 performance-only results. Beginning on January 8th 2013, any submission of benchmark results must use the VMmark 2.5 benchmark kit
Full release notes can be found here.
For more info on the release check out the VROOM! posting here.
-Joshua
