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PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – July 8, 2009) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced that VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) — a unique feature of VMware vSphereâ„¢ 4 can boost total application performance by up to 47 percent.

VMware DRS, originally introduced with VMware Infrastructure 3 in June 2006, continuously monitors virtual machine utilization across resource pools and intelligently balances computing capacity to deliver optimal application performance and to align computing resources with business needs.

Recent lab tests were conducted with a mix of heavily- and lightly-utilized Microsoft SQL Server databases running in virtual machines on a VMware vSphere cluster with four VMware vSphere hosts. Using DRS resulted in a 47 percent higher aggregate database transaction throughput compared to an environment with no virtual machine load balancing. The results demonstrate convincingly that dynamic virtual machine load balancing is a must-have requirement, not only for greater hardware utilization through higher consolidation ratio, but also for virtualizing business critical applications.

“These tests demonstrate how VMware DRS optimizes efficiency while providing guaranteed levels of performance. This allows customers to maximize the potential of their datacenter resources, in an automated, controlled way,” said Dr. Stephen Herrod, chief technology officer and senior vice president of R&D at VMware. “VMware vSphere 4 is the only virtualization platform that includes a dynamic virtual machine load balancing capability. By optimizing resource use, DRS enables customers to achieve higher consolidation ratios, resulting in the lowest overall cost per application. DRS is one of the many features that make VMware vSphere the best choice for virtualizing all of your applications.”

Very cool, anything VMware can do to improve the customer experience, and scale of the virtual environment has to be a good thing, I’m off to check out more on vmware.com

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