Servers equipped with the Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series and VMware® vSphere™ 4 provide a powerful platform for today's data-driven organizations. This joint platform can enable organizations to reliably power the wide range of enterprise applications while adding advanced capabilities to help improve availability. Successfully combining leading processing power with advanced virtualization, servers with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series and VMware vSphere 4 provide the scalable performance, reliability, and flexibility that organizations need to keep their demanding mission-critical applications running well.

This white paper documents the performance of mission-critical database workloads running on servers equipped with the Intel Xeon processor 7500 series and VMware vSphere 4.