Virtualization & Consolidation - AMD's 12-core "Magny-Cours" Opteron 6174 vs. Intel's 6-core Xeon
VMmark - which we discussed in great detail here - tries to measure typical consolidation workloads: a combination of a light mail server, database, fileserver, and website with a somewhat heavier java application. One VM is just sitting idle, representative of workloads that have to be online but which perform very little work (for example,