Host system
OS: Windows 10 Pro 2004
RAM: 32GB DDR3
CPU: AMD FX 8350 @ 4.12GHz (8 cores)
Storage: 2TB Sabrent Rocket NVMe M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD
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Virtualisation platforms
VMware Workstation 16 Pro
Windows 10 Hyper-V
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Guest OS specs on both platforms
CPU: 4 cores
RAM: 8GB
Storage: 64GB NVMe class thick provision (also tried SCSI for marginally better results on Workstation)
OS: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia
Note: VMware tools was installed in the guest OS
Note: The tests were run with only one virtualisation platform being installed at a time so no co-existence causing any conflicts.
Note: On Hyper-V I had not got around to uninstalling VMware Tools and installing Hyper-V equivalent and the VM had been converted using the Starwind V2V Converter
I’ve had poor SSD performance on Workstation 14, 15 and now 16 with these huge I/O stalls.
The average read speed seems comparable to Hyper-V, but those dips are realtime and make the benchmark test take measurably longer than when run in Hyper-V.
VMware Workstation 16 Pro
Windows 10 Pro Hyper-V