Empirical Analysis of Server Consolidation and Desktop Virtualization in Cloud Computing

Table 6

C/P ratio of hypervisor (cost unit: US$).

Hypervisor	Composite index	Operation cost	C/P ratio	Operation cost	C/P ratio	Operation cost	C/P ratio
		𝛼=0.5, 𝛽=0.5		𝛼=0.2, 𝛽=0.8		𝛼=0.6, 𝛽=0.4
ESXi 5.0	1517.8	12,667	8.3	12,667	8.3	12,667	8.3
Hyper-V R2	1640.3	8,656	5.3	6,449	3.9	9,391	5.7
Proxmox VE	1423.5	3,560	2.5	1,896	1.3	4,115	2.9
KVM	1385.6	3,718	2.7	2,149	1.6	4,241	3.1
Xen	1228.6	4,373	3.6	3,197	2.6	4,765	3.9