Empirical Analysis of Server Consolidation and Desktop Virtualization in Cloud Computing

Table 5

Comparison of storage-accessing speed performance.

Storage-accessing speed performance	Timing cached reads (MB/sec)	Timing buffered disk reads (MB/sec)	Composite index	Normalized composite index
ESXi 5.0	11007.21	11.16	2210.4	1
Hyper-V R2	10475.72	9.33	2102.6	0.95
Proxmox VE	10287.88	9.98	2065.6	0.93
KVM	10503.85	9.75	2108.6	0.95
Xen	10160.47	9.55	2039.7	0.92