Virtualization for MySQL on VMware®: Best Practices and Performance Guide

In a nutshell, performance variance is minimal on a properly configured system, as shown in tests on a typical small to medium business level server with MySQL running in a VMware virtualized environment. This document explains how we reached this conclusion by describing the setup, configuration, and results from our testing. This information should be invaluable to anyone running or considering running MySQL Server on VMware Infrastructure.

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