2012 - SAP-SD Benchmark running in a VM – Leadership Performance using RHEL 6 / KVM

RHEL 6 / KVM demonstrated excellent virtualization efficiency (of 85%) by achieving an SAP SD benchmark result of:
   - 10,700 SAP SD users using a RHEL 6 / KVM virtual machine versus
   - 12,560 SAP SD users using RHEL 6 on a bare-metal system
both running on identical hardware.

RHEL 6 / KVM demonstrated the best SAP SD benchmark performance among all published SAP SD results using various virtualization technologies:
   - 10,700 SAP SD users using a RHEL 6.2/KVM virtual machine versus
   - 4,600 SAP SD users using a VMware vSphere 5 virtual machine versus
   - 501 SAP SD users using a Micorsoft Windows Hyper-V virtual machine.