Performance Tuning Corporation recently published a new whitepaper about Performance of Oracle 10gR2 Database on Hyper-v. You can review it at http://www.perftuning.com/pdf/Oracle%2010g%20on%20Hyper-V%202008%20Paper.pdf
The paper compares the performance using the public doman Swnigbench kit. Both OLTP and OLAP scenarios are covered. Impressive results show near physical performance on pass thorough disks. Read the full paper today.
Application:
SwingBench Order Entry - Full OLTP Transaction Mix (4 CPUs)
Benchmark Scenario
TotalConcurrentUsers
Avg.CPUUtilization
StorageUtilization
MemoryUtilization(4GB SGA)
SwapUtilization
AverageTPMsAchieved
MaxTPMsAchieved
AverageTPSsAchieved
MaxTPSsAchieved
HyperV01
50
95%
64% / 74%
46%
0%
16,916
18,634
294
407
Physical01
92%
66% / 75%
44%
17,071
19,637
299
445
SwingBench Order Entry – “Browse-Only” Transaction Mix (4 CPUs)
15%
43%
48,463
51,196
844
876
10%
66% / 78%
42%
47,148
52,290
819
891