Update: Project VRC Phase II version 2.0

Project VRC released their Phase II whitepaper in February 2010. Project VRC Phase II focuses completely on virtualizing terminal server workloads on the latest generation hardware and hypervisors.

After the release of the Phase II whitepaper, Project VRC received and vSphere patch from VMware. This update specifically addresses Hyper-threading performance of Terminal Server workloads on VMware vSphere 4.0.

Project VRC now releases an updated whitepaper: Project VRC Phase II, version 2.0. This whitepaper contains new tests, comparing Terminal Server workloads generated by Login VSI on VMware vSphere 4.0, Citrix XenServer 5.5 and Microsoft Hyper-V R2.

The main updated findings of “Project VRC Phase II version 2.0” whitepaper are:

• Considerable vSphere performance increase with VMware vSphere patch
• Update on best practices and recommended configuration
• Investigated: performance impact ASLR

The Phase II version 2.0 whitepaper is now available in the download section.