If you keep up with the blogosphere surrounding hypervisors, you may already know that there is no love lost between VMware’s Scott Drummonds and Citrix’s Simon Crosby. These two gentlemen recently had an on-stage debate on hypervisor performance and measurement methodology at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference. This debate was recorded and posted online. It is called “The Thrilla in California”. I watched this video today, it is indeed a “thrilla”. Scott and Simon are diametrically opposed on several issues. Following in the Burton Group’s description of the session:

“For the past 2 years, Citrix and VMware have used the blogosphere as their virtual sparring ground for a debate on hypervisor performance. While each vendor has contributed a wealth of information on virtual infrastructure performance to the online community, both continue to passionately disagree on how their respective hypervisors stand up to enterprise-class production workloads, as well as how best to measure performance in virtual environments. In this debate, VMware and Citrix have offered their most knowledgeable and passionate voices in the realm of virtual infrastructure performance: Simon Crosby (CTO - Citrix) and Scott Drummonds (Manager, Technical Marketing VMware). In this fast-paced debate, come to hear both vendors take off the gloves and get to the bottom of where their hypervisors stand with regards to performance. Attendees will have an opportunity to provide questions for the debaters, and the following topics will also be addressed:

• Technical nuances that offer the greatest performance benefit/detriment to VMware and Xen hypervisors
• Effective methods for measuring hypervisor performance
• Barriers to performance scalability

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