The updated benchmark scores are still being posted on VMware’s VMmark site, and when checking in on the vSphere 4.0 numbers, I came across something I found very interesting.

The Cisco “Unified Computing” Blade servers, specifically the B200-M1 model, had its results posted—it came in as the champion of the “8 Core” servers. But even more impressive than that was the fact that the Cisco B200-M1 with the new Intel Nehalem processors on ESX 4.0 scored higher than the best 16 and 24 core servers on ESX 3.5—and with only 2 sockets. Awesome!