Performance of Enterprise Web Applications in Docker Containers on VMware vSphere 6.5

“In this paper, we explore the performance characteristics of a large enterprise web application running in
Docker containers deployed in VMware vSphere 6.5 virtual machines (VMs). In order to put the performance of
this deployment choice into context, we compare its performance to that of the same application running both
in vSphere 6.5 VMs without Docker containers and in Docker containers on an operating system (OS) running
directly on the bare-metal server. We also look at the performance impact of some common configuration
options in order to better understand the performance differences among these three configurations.”

Performance of Enterprise Web Applications in Docker Containers on VMware vSphere 6.5