# First VMmark 4.1 Power-Performance and VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Results

DevFeed: [First VMmark 4.1 Power-Performance and VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Results](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/first-vmmark-4-1-power-performance-and-vmware-cloud-foundation-9-1-results-31416.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2026/09/16/first-vmmark-4-1-power-performance-and-vcf-9-1-results/>)

Author: vmwareblogs

Published: 2026-09-16T18:20:25Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [VMware Blogs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/vmware-blogs.md>)

Topics: [vcf 9.1](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vcf-9-1.md>), [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmarking.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [virtualization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/virtualization.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>)

Tags: [benchmarking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmarking.md>), [benchmarks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmarks.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [dell](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dell.md>), [efficiency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/efficiency.md>), [home-page](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/home-page.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [vcf-9-1](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vcf-9-1.md>), [vmmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vmmark.md>), [vmware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vmware.md>), [vmware-cloud-foundation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vmware-cloud-foundation.md>), [vsphere](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vsphere.md>), [vsphere-9-1](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vsphere-9-1.md>)

## AI overview

VMware reports Dell Technologies benchmark results using VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 and VMmark 4.1. The article describes VMmark 4.1's power-performance measurement and reports higher performance and tile count for VCF 9.1 than VCF 5.2 in the tested environment.

## Source excerpt

We're excited to announce two new VMmark results today from Dell Technologies: First VCF 9.1 Benchmarks: These are the first results using VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1. VCF 9.1 maximizes hardware efficiency using a Next-Gen Topology-Aware CPU Scheduler that optimizes memory and cache locality for intensive enterprise workloads. A separate VCF 9.1 evaluation demonstrated a ... Continued The post First VMmark 4.1 Power-Performance and VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 Results appeared first on VMware Blogs.