AMD demonstrates live migration across three generations of CPUs

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AMD today released video and images of Live Migration (VMotion) across three generations of processors. Thanks to AMD-V Extended Migration instructions in the latest generations of CPUs, combined with VMware’s Enhanced VMotion Compatibility feature (released with ESX 3.5 Update 2 last summer) AMD is able to migrate machines running on 65-nm hardware from yesteryear to [...]

24Mar2009 | Lode Vermeiren | 1 comment | Continued

AMD / Red Hat Pull Off A Live Migration of VMs Across Vendor Platforms

AMD, in collaboration with Red Hat, today demonstrated for the first time “live migration†of a virtual machine across vendor platforms. Live migration enables the movement of running virtual machines (VMs) from one physical server to another without disrupting service to the end user, something that, till now, has only been demonstrated across systems based on one vendor’s platforms.

10Nov2008 | Robin Wauters | 1 comment | Continued

Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor Sets New Benchmark for Virtualization Performance on the VMware Platform

AMD today announced it has achieved the top spot on the VMware VMmark virtualization benchmark for x86 servers with the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based HP ProLiant DL585 G5. AMD now holds the top three spots on the 16-core VMmark benchmark.

25Aug2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Red Hat Embraces AMD Virtualization Capabilities In HP Servers

Red Hat today announced its support for virtualization capabilities offered by AMD processors in new HP servers. The company’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 platform supports AMD’s Rapid Virtualization Indexing technology, for more efficient use of memory management on Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.

22Apr2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

3Leaf Systems Obtains Intel License For CPU Virtualization

3Leaf Systems today announced it has obtained a license for Intel’s QuickPath Interconnect, which will allow it to build virtualization support for Intel servers. Previously, the company only had a HyperTransport license and only supported AMD servers.

31Mar2008 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued

Red Hat Isn’t Exhibiting ‘Xen’-Ophobia

Quoting Jason Brooks from
eWeek:
Red Hat’s announcement March 14 of its integrated virtualization push, starring Xen, didn’t take anyone by surprise: Red Hat, along with just about everybody else, has been tooting the Xen horn ever since the fledgling open-source virtualization technology began grabbing headlines almost a year ago.
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The trouble is that Xen is somewhat [...]

20Mar2006 | Robin Wauters | 0 comments | Continued