Introducing AMD Virtualizatio

ntroducing AMD Virtualization™

Next-Generation AMD Opteron™ processors are designed to help end the “one server, one application” problem common in so many enterprises today. Most servers operate at less than 15 percent capacity, yet they still consume power and generate heat on a 24×7 basis. With native support for hardware-assisted AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™), Next-Generation AMD Opteron processors can help streamline the datacenter to achieve higher levels of efficiency and utilization.

Additionally, AMD’s integrated memory controller enhances virtualization and provides efficient virtual machine memory isolation for improved security and support of virtual users.
With AMD Virtualization, you can:

• Consolidate existing workloads: A single system can host disparate workloads along with their respective operating systems, middleware, and communications environments. Each workload continues to see a virtual environment that corresponds exactly to the physical environment of its earlier dedicated system, and while the virtual machines stand ready to respond to external requests they
  consume almost no machine resources or power in the absence of such
  requests.
• Facilitate the introduction of new applications:
  Instead of waiting for new hardware to begin development, IT can add new virtual machines to an existing physical server. Additionally, virtualization software environments can simplify the scheduling of planned hardware outages as well as the recovery from unplanned outages.
• Streamline software development: Developers must often adapt their code for a wide variety of operating system environments, and then test the code in those environments.
  Virtualization lets development organizations maintain a library of virtual machines corresponding to all the specific hardware and software environments on which their software runs.
• Ease migration to new operating systems: For client and server applications, virtualization supports multiple virtual machines, each running different versions of the same operating system. IT can then migrate specific applications at a pace convenient to IT and the end-user.

Learn more about Next-Generation AMD Opteron™ processors

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