He's buff !
Interesting read !

Not really a demo for AMD, but more for VMware. That is pretty much one of the ideas behind VMware, you can migrate from server to server, even with completely different hardware setups, effortlessly and without end-users being affected.

If you have to take a server down for some reason, you just off-load the work to another server, it is great.

Good stuff here.

You got it wrong, as an IT student/operator, and much into vmware. got myself vmware ESX setup at home, know how it works ;)

Okey:
Shanghai to Istanbul: No issues whatso ever, no instruction diffrences (that im aware of at this time) while barcelona is abit diffrent.

But here we go.
Opty 8216 and barcelona, with fixes(no SSE4.) and moving from amd cpu to intel cpu IS NOT POSSIBLE.
Sorry for the caps, but i know this isnt common knowledge.

However, you are into something, a virtual appliance/machine is hardware indipendent, but that doesnt mean "Live migration" is it, and far from.

What hardware indipendent means is :
You can shutdown, and power up on another ( "Amd->intel" "Intel->Amd" and other brands.)
You can also suspend. and power up on another(Is not higly reccomended, since it usually means : BSOD or alike for unix alike operating systems, and of course linux.)

For those who is not aware of vmware ESXI and ESX. test out ESXI free, with not the enterprise live migration(DRS and HA)

How is a ESXI setup ?.

lowest setup demands(for HA and DRS)
3 ESXI boxes.
2 NAS.
1 DNS/Virtual center server.

thats 5 boxes as minimum, but renundance is important, and isnt stronger than weakest link, so this is COMPLETLY enterprise, this isnt something people with 100 users usually go for.
When you get more to 1000, its becomming cost effective.
Nas 1 down, nas 2 is there.
if one ESX fails, you got two, you cannot max them out if you need all servers.

You can set:
1x ESX server fail = kill all in resource pool : Development/test. priority 3 servers(whatever they are)
and all servers who was located on esx 3 which failed, get powered up on the remaining two, within a minute they are 100% operational!


Sounds great doesnt it ?.
if they can do this on linux, wonder what they can do to desktop linux OS!

In case someone wondering.
Doesn't it kill alot of performance, how much performance do you get out of an cpu in vmware vs a clean system.
Costs 400 mb Ram.
Costs 1 memory card/stick/pen/embedded chip(most usual)
Cost 20%.

Saves loads of power/hardware costs. servers idle most of the time!

I hope this crash course intro to vmware ESXI was at any help for any.
Enjoy!

newtekie1Not really a demo for AMD, but more for VMware.

...that relies on AMD's virtualization tech to perform what you just saw.

btarunr...that relies on AMD's virtualization tech to perform what you just saw.

It is very much on cpu level, to make it rock solid.

Opty 82xx and 22xx and 12xx to barcelona and newer was a pain, and in fact, A64 to A64, maybe amd really is compability king now.

Theyve done good with the AM2 AM2+ AM3 platform!

Anyways, great to hear though, compotition is key to evolution!

ImsochoboIt is very much on cpu level, to make it rock solid.

Opty 82xx and 22xx and 12xx to barcelona and newer was a pain, and in fact, A64 to A64, maybe amd really is compability king now.

Theyve done good with the AM2 AM2+ AM3 platform!

Anyways, great to hear though, compotition is key to evolution!

Just to add - I too use VMWare both at work and home. At home I have migrated different virtual OSes from Sempron to A64 to X2 to now Phenom. It just needs to create a new id when you first start the virtual OS and all is done internally. And if you clone the virtual make sure to change the SID or u will have networking issues.

:toast:

Yo! Dudes at AMD 'been eating ALL their pokemons...

ImsochoboIn case someone wondering.
Doesn't it kill alot of performance, how much performance do you get out of an cpu in vmware vs a clean system.
Costs 400 mb Ram.
Costs 1 memory card/stick/pen/embedded chip(most usual)
Cost 20%.

Saves loads of power/hardware costs. servers idle most of the time!

I hope this crash course intro to vmware ESXI was at any help for any.
Enjoy!

i dont want to get too far off topic here, but really virtualization is only useful if you need to run various services on different operating systems. if you are simply a web hosting company you could buy 100 dual xeon machines and run freebsd and never worry about a thing if they are networked properly.

cool from AMD, and about the names so we have AMD Barcelona , shanghai , and now Istanbul , did i expect the 32 core with 20nm AMD cpu called Baghdad