AMD Highlights Hardware Feature Key to Managing Virtualized IT Infrastructures.-- "AMD-V[TM] Extended Migration," Embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. in Multiple Generations of AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Opteron[TM] Processors, Enables Customers to Migrate Live Virtual Sessions among Servers without Interruption or Downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. -- SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- In a new white paper made available this week and at an industry address at KVM (K Virtual Machine) A version of the Java Virtual Machine for small devices with limited memory. See J2ME. See also KVM switch. KVM - Keyboard Video Mouse Forum 2007, AMD (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AMD) today disclosed details about "AMD-V[TM] Extended Migration," a feature dating back to the First-Generation AMD Opteron[TM] processor that enables virtual machines to migrate between different versions of AMD processors. AMD has worked with VMware, the industry-leading virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. software provider, to refine this feature in order to enable a key functionality designed to help IT managers fully leverage the benefits of virtualized IT infrastructures. In addition, to further contribute to the industry discussion around how to implement and manage virtualization capabilities, AMD will be showcasing AMD-V Extended Migration using VMware Infrastructure at VMworld in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , September 11-13, 2007. AMD-V Extended Migration provides the necessary support for virtualization software to mask the differences between CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. generations, facilitating the safe live migration of virtual machines between servers running different generations of AMD processors. This includes existing single-core and dual-core processors and all future AMD processor revisions, including the upcoming "Barcelona" Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, the first native x86 quad-core microprocessor. "Customers running multiple generations of AMD servers will benefit from AMD-V Extended Migration because they can take advantage of previous hardware investments while migrating virtual machines between different AMD processor versions, including future versions, without downtime or limitation," said Randy Allen James Randall (Randy) Allen (born January 26, 1965 in Milton, Florida) is an American former professional basketball player. A 6'8" forward from Florida State University, Allen was never drafted by an NBA team but did manage to play two years in the NBA form 1988 to 1990 for the , corporate vice president and general manager, Server and Workstation Division, AMD. "AMD-V Extended Migration was developed and implemented to help ensure AMD is supporting our ecosystem partners and customers. AMD's commitment to furthering the evolution of virtualization technologies See VT. See also virtualization. is evident in our upcoming Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, which we believe will help accelerate the adoption of virtualized infrastructures." AMD-V Extended Migration helps to protect a user's investment by providing flexible migration policies, which in turn broaden the benefits of a virtualized datacenter. For several generations, AMD processors have included specialized model-specific registers that supply information about the underlying CPU, the instructions it is running, and its configuration. By allowing the virtual machine to use only those features common across a pool of AMD Opteron processor-based servers of varying generations, AMD-V Extended Migration enables compatible virtualization software to more effectively leverage those servers. Novell, Qumranet, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Virtual Iron, VMware and XenSource are among the leading virtualization software vendors with the capacity to take advantage of AMD-V Extended Migration. Elsie Wahlig, AMD Fellow, is discussing this technology this week as a featured speaker at KVM Forum 2007, the first Kernel-based Virtual Machine Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a Linux kernel virtualization infrastructure. KVM currently supports full virtualization using Intel VT or AMD-V. Limited support for paravirtualization is also available for Linux guests and Windows in the form of a paravirtual network forum, in Tucson, AZ. To foster further industry dialogue about implementing and managing virtualized environments, a new white paper titled "Live Virtual Machine Migration on AMD Processors" is now available for download at http://developers.amd.com. Additionally, to view clips from a recent AMD-hosted panel discussion that brought together leading virtualization software vendors for a discussion that included topics such as how to measure the success of a virtualization implementation, licensing scenarios and how to optimize workloads, please visit www.amd.com/virtualization/panel. About AMD Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is a leading global provider of innovative processing solutions in the computing, graphics and consumer electronics markets. AMD is dedicated to driving open innovation, choice and industry growth by delivering superior customer-centric solutions that empower consumers and businesses worldwide. For more information, visit www.amd.com. 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