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AMD Virtualization (AMD-V™) technology is a set of hardware extensions to the x86 system architecture that allows you to better utilize your resources, which makes your servers, workstations, and datacenters more effective. AMD-V ™ simplifies existing software only virtualization solutions by reducing and sometimes eliminating the burden of trapping and emulating instructions executed within a guest operating system
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AMD Opteron™ processors with AMD Virtualization technology
AMD-V™ technology leverages the AMD Opteron™ processor with Direct Connect Architecture to provide fast and efficient memory handling, which is a must-have for memory intensive applications like virtualization. The combined effects of Direct Connect Architecture, an integrated memory controller, HyperTransport™ technology, and AMD-V™ technology with Rapid Virtualization Indexing help to streamline your datacenter and maximize your IT investment - reduce power consumption, support more users, more transactions, and more resource-intensive applications and achieve higher levels of efficiency and utilization in your virtual environment.
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You need a server platform that can provide a robust and scalable environment for virtualization while maintaining power efficiency. No other processor vendor can match AMD’s capabilities for x86 virtualization: |
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- Unmatched Memory Bandwidth and Scalability - Direct Connect Architecture allows more virtual machines (VMs) to be hosted per server and more users and transactions per virtual machines
- Rapid Virtualization Indexing (RVI) - Helps accelerate the performance of many virtualized applications by enabling hardware-based VM memory management.
- Enhanced Power Management - Manages power consumption so that you don’t waste energy during low utilization cycles
- Tagged TLB - Hardware features that facilitate efficient switching between VMs for better application responsiveness
- AMD-V™ Extended Migration - Hardware feature that helps virtualization software enable live migration of virtual machines between all available AMD Opteron™ processor generations. Read the Whitepaper:Live Migration with AMD-V™ Extended Migration Technology
- Create one or more virtualization pools across all your AMD Opteron processor based servers:
AMD Opteron™ Processor Family |
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Full Vmotion support between all
AMD Opteron™ Processors |
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200 & 800 Series |
1200, 2200, 8200 Series |
1300, 2300, 8300 Series |
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AMD-V™ white papers:
Virtualizing Server Workloads (PDF, 145 KB)
Putting Server Virtualization to Work (PDF, 148 KB)
AMD-V™ Nested Paging (PDF, 270 KB)
Live Migration with AMD-V™ Extended Migration Technology (PDF, 395 KB)
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