Virtualization and Consolidation with AMD-V™ and Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 with Hyper-V  

Six-core AMD Opteron™ processors with AMD-V™ technology together with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V helps businesses achieve the benefits of virtualization while reducing the costs associated with implementing virtualized environments. Optimized processors from AMD and virtualization technologies from Microsoft enable businesses to:

  • Decrease hardware costs – Server consolidation allows more workloads to exist on fewer servers, helping to reduce new server demand and making more efficient use of existing hardware resources.
  • Reduce energy and cooling costs – Reducing the total number of physical servers in the data center can also help IT departments reduce their overall power consumption, cooling costs, carbon footprint and space requirements.
  • Increase server utilization - Without virtualization, servers may utilize only 5 to 15 percent of their total potential. With virtualization, server utilization can increase dramatically.
  • Lower Total Cost of Ownership – AMD Opteron processors are designed to deliver the same real world performance for about half the cost of competing solutions  Windows Server® 2008 R2 with Hyper-V™ is a cost-effective server virtualization technology that enables businesses to make full use of existing hardware investments.
  • Streamline manageability and security  –  Hyper-V deployed on AMD Opteron-based servers enables IT staff to rapidly deploy new servers in an integrated physical and virtual IT management framework to help lower operational costs, create more agile infrastructures, and enhance administrative productivity.
  • Extend lifespan of legacy systems – As older-generation hardware becomes more difficult and costly to maintain, Microsoft virtualization technology, combined with AMD’s Opteron processors can be used to re-host legacy environments.

IT all starts with the Processor

The key to delivering highly efficient virtualization solutions begins with choosing the right foundation.  Six core AMD Opteron™ processors are power efficient and cost effective while delivering outstanding real world performance for demanding workloads – especially in virtualized environments.

What’s new in Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper- V?
  • Live Migration, combined with AMD’s extended migration allows for the automatic movement of virtual machines across servers – even spanning processor generations.
  • Support for increased core count, when combined with 6 core AMD Opteron™ processors provides the optimal virtualization platform
    Advanced power management on AMD based servers that span the power band, without sacrificing performance.
  • Native support for AMD’s Rapid Virtualization Indexing -  increasing performance while reducing system overhead.
  • Larger memory footprint – making more efficient use of AMD Direct Connect Architecture.

Core Scenarios and Key Features of Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V provides a dynamic, reliable, and scalable virtualization platform combined with a single set of integrated management tools to manage both physical and virtual resources, enabling you to create an agile and dynamic data center. Learn more about Hyper-V.

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