A Premiere For Red Hat VM, AMD and Intel Servers: Virtual Machine Live Migration Process Across Two Different Vendors
The movement of running virtual machines was demonstrated only in case of live migration between the same vendor systems. AMD and RedHat shown a demonstration of a live migration process for a virtual machine between two different vendors systems: a running virtual machine was moved from a dual socket Intel Xeon DP Quad Core E5420 enabled server to another one containing a 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, using the Red Hat virtualization technology.
Navin Thadani, Senior Director, Virtualization Business at Red Hat stated: “The demonstration of high-performance virtualization and live migration between heterogeneous server platforms helps to illustrate Red Hat’s commitment to open, standards-based infrastructure. We are fully committed to bringing the highly successful open source model to the virtualization domain. With it, Red Hat delivers leading, standards-based virtualization solutions in terms of scalability, security and cost-performance.”
The process of live migration in case of virtual machines across various physical servers is deeply studied due to its multiple advantages for data center management. The running virtual machines through live migration can be moved from one server to another without affecting the end user service continuity. As a consequence, during the maintenance of a web server or server load balancing tasks, the server uptime will be optimal (full) and data lost minimal or zero.
The reliable architecture of AMD Opteron processor in interaction with Red Hat high performance virtualization software determined the success of this live migration experiment. The next YouTube video shows the demonstration of the live migration process.
Related Articles
