Today’s Intel Xeon processors are designed with built-in hardware assists for virtualization. VMware has optimized their virtualization software to take advantage of Intel VT features and capabilities in the silicon. The resulting increases in efficiency allow higher VM density (more consolidation) greater application performance, and workload flexibility within the data center. This provides an infrastructure that delivers tangible benefits for both your business and IT organization, while also helping you reduce energy costs and consumption.
Through VMware virtualization solutions, IT infrastructure becomes dynamic and responsive to fluctuating capacity requirements, as well as sensitive to energy use. VMware® Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) monitors the utilization of a pool of servers and uses VMware® VMotion to dynamically rebalance virtual machines across an entire resource pool of physical servers on an ongoing basis. VMware Enhanced VMotion coupled with Intel VT FlexMigration allows live migration across different generations of Intel Xeon processor-based servers, giving IT managers the freedom to move workloads whenever necessary, helping ensure business continuity during unforeseen spikes in data center resources.
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