Overview
When VMware software teams up with the AMD Opteron processor based-systems, the result is imporved efficiency, greater productivity and enhanced scalability--giving you greater return on your virtualization investment.
Press Releases
- AMD Highlights Hardware Feature Key to Managing Virtualized IT Infrastructures.
- AMD Announces Broad Software Ecosystem Support for Industry's First x86 Native Quad-Core Solution.
"VMware has worked closely with AMD to optimize the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor for VMware virtualization products. Features such as Rapid Virtualization Indexing are designed to enable customers using the industry-leading VMware platform to further increase CPU utilization and provide more efficient memory access..." said Brian Byun, vice president of global partners and solutions at VMware. "We are excited about the enhanced virtualization capabilities of AMD's upcoming processors, including AMD Virtualization, and their ability to improve performance on a broader set of workloads." - VMware Virtual Infrastructure to Harness the Full Power of Dual-Core Processors
- VMware with AMD, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, Red Hat and Others to Forge Open Virtualization Standards
- AMD Announces Support For Enterprise Server Virtualization
Compatibility Guides
Guides listing the standard operating systems and server platforms VMware tests against.
VMware on AMD.com
- Live Virtual Machine Migration on AMD Processors
- AMD's Virtualization Solutions
- Virtualization with AMD & VMware
- Flash Demo on Virtualization
- Enhanced utilization of IT resources
- Server Virtualization Powered by AMD Opteron Processors
White Paper
VMware Infrastructure for SAP Enterprise Applications: Use Cases
The collaboration between VMware, AMD, and Dell provides unique value to our SAP customers. VMware, AMD and Dell have received requests from customers to understand how virtualization can play a role within SAP deployments. Collectively they have evaluated what a customer should expect from such a deployment. This document discusses the benefits of running SAP Enterprise Applications and Business Solutions on VMware Infrastructure. The paper covers use cases that range from server containment to disaster recovery, demonstrating tangible cost reduction, operational efficiency and time-saving benefits.
Scaling IBM DB2 9 in a VMware Infrastructure 3 Environment
AMD, IBM, and VMware continue to collaborate on leveraging IBM System x servers, AMD Opteron processors and VMware Infrastructure 3 to offer a solid, robust virtualization platform to small and medium-sized enterprises. Running VMware virtual machines on IBM System x servers based on AMD Opteron processors and using IBM DB2 9 to host Web-based database application workloads can provide dramatic price/performance ratios thanks to the flexibility of virtual platforms, which are designed to enhance server consolidation and disaster recovery.
Industry Virtualization Discussions
AMD recently hosted a 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.
Success Stories
"VMware VDI Solution on IBM, Opteron Blades: Just What the Doctor Ordered for Huntsville Hospital"
"We 're in the process of opening a new emergency room at the hospital. Because of the critical nature of the computing environment, it has to be up and running extremely quickly. With VMware VDI, instead of having to buy 150 PCs and fully configure them, we 're going to roll out 150 thin clients, connect them to their pre-configured hosted virtual desktops, and be on our way."
-Tony Wilburn, Network Specialist, Huntsville Hospital