RSSNo Virtual Bridge From Xeon to AMD, Intel Says
VMware customers are getting more freedom to move VMs from one machine to another, but shouldn't expect to be able to shift easily from Intel to AMD-based servers any time soon.
It was one of several ways Fisher said Intel is working with silicon to usher in a "second wave" of virtualization. The first wave was using the technology for server consolidation and building virtual environments for software testing, and the second is to use it for load balancing, high availability and disaster recovery.
Citing IDC figures, he said that in 2007 about 12 percent of all servers in production were using virtualization, up from 8 percent in 2006 and 4 percent the year before. Virtualized servers run at 52 percent capacity on average, he said, compared to 10 percent to 15 percent for non-virtualized systems.
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