TA2823

Alleviating Constraints with Resource Pools and Live Migration Using Enhanced VMotion

Until recently, Live Migration using VMotion has not been possible between different generations of processors, resulting in islands of resource pools in the data centers. Intel's VT FlexMigration Assist and VMware's Enhanced VMotion capabilities help reduce the number of resource pools significantly, and help IT managers accelerate the adoption of new usage models like load balancing and business continuity, and also improve application/service uptimes. This session demonstrates the Enhanced VMotion and Intel VT FlexMigration capabilities with multi-generation Intel Xeon processor resource clusters. Additionally, it also provides a step-by-step guide to enabling the resource clusters in VMware ESX3.5U2 for Enhanced VMotion.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Alan Bumgarner( IntelCorporation ), Jim Blakley( Intel Corporation ), Raghu Yeluri( Intel Corporation )

Alan is an 11 year veteran of Intel Corporation with experience in IT Datacenter and Application Management, Microprocessor-Chipset-and I/O Device Product Planning, Marketing and Application Engineering. He received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Phoenix in Business Information Systems. Alan is currently focused on advanced usage model virtualization with regard to technology path-finding and implementation.

Jim Blakley is Director of Data Center Virtualization within the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel. He is responsible for understanding large enterprise and mega data center requirements and aligning Intel virtualization, security, management, power and networking products and strategies with those needs. Mr. Blakley has over 25 years experience in the development, product management and sales of communications and computer systems, networks and services. Since joining Intel in 2000, he's held a variety of planning, strategic marketing and product management roles in servers and communications. Mr. Blakley holds 4 patents for telecommunications systems and services and is the author of numerous publications.

Raghu Yeluri is a lead architect in Intel's Digital Enterprise Group. He has worked in various engineering and architecture positions in Information Technology and Manufacturing technologies during the last ten or more years at Intel. He holds an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana and a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering. His current responsibilities include understanding current and emerging usages with virtualization, software and hardware architectures for the Data Center Virtualization.