Red Hat Linux system supports AMD quad-core haolong CPU Virtualization

 

RedHat has recently reached a strategic partnership with Hewlett-Packard and AMD, announcing that it will install the Redhat Enterprise Linux operating system on the HP Server to continue strengthening the leading virtualization performance of the server. By connecting to the latest high-performance device driver of HP's ProLiant DL585 G5 server with a quad-core AMD haolong processor, you can experience the superior performance of this server.

This comprehensive solution provides users with unique features that other competing products do not have, such:

Supports AMD's Rapid Virtualization Indexing Technology (Rapid Indexing );

Supports virtual machines with more than four processors

Comprehensive virtualization performance close to non-virtualized environment performance

RedHat works with Hewlett-Packard and AMD to make full use of hardware resources to increase the operational flexibility of all workloads, including high-end application software and databases.

In addition to high scalability and energy efficiency, AMD's quad-core haolong processor can also support advanced Virtualization features called Rapid Virtualization Indexing, this technology can improve the effectiveness of Memory Management in the Virtual Machine Client operating system. Hewlett-Packard is the first hardware vendor to use a processor equipped with the technology. AMD's Rapid Virtualization Indexing technology leverages "on-die" Silicon Chip resources to greatly reduce the cycle and performance loss of management programs.

"RedHat and AMD have been working closely in the open-source community to ensure full support for AMD's first quad-core haolong processor's fast virtualization indexing technology, and will be applied to leading hardware devices, "said Earl Stahl, vice president of software development at AMD. "We can ensure that users will soon experience the benefits brought by this latest virtualization technology. We are very pleased to see the outstanding performance of Redhat's Enterprise Linux operating system. Today, the fastest-running and fastest-upgrading virtualization platform finally met AMD, RedHat, and HP users on the market ".

Red Hat's latest virtualization device drivers are combined with these features to deliver even better performance in terms of performance gains. Compared with competitors, the operating system of RedHat can migrate to a virtualized environment more quickly and effectively. The online transaction process (processing) test is based on the transaction volume per second, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system shows that a 16-CPU fully virtualized client system that uses the latest Fast virtualization indexing technology and some virtualization drivers can improve the performance by 21 times, it has reached 77% of the performance of online transaction flow workloads of the most difficult databases in the industrial field in non-virtualized environments.

"Users have gradually accepted virtualization, but they do not yet have a clear understanding of the benefits virtualization applications can provide for the enterprise's overall infrastructure," said Scott Crenshaw, vice president of platform business at RedHat. "You still have no idea about the scalability and performance of virtualization-critical enterprise application software. Applying the Redhat Enterprise Linux operating system on the HP ProLiant server with a built-in quad-core AMD haolong processor can benefit from virtualization without suffering from the performance loss of traditional solutions ".

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system supports and optimizes large Symmetric Multi-processing systems in virtual machines and client operating environments. The performance test results show that the excellent scalability of the Enterprise Linux operating system matches the 16-core capacity of the latest HP Server. Red Hat users can dynamically configure each client, add or remove a central processor core, and allow the client to use all the available resources of these large Symmetric Multi-processing systems.

"The HP ProLiant DL585 server is the ideal virtualization platform. Using HP Insight on this server can reduce the spread of servers and shorten the time required to complete the workload of conventional data centers, energy consumption is also relatively low, "said Scott Farrand, vice president of industrial standardization servers at Hewlett-Packard. "At present, the open cooperation between Hp and RedHat is to improve the performance and scalability of the HP Server of the DL585 model ".