Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 and Next-Generation AMD Opteron™ Processors Increase the Business Value of Virtualization - Whitepaper
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The Next-Generation AMD Opteron processors offer even more virtualization-specific features including energy-efficient DDR2 memory, which offers greater memory bandwidth, improved memory RAS, and cost savings.
Plus, Next-Generation AMD Opteron processors provide a seamless upgrade path to quad-core, using the same socket set, which provides even greater scalability for Virtual Server implementations and protects hardware investments by doubling processing power through a simple chip replacement in existing servers. The seamless hardware upgrade also dovetails with the forward compatibility of VHDs to Windows Server Virtualization, which together provide a seamless upgrade path for virtual machines in the software layer.
To meet the increasing demands of their businesses while simultaneously controlling costs, organizations continually strive for ways to increase efficiencies through streamlined deployment processes, comprehensive consolidation strategies and optimized manageability. Virtualization has emerged as a leading technology enabling exactly those sorts of efficiencies.
Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 running on Windows Server 2003 R2, powered by AMD-V enabled Next Generation AMD Opteron processors provides a compelling virtualization platform for use in click for to download the whitepaper from source
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