VM Memory: What’s VMware and Intel up to?

This is truly interesting, especially because the work that I am doing with couple of folks around memory virtualization is taking not only the SIGnatured aspect of you data center from an ecological perspective but also from the ultimate cost-cutter that you may have never imagined!

Anyways good to see that VMware is looking into the technological part of the VM Memory, we’re already pretty much set to go with the business/SOA part of that technological advancement.

The future of both were detailed during a tag-team tech talk by VMware’s Rich Brunner and Intel’s Sunil Saxena at this week’s Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

Brunner succinctly described the need for RAS as applied to memory: “Right now, just one hardware or software error can cause a platform to reboot. And the hundreds or potentially thousands of virtual machines that you might be running on that platform? They’ve all got to go down and reboot. I think in the vernacular we say, ‘That sucks.’”

The need for RAS is growing because of the increased amounts of memory found in x86 systems. “Because of these scale-up servers,” Brunner said, “we end up having an immense memory footprint – a tremendous amount of memory from an x86 perspective. One terabyte from an x86 perspective is a lot of memory.”

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