Hi all!

I read a nice blog this morning! Mike DiPetrillo write about the Live migration from Intel to AMD boxes.
There are some nice information about the future of this function and about the tactics from Microsoft and Citrix.

With all of that said, VMware went to the chip manufacturers a while ago to see if we could get a switch where we can turn their advanced features off. They laughed at us originally. Who can blame them. They put the advanced features in there to differentiate themselves and sell processor upgrades. We're basically telling them not to be competitive. Well, with virtualization showing up everywhere the chip manufacturers have decided to put advanced virtualization capabilities into the chips. It all started with Intel VT-x and AMD SVM. Now both manufacturers are including a switch that will allow us to turn off certain features and make the processors look like they have the same features. Intel and AMD have both added this feature to their recent processor launches. This is really great since now you can buy a new box with a new feature set, add the box to the virtualization cluster, and we'll go ahead and turn off the advanced features that would normally prevent migration. We can set everything to the lowest common denominator.

Read the whole article here.