Arizona Public Service (APS) is continually looking for new technologies that can contribute to the bottom line and to energy sustainability. The company’s IT group is no exception and is working to reduce power use and costs both in the data center and at the desktop. To reduce power usage, the IT team decided to acquire new desktops and laptops with energy-saving Intel® processor technology as part of the company’s hardware refresh program. In the data center, the APS IT team decided to save energy by consolidating its servers onto fewer, more powerful machines. Read about their ROI and the other ways APS IT measures success. (more…)
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Arizona Public Service: Powerful Savings at the Power Company
Friday, April 24th, 2009Testing Live Migration with Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration
Monday, January 19th, 2009Live migration is an essential technology for an agile, dynamic data center environment based on server virtualization. Previously it has not been possible to perform successful live migration between servers based on different generations of processors, each with different instruction sets. In this proof-of-concept testing of live migration using Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration (Intel® VT FlexMigration) assist and the Enhanced VMotion feature of VMware ESX 3.5U2*, Intel IT was able to successfully complete manual and automated live migrations of virtual machines (VMs) containing complex enterprise applications between two- and four-socket servers based on two generations of Intel® Core™ microarchitecture. Our testing showed that live VM migration using Intel VT FlexMigration assist and VMware Enhanced VMotion is robust enough for hosting Intel IT business applications in a mixed production environment. Read the details in this white paper. (more…)