AMD and Red Hat have demonstrated the live migration of virtual machines between AMD and Intel servers. The term ‘live migration’ refers to moving virtual machines between physical servers without affecting other tasks running on the machines at the time. The companies claim this is the first time this has been demonstrated between processors from the two manufacturers. The functionality would give enterprises “flexibility to buy the hardware that meets [their] business requirements [and to] equip [their] overall datacentre in the most cost-effective way.

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