Intel I5, I7 Virtualization enables flexible computing models, Usage models

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Virtualization enables flexible computing models

Virtualization partitions a PC so that it can run separate operating systems and software in each partition. This allows one PC to act as many, and takes advantage of the multi-core processing power available in PCs with a new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor. Virtualized applications, streamed OSs, and virtual user environments are especially useful in data centers, where users share PCs, and where IT must support different builds based on user IDs (see Figures 5 and 6).

To enable virtualization for alternate computing models, the all new 2010 Intel Core vPro processor family includes Intel® Virtualization Technology9 (Intel® VT). Intel VT is the technology of choice for hardware-based virtualization. With Intel VT, IT administrators can centralize image management and data security. IT can now give users the client-side performance they need for multi-threaded applications, video, OS streaming, and other compute-intensive software, while still achieving robust security.

Usage models

Virtualization can be used to support next-generation, emerging, and traditional usage models for OSs and applications:

•Delivery of managed applications on-demand

•Delivery of managed desktop images

•Isolation of execution environments

•Traditional, multi-OS usage model

Hardware-assisted virtualization for multiple OSs

	User environment OS #1				User environment OS #2
	App		App	App		App	App	App
		Windows XP*					Linux*
			Drivers				Drivers
Virtual machine monitor (VMM)
PC hardware with Intel VT
						Hardware network stack

Figure 5. Hardware-assisted virtualization. Virtualization provides IT with isolated, secure spaces in which to abstract or stream OSs and applications Both next-generation and traditional virtualization is supported on laptop and desktop PCs with a new Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor.

Virtualization: Streaming

Streaming refers to sending software (an OS or applications) over the network for execution on the PC (see Figure 7 on the next page). During streaming, the software is sequenced, then divided into blocks and prioritized, and then placed in specific order for streaming. This allows the software to launch and begin operations on the PC even before all the code is streamed, so that users still have the responsiveness and performance of local execution. For IT, the advantage is that the OS and/or applications can be managed centrally, and standardized policies can be set to govern data storage. Since streamed software executes on the client, IT does not have to absorb the large datacenter build-out required by server-side compute models. Also, users enjoy the more responsive application experience of local software execution.

PCs with a new Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor provide flexible foundation for alternative computing models

		PCs					IT
	Virtualized				Master OS	Master applications
	application				with all updates	with all updates
					and patches	and patches
Application	Virtualization		Virtual user
	layer		environment
Local OS	Local OS		Virtualization	OS streaming or
			layer	remote OS boot

Traditional PC	Application streaming	Client-side virtual	OS image streaming	Streaming server	Traditional
	and virtualization	“containers”			management console

Alternative client compute models

Figure 6. The all new 2010 Intel® Core™ vPro™ processor family enables alternate computing models that support different user needs. By centralizing OSs and applications, IT can minimize the burden of maintaining multiple builds, reimaging, and upgrading systems, and improve security at the same time.

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