This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware deliver unprecedented reliability in the face of RAM errors.
Hosting business-critical applications on virtualized servers means that reliability is deeply important. If a hardware failure brings the machine to a halt, all of the services hosted on that machine go doen as well.
Isolating memory errors using the Machine Check Architecture, in theory, means that failures can be contained. In practice, how does it work? According to Principled Technologies it works really well. A June 2011 test report from Principled Technologies shows that forced memory errors on a system using a Intel Xeon E7 and VMware vSphere were caught and isolated to only the VM that suffered the error.
Want to learn more? Check out the test report from Principled Technologies, “Intel and VMware Deliver Reliability: Simulated RAM error isolated to single VM.”
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Intel and VMware Deliver Reliability
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