TA2379

Platform Hardware Trends for Virtualization

This session describes VMware's vision of up-and-coming platform technology trends that should guide the design of platform hardware, including networking and storage adapters, as well as chip sets. This session will be of interest to those who are building or buying next generation hardware platforms. Topics will include a review of CPU and I/O virtualization assists including enhanced vmotion, RAS (reliability, scalability, serviceability), and power management.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Richard Brunner( VMware,Inc. ), Uri Elzur( Broadcom )

Richard A. Brunner is the Chief Platform Architect in the
CTO office at VMware, Inc. He is responsible for defining and driving future platform features that can benefit
virtualization. Richard has over 27 years experience in the
computer industry working as an architect for IBM, DEC,
Intel, and AMD. Richard holds MSCE and BSEE degrees. He holds patents in Computer Architecture and has presented extensively at events such as VMworld, Hot Chips, Siggraph, WinHec, Linux Kernel Summit, Linux World, Ottawa Linux Symposium, and Intel Developers Forum.

Uri Elzur is a Sr. Director of Advanced Technology in the Enterprise Networking Group at Broadcom Corporation, an Irvine, California-based global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Uri has joined Broadcom 7 years ago and was instrumental in Broadcom's technological breakthrough of the Converged NIC (C-NIC), providing TCP offload, iSCSI and RDMA. He is a co-author of various IETF RFCs. Prior to joining Broadcom, he has held various design, architecture and application engineering positions at Intel. Uri earned his MSc and BSc from the Technion in Israel.