AMD EPYC™ Processors Bring Advanced Security Features and High-Performance Capabilities to VMware Customers
September 30 2020 - 9:00AM
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today highlighted the latest expansion of the AMD
EPYC™ processor ecosystem for virtualized and hyperconverged
infrastructure (HCI) environments with VMware® adding support for
AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State (SEV-ES) in its
newest vSphere® release, 7.0U1.
With the latest release, VMware vSphere now enables AMD SEV-ES,
which is part of AMD Infinity Guard, a robust set of modern,
hardware enabled features found in all 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors.
In addition to VM memory encryption, SEV-ES also provides
encryption of CPU registers and provides VMware customers with
easy-to-implement and enhanced security for their environments.
“As the modern data center continues to evolve into a
virtualized, hybrid cloud environment, AMD and VMware are working
together to make sure customers have access to systems that provide
high levels of performance on virtualization workloads, while
enabling advanced security features that are simple to implement
for better protection of data,” said Dan McNamara, senior vice
president and general manager, Server Business Unit, AMD. “A
virtualized data center with AMD EPYC processors and VMware enables
customers to modernize the data center and have access to
high-performance and leading-edge security features, across a wide
variety of OEM platforms.”
“In a virtualized environment, it is critical to have protection
of data not only from other virtual machines, but the hypervisor
itself. This is why we chose to make vSphere 7 the first hypervisor
to provide full SEV-ES support from AMD EPYC processors,” said
Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud
Platform Business Unit, VMware. “This additional layer of security
and data encryption is truly impactful for our customers as they
can now encrypt data throughout their environment. But more
importantly, customers don’t have to make changes to their
applications to take full advantage of SEV-ES, making security
implementation simple. AMD has made security an easy choice for our
customers with these features and we’re excited to provide the
security of AMD EPYC to them.”
The Growing AMD EPYC and
VMware EcosystemAMD EPYC™ processors have
become a leading choice to drive innovation of virtualization and
HCI solutions due to their accelerated performance, including 2.3x
better VMmark 3.1.1 performance compared to the competition2, class
leading memory capabilities3, and a full security feature set with
AMD Infinity Guard including SEV-ES and Secure Memory
Encryption.
AMD has also worked closely with its OEM partners to create vSAN
ReadyNodes™ certified for AMD EPYC processors and other AMD EPYC
processor and VMware HCI solutions that offer leading performance,
scalability, and total cost of ownership.
- Dell
Technologies
- Dell EMC
VxRail™ E Series hyperconverged
systems – Featuring 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors,
these systems continue the successful collaboration between AMD,
Dell Technologies and VMware enabling HCI for a wide set of use
cases.
- Dell EMC
vSAN Ready Nodes – Using Dell EMC
PowerEdge servers, customers can get the performance of AMD EPYC
with the flexibility of Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes, hyperconverged
building blocks for VMware vSAN™ environments.
- HPE
- HPE ProLiant DL325 and DL385
Gen10 and Gen10 Plus
servers – Using 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors, these servers
are purpose built for VDI users, business-critical applications,
and mixed workloads with scalable growth. The servers are vSAN
ReadyNode™ certified as well.
- Lenovo Data
Center Group
- Lenovo offers Lenovo ThinkSystem single and
dual socket servers that are VMware vSAN ReadyNode™ certified. This
includes the two socket Lenovo ThinkSystem SR645 and SR665 servers
featuring enhanced performance and I/O connectivity for higher
performance workloads and the single socket Lenovo ThinkSystem
SR635 and SR655 servers to help customers accelerate higher
performance workloads to improve efficiency.
- Supermicro
- Supermicro offers vSAN ReadyNode certified solutions with
dual-socket AMD EPYC processors for customers that want to deploy
the hyper-converged solution, as quickly as possible.
AMD EPYC processors, whether in single socket or dual socket
configurations, provide VMware customers with an industry leading
performance processor for VMware virtualization workloads4. Now
with the enablement of SEV-ES on the latest release of vSphere®,
customers can choose performance and security features when using
AMD EPYC based VMware solutions from OEMs.
This update highlights a continuing collaboration between the
two companies to provide VMware and AMD EPYC customers with a
high-performance and secure virtualization experience for the
modern data center.
You can read more about the latest version of vSphere and its
support of SEV-ES in this blog from VMware and hear more about AMD
EPYC for VMware solutions at VMworld 2020.
Supporting Resources
- Learn more about AMD Secure
Encrypted Virtualization
- Read a blog from AMD about Secure
Encrypted Virtualization for VMware
- Learn more about AMD EPYC processors
for HCI
- Learn more about AMD Infinity
Guard
- Read more about the AMD growth in
HCI and virtualization
- Check out a recent HCI whitepaper
from Insight64 about HCI
- Follow AMD on Twitter
About AMDFor more than 50 years AMD has driven
innovation in high-performance computing, graphics and
visualization technologies ― the building blocks for gaming,
immersive platforms and the datacenter. Hundreds of millions of
consumers, leading Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge
scientific research facilities around the world rely on AMD
technology daily to improve how they live, work and play. AMD
employees around the world are focused on building great products
that push the boundaries of what is possible. For more information
about how AMD is enabling today and inspiring tomorrow, visit the
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) website, blog, Facebook and
Twitter pages.
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United States and other jurisdictions.
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1 4-node, 2x EPYC™ 7742 processor powered cluster with a score
of 24.08@ 28 tiles on the VMmark® 3.1.1 benchmark using vSAN
(https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2020-04-28-DellEMC-PowerEdge-R6525.pdf)
delivers 2.27x more performance and 2.33x higher tile/VM workload
capacity than the VMmark® 3.1.1 vSAN performance of a 4-node, 2x
Intel Xeon Platinum 8268 processor powered cluster with a score of
10.63@12 tiles
(https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2020-06-30-Supermicro-SYS-2029BT-HNR.pdf)
as of 06/08/20. ROM-7372 ROM-7373 EPYC™ 7002 series has 8 memory
channels, supporting 3200 MHz DIMMs yielding 204.8 GB/s of
bandwidth vs. the same class of Intel Scalable Gen 2 processors
with only 6 memory channels and supporting 2933 MHz DIMMs yielding
140.8 GB/s of bandwidth. 204.8 / 140.8 = 1.454545 - 1.0 = .45 or
45% more. AMD EPYC has 45% more bandwidth. Class based on
industry-standard pin-based (LGA) X86 processors. ROM-114 2P 2nd
Gen EPYC™ 7702 powered server scores a world record result of 12.78
Score @ 14 tiles
https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2019-08-07-HPE-ProLiant-DL385Gen10.pdf.
The next highest published score is 9.02 Score @ 9 tiles on a 2-n,
2-socket Xeon® 8280 powered server
https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2019-04-02-Fujitsu-RX2540M5.pdf
as of 11/13/19. ROM-389
Contacts:
Aaron Grabein
AMD Communications
+1 512-602-8950
Aaron.Grabein@amd.com
Laura Graves
AMD Investor Relations
+1 408-749-5467
Laura.Graves@amd.com
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