Platform Management Futures AMD

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Platform Management Futures (AMD)

• Valerie K. KaneSoftware Program Manager
• Dave TobiasManagerSystems Manageability
  Initiatives
• Software Strategy AlliancesAdvanced Micro
  Devices

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Agenda

• Platform Management TCO Driver
• Industry Trends
• Convergence of Security, Virtualization and
  Management
• Interoperability and Standards
• AMD Ecosystem

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Agenda

• AMD Partners and Innovation
• Peppercon/Raritan Naim Malik
• Embotics Jay Litkey
• Microsoft Barry Shilmover
• Demos
• Client Management
• Server Management

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Desktop Manageability CostsSource Gartner
Research, August 2004
Administration, operations and end-user IT costs
outweigh initial HW/SW acquisition costs
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Gartners Take On Client Management

• Most IT managers do not take full advantage of
  the client management tools provided by PC
  vendors, even though these tools offer a variety
  of potentially useful features. This is mostly
  because few companies have only one PC supplier,
  and deploying tools for PCs from multiple vendors
  is inefficient. So companies would rather look to
  independent software vendors (ISVs), which can
  manage all their PCs.
• - Gartner, Client Management A comparison of
  the leading PC vendors, Dec. 2004

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Industry TrendsDecentralized on-demand computing

• Transition from monolithic, central (mainframe)
  servers to a more decentralized grid of on-demand
  computational resources using
• Economic x86 based PCs, workstations, and servers
• Virtualization
• Clusters and load-balancing
• SLA monitoring and demand based automated
  provisioning
• Platform Autonomics and Informatics
• Fewer personnel resources must operate under
  increasing time and business pressure!

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Industry Trends Platform Autonomics and
Informatics

• Platform Autonomics
• Automated, intelligent, policy based
  decentralization of platform management
• Policy based self-healing, self-configuring,
  self optimizing
• Failure Prediction and reduction of false
  error reporting
• Platform Informatics
• Data aggregation - automatically transforming raw
  data gathered over time into information upon
  which actions and strategies can be based
• Failure Analysis and Reporting
• Decreased Mean-time-to-repair (MTTR)

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Informatics And Autonomics

• Informatics
• Problem detection
• Analysis and reporting
• Recommendations
• Decreased time to repair

Diagnosis to Admin
Line of Trust

• Autonomics
• Policy-Based Management
• Automatic Problem Detection
• Automatic Correction
• Self-healing, self-configuring, self optimizing

No Admin Intervention Needed
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Industry Trends Virtualization can be leveraged
to implement

• Internet malware protection
• Dedicated network partition prevents virus and
  spyware attacks from harming the rest of the PC
• Platform management
• Virtualized BMC/SP decreases cross-platform
  differences while increasing available
  functionality and lowering hardware costs

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Virtualization Challenges
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Security Becomes A Management Issue And
Management A Security Issue

• What permissions for what virtual jobs?
• What users for what sessions on what machine?
• What interaction between virtual sessions on a
  machine?
• How do you manage security for Service Oriented
  Architecture applications that span a dozen
  machines in different geographic locations?
• New point-to-point technologies create new
  security requirements?
• How do you manage security for the management
  session running above the hypervisor that
  prevents a machine take over at the system
  management level?

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Convergence Of SVM
Security
Security Configuration Management Management
Session Security
Tamper-ProofMalware Protection
Virtual Management Partition
Virtualization
Management
Provisioning and Image ManagementVirtual low
cost service processor
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Integrated SVM Platform
Mgmt. Client
Managed Platform
Agents and Apps
Agents and Apps

• Management Partition
• Autonomic Recovery (Policy based)
• Virtual Console Media Redirect
• VM Management
• Tamper Proof Platform Protection
• Filter Quarantine Operations
• Inventory Management

OS
OS
VM 1
VM n
Hypervisor / Virtualization
Firmware
Hardware
Platform Security, Virtualization and
Manageability come together
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Importance Of Interoperability

• A large majority of IT organizations deploy
  heterogeneous technologies and platforms
• Deployed solutions often use a combination of
  standards and proprietary interfaces
• IT organizations often deploy custom developed
  glue layer to integrate all deployed
  technologies

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Importance Of Open Standards

• Standards are fundamental to ensuring
  interoperability across heterogeneous solutions
• Standards enable competition and inherently
  better solutions without sacrificing
  interoperability
• Standards ensure broader solution adoption rates
• Standards bring together the brightest minds in
  the industry to collaborate on the right solution
  definition

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AMDs Involvement In Standards

• AMD is a Leadership Member of the DMTF
• AMD actively participates in various working
  groups of the DMTF, including
• DMWG
• SMWG
• CIM Core Schema
• Common Diagnostics Model Forum
• NIC Sideband WG
• SMBIOS WG
• WS-Management

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WS-Management

• Web Services based management protocol
• Promotes interoperability between management
  tools and managed resources
• Open standard submitted to the DMTF
• Vendors already adding WS-Management support

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OPMA SpecificationOverview

• AMD publicly released the Open Platform
  Management Architecture (OPMA) specification
  02/28/2005
• Common system interface between server platform
  and management subsystem
• AMD collaborated with leading manageability
  subsystem technology partners to develop OPMA
• Enables ISVs/IHVs to build standards based, cross
  platform manageability products suitable for use
  in heterogeneous computing environments
• Open like AMD HyperTransport Technology, and
  requiring a similar specification license
  agreement
• No vendor is excluded and no royalty for adoption
• Specification and license agreement are located
  on AMD.com

http//www.amd.com/opma
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OPMA Technical Highlights

• OPMA is a server management card interface
  specification
• Connector, signals, pin-out, mechanicals, power
• BIOS-firmware interface, motherboard and card
  requirements
• Leverage existing management standards
• IPMI, WS-CIM, WS-Management
• Lightweight with respect to existing system
  designs
• Dramatically smaller form factor than PCI based
  solutions
• Single connector supports wide range of card
  capabilities
• Tool support for MCard development and evaluation

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AMD And Virtualization
Removing the Pain Points of x86-based
Virtualization
Memory Handling
Security and Reliability

• CPU Overhead

Virtualizing I/O Devices
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AMD Platform Security

• PCIe Root Complex
• TCAM
• Trusted Config Space
• HT Unit ID Mapping

Chipset North Bridge
Secure Graphics
AMD Processor
DEV EVP
TPM 1.2 for H/W based Secure OS
Chipset South Bridge
Secure Input
Trusted Platform Module
LPC-bus Changes
Trusted Mobile Keyboard Controller
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The AMD Ecosystem

• AMD
• Recognizes and values the importance of the
  AMD ecosystem
• Works very closely with its partners to define
  the future of the AMD platform
• Promotes the use of open standards as part of the
  AMD platform
• Takes an active role in shaping the future of
  industry trends and standards in conjunction with
  its partners
• All AMD efforts are centered around customer
  requirements

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Raritan-Peppercon

• Naim MalikRaritan-Peppercon

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Raritans Support For OPMA
Raritan adopted OPMA in July 2004. The Raritan
OPMA M3-G4 board offers advanced server
management features and excellent performance.
The widely adopted standard allows for cross
platform interoperability across multiple server
vendors and ISVs. The result is a cost
effective management solution that serves as the
base technology of a management infrastructure

• Features
• Industry standard daughter card based on
  Raritans KIRA 100 ASIC
• Fully featured BMC interfaces
• High performance KVM/IP
• Virtual media
• IPMI 2.0
• SMASH CLP
• WS-Management
• 100 Out-of-band system management

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Why Raritan Endorses OPMA?

• OPMA is a widely adopted open standard for
  embedded system management hardware
• AMD continues to emerge as a leader in authoring
  and supporting open management standards that are
  driving the industry toward simplified,
  intelligent and more efficient IT management
• OPMA is the baseline technology that provides
  common interfaces to ISVs to easily provide
  cross platform interoperability
• Cross platform interoperability further
  strengthens the ecosystem of manageability,
  virtualization and security

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OPMA Based Management
InBandstack
OutofBandstack
Client
Network
OS
CLP/SMASH
WS-Man Service
ManagementServices
CIM
API Libraries / Provider
CLP/SMASH
System- Firmware
WS-Man Service
IPMI DRiver
ACPI Driver
Services
CIM
Mgmt- Firmware
IPMI
KVM
Virtual Media
ACPI, others
ManagementController
Management Controller
Hardware OPMA
Board/Card/Blade
Chassis/Backplane
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Raritans Vision For Management

• Raritan will continue to adopt, develop and
  promote open standards for manageability
• The combination of OPMA and WS-Management enable
  companies like Raritan to more efficiently
  develop and deploy more advanced intelligent
  management devices on a network
• Main advantages to open management standards
• Interoperability across your entire network
• Reduced costs in deploying and managing your
  network
• Freedom to choose solutions from multiple vendors
  to continuously enhance your management
  capabilities while preserving your original
  investments

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Embotics

• Jay Litkey CEO

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A New Approach

• Autonomics and virtualization imply new
  management challenges
• Requires
• Delegation of management
• Interoperability through standards-based
  management
• Manageability must be extensible and reactive to
  service plane configuration changes
• Mobility of management components

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The Management Plane

• Can be physical or virtual
• AMD CPU virtualization support
• Peppercon OPMA card
• Provides
• Separation of Concerns
• Fail-safe isolation and recovery of faults
• Minimize host resource impacts
• Containment of change management risks
• Reduced reliance on the network
• Host-Independent Security
• Independent policy enforcement
• Delineation of admin roles
• Tamper-proof black box and audit trail
• Data persistence

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Embedded Management

• Implemented using software embots
• Embots are
• Autonomic
• Lightweight
• Policy-based
• Social
• Mobile
• Embots run on management plane
• Communicate externally using WS-Man
• Move when service plane moves
• Adapt as service plane changes

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Platform Management

• Architecture

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Client Management
Management Console Windows Server 2003
Client w/ AMD Next Gen AthlonTM Processor Windows
XP SP2 Guest OS
Anti-virus
MOM
S/E
Embotics
MOM Adapter
WS-MAN
User OS
Mgt OS
OS
Embotics Policy Engine
Guest VM
Mgt VM
Hypervisor

• Autonomic management via virtualized partition
• Potential problems monitored and automatically
  corrected

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Server Management
Management Console Windows Server 2003
Server w/ AMD Next Gen OpteronTM
Processor Windows Server 2003 SP1/R2
MOM
Embotics Console
S/E
Embotics
WS-MAN
OS
Mgt OS
OS
Embotics Policy Engine
Peppercon Out-of-band Management Card in server
Sensor Effectors

• Autonomic management via management card for
  servers
• Provides out-of-band monitoring and diagnostics

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Microsoft

• Barry Shilmover Management Practices
  Program ManagerMicrosoft Corporation

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Platform Management
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Q A
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