Platform Management Futures (AMD)

1. Platform Management Futures (AMD) Valerie K. KaneSoftware Program Manager Dave TobiasManagerSystems Manageability Initiatives Software Strategy & AlliancesAdvanced Micro Devices

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

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

4. Desktop Manageability CostsSource: Gartner Research, August 2004 Administration, operations and end-user IT costs outweigh initial HW/SW acquisition costs

5. Gartner’s 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

6. A new breed of manageability solutions is required! 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!

7. 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)

8. 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

9. 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

10. Virtualization Challenges

11. 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?

12. Convergence Of SVM Security Security Configuration Management Management Session Security Tamper-ProofMalware Protection Virtual Management Partition Management Virtualization Provisioning and Image ManagementVirtual low cost service processor

13. Integrated SVM Platform Mgmt. Client Managed Platform • Management Partition • Autonomic Recovery (Policy based) • Virtual Console & Media Redirect • VM Management • Tamper Proof Platform Protection • Filter & Quarantine Operations • Inventory Management Agents and Apps Agents and Apps OS OS VM n VM 1 Hypervisor / Virtualization Firmware Hardware Platform Security, Virtualization and Manageability come together…

14. Interoperability is often a key concern for IT organizations 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

15. Open standards facilitate interoperability 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

16. AMD’s 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. CPU Overhead Application Application Guest OS Guest OS Virtual Machine Virtual Machine Hypervisor Host OS Virtualization Extensions AMD And Virtualization Removing the Pain Points of x86-based Virtualization Memory Handling Security and Reliability Virtualizing I/O Devices

21. 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

22. 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

23. Raritan-Peppercon Naim MalikRaritan-Peppercon

24. Features Industry standard daughter card based on Raritan‘s 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 Raritan‘s 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 ISV’s. The result is a cost effective management solution that serves as the base technology of a management infrastructure

25. 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 ISV’s to easily provide cross platform interoperability • Cross platform interoperability further strengthens the ecosystem of manageability, virtualization and security

26. OPMA Based Management Out–of–Band–stack In–Band–stack Client Network OS CLP/SMASH WS-Man Service ManagementServices CIM API – Libraries / Provider CLP/SMASH WS-Man Service System- Firmware IPMI DRiver ACPI Driver Services CIM Mgmt- Firmware KVM Virtual Media IPMI ACPI, others ManagementController Management Controller Hardware OPMA Board/Card/Blade Chassis/Backplane

27. Raritan‘s 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

28. Embotics Jay Litkey CEO

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. Platform Management Architecture

33. 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

34. 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

35. Microsoft Barry Shilmover Management Practices Program ManagerMicrosoft Corporation

36. Platform Management

37. Q & A