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This article is a follow-up to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 utilizes nested paging on AMD Barcelona Processor to improve performance of virtualized guests.

With new hardware releases, customers are faced with situations in which they want to take advantage of increased speeds but are forced to stay on older hardware because their operating environments are not supported on the newer hardware. Virtualizing their operating environment helps them get past this issue. Virtualization also helps them:

• Consolidate hardware to
  • improve utilization
  • reduce floor space requirements
  • reduce power consumption
• Take advantage of hardware speed up without having to upgrade the software environment
• Reduce downtime for upgrades
• Create development and test environments

RHEL 5 virtualization lets customers virtualize their existing systems and take advantage of the benefits mentioned above.

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