vPro Prerequisites and Trade-offs for the dc7700 Business PC with Intel vPro Technology

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Comparison of AMT vs ASF Capabilities
Network Performance Impact
The installation of a virtualized appliance causes the NIC device to dynamically change device IDs. This
should result in “New hardware found” messages and the installation of different virtual drivers.
Intel NIC Vendor ID, Device ID, and description string:
• Physical - 8086 / 104A “Intel 82566DM Gigabit Network Connection”
• Virtualized - 8086 / 10B7 “Intel Pro/1000 vVE Network Connection”
This causes redirection of user networking I/O to the virtual partition, which can impact network traffic
performance. Third party appliances that inspect network packets will impact this further.
Capabilities AMT ASF
OOB (Out Of Band) Management Yes - From any power state (S0,
S3, S4, S5)
Limited - System must be in S0,
needs to be remotely woken first
Remote Control Yes - SOL, IDE-R, reboot, wake,
shutdown, and more
Limited - Remote reboot and wake
only
Event Alerting Yes - Preset (restrictive) Yes - Policy based (flexible)
Non-Volatile Storage Yes - Third Party Data Store (3PDS) No
Event Logging Yes No
Remote Boot Yes - PXE or IDE-R Yes - PXE
Asset Information Yes - HW and SW No
Remote ME FW Update Yes No
Secure Communication TLS / HTTP Digest Simple Authentication
Connection Protocol HTTP
(Accessible by Web browser)
RMCP
Layer 4 Stack TCP
(Preferred routing protocol)
UDP
(Often blocked by routers)
Broad Enterprise ISV Support Yes No