Windows 10: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Readies for Widespread Deployment

Brink · Oct 30, 2018

App Direct mode and Memory mode help developers fully harness the value of persistent memory.

Intel's beta program for Intel Optane DC persistent memory allows original equipment manufacturers and cloud service providers to offer their customers early access to the revolutionary memory technology.

Leading original equipment manufacturers and cloud service providers have announced beta services and systems for early customer trials and deployments.

What’s New: Intel today launched its beta program for Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory. This program allows leading original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and cloud service providers (CSPs) to offer their customers early access to Intel’s revolutionary memory technology and paves the way for general availability in the first half of 2019. As part of today’s news, the world’s leading OEMs and CSPs have announced beta services and systems for early customer trials and deployments.
“Intel Optane DC persistent memory is a groundbreaking technology that helps address real problems our customers face. In the data-centric era, businesses need to move data faster, store more of it and process everything. Delivered with next-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, this technology will transform critical data workloads, from cloud, databases and high-performance computing to in-memory analytics and content delivery networks.”
–Lisa Spelman, Intel vice president and general manager, Intel Xeon Products and Data Center Marketing
How It’s Different: As a part of today’s news, Intel announced unique capabilities delivered by Intel Optane DC persistent memory through two special operating modes – App Direct mode and Memory mode. Applications that have been specifically tuned can take advantage of App Direct mode to receive the full value of the product’s native persistence and larger capacity. In Memory mode, applications running in a supported operating system or virtual environment can use the product as volatile memory, taking advantage of the additional system capacity made possible from module sizes up to 512 GB without needing to rewrite software.

Why It’s Important: Intel Optane DC persistent memory represents a new class of memory architected to extract further value from data. Unlike traditional DRAM, Intel Optane DC persistent memory will offer the unprecedented combination of high-capacity, affordability and persistence. Systems and services deploying this new memory technology will deliver new advancements for a wide range of data center use cases, including improved analytics, database and in-memory database, artificial intelligence, high-capacity virtual machines and containers, and content delivery networks. The technology fundamentally changes data center resiliency, taking in-memory database restart times from days or hours down to minutes or seconds, and delivering an affordable memory footprint to scale system memory capacity to unprecedented levels.

Who Is Adopting It: OEMs and CSPs who have announced beta services and systems for early customer trials and deployments include Alibaba*, Cisco*, Dell EMC*, Fujitsu*, Google Cloud*, Hewlett Packard Enterprise*, Huawei*, Lenovo*, Oracle* and Tencent*. Intel is also working with leading independent software vendors (ISVs) to ensure applications and operating environments take full advantage of the technology. These ISVs include Aerospike*, Altibase*, Apache Spark*, AsiaInfo*, Cassandra*, DataBricks*, Gigaspaces*, IBM*, Microsoft*, Red Hat*, RedisLabs*, RocksDB*, SAS*, SAP*, Sunjesoft*, SUSE*, Ubuntu*, Virtuozzo* and VMWare*.
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Source: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory Readies for Widespread Deployment | Intel Newsroom

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fjk61011 · Oct 30, 2018

Intel Optane Memory

I'm waiting for an Intel Optane Memory Module to arrive.

In the meantime I'm following up

3 Installation Media Preperation (Recommended Optional Step) in

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/su...stallation.pdf

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/su...stallation.pdf

I get as far as Mount the Windows* Recovery Image:

dism/mountimage/imagefile:c:\Win10USB\windows\windows\system32\recovery\w inre.wim /Index:1 /mountdir:winre

and get

mountimage/imagefile is unknown.

Any ideas to get this working.

Brink · Oct 30, 2018

Intel Optane memory module update

[table][tr]Intel ID: INTEL-SA-00114 [/tr] [tr][td]Product family:[/td] [td]Intel® Optane™[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Impact of vulnerability:[/td] [td]Information Disclosure[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Severity rating:[/td] [td]Moderate[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Original release:[/td] [td]07/10/2018[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Last revised:[/td] [td]07/10/2018[/td] [/tr] [/table]

Summary:
Information disclosure vulnerability in storage media in systems with Intel® Optane™ memory module with Whole Disk Encryption may allow an attacker to recover data via physical access.

Description:
Intel identified an issue where some systems configured with Whole Disk Encryption and an Intel® Optane™ memory module, may be at risk of data remaining unencrypted and potentially accessible under specific conditions.

Microsoft* BitLocker is required as the software-based Whole Disk Encryption solution on Intel® Optane™ memory enabled volumes.

Other software-based Whole Disk Encryption solutions are not supported.

Microsoft* BitLocker should be enabled before configuring the Intel® Optane™ memory module. Data migration to the Intel® Optane™ memory module takes place using the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) software.

Due to how Intel® RST software migrates data during the Intel® Optane™ memory enabling process, there is a small region on the non-Intel® Optane™ memory module that will be kept hidden from the host operating system. If Microsoft* BitLocker enablement occurs after configuring the Intel® Optane™ memory media device, this small region will not benefit from the Whole Disk Encryption and as a result, end-user data in the small region could possibly be at risk.

Affected products:
The issue potentially affects systems with Intel® Optane™ memory module and Microsoft* BitLocker enabled, based on:
• 7th Gen Intel® Core™ Desktop Processors
• 8th Gen Intel® Core™ Desktop Processors
• 8th Gen Intel® Core™ Mobile Processors
• Intel® Core™ X-Series Processors
• Intel® Xeon® E Processors
Affected configurations:
Intel® Optane™ Memory + Whole Disk Encryption

[table][tr][td]Configuration[/td] [td]Potentially affected by CVE-2018-3619[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Intel® Optane™ Memory[/td] [td]SW based Whole Disk Encryption[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Y[/td] [td]Y[/td] [td]Y[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]Y[/td] [td]N[/td] [td]N[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]N[/td] [td]Y[/td] [td]N[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]N[/td] [td]N[/td] [td]N[/td] [/tr] [/table]

[table][tr][td]CVE ID[/td] [td]CVE Title[/td] [td]CVSSv3 severity[/td] [td]CVSSv3 Vectors[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]CVE-2018-3619[/td] [td]Information disclosure vulnerability in storage media in systems with Intel® Optane™ memory module with Whole Disk Encryption may allow an attacker to recover data via physical access[/td] [td]5.3 (Moderate)[/td] [td]CVSS:3.0/AV/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N[/td] [/tr] [/table]

Recommendations:
1. Intel requires users who want Whole Disk Encryption with Intel® Optane™ memory to use Microsoft* BitLocker. The use of other software Whole Disk Encryption solutions is not supported.
2. Enable Microsoft* BitLocker before configuring the Intel® Optane™ memory device.
3. Intel requires following these steps to ensure the Intel® Optane™ memory with Microsoft* BitLocker is configured properly:

Confirm Microsoft* BitLocker is ON. Check the Microsoft website for instructions: https://social.technet.microsoft.com...s-enabled.aspx

Follow these steps to ensure your system is properly configured:

1. Launch Intel® RST User Interface(UI)/Intel® Optane™ Memory UI
2. Disable Intel® Optane™ memory
3. Enable Intel® Optane™ memory again
§ Check the following link for detailed instructions to disable and enable Intel® Optane™ memory: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/su...stallation.pdf
§ Refer to section 2.1.4 for disabling Intel® Optane™ and section 2.1.3 for enabling Intel® Optane™ using Intel® Optane™ Memory UI
§ Refer to section 2.2.2 for disabling Intel® Optane™ and section 2.2.1 for enabling Intel® Optane™ using Intel® Optane™ Memory UI

Acknowledgements:
CVE-2018-3619 was discovered by Intel.

Revision History

[table][tr]Revision Date Description [/tr] [tr][td]1.0[/td] [td]07/10/2018[/td] [td]Initial Release[/td] [/tr] [/table]

CVE Name: CVE-2018-3619
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Source: INTEL-SA-00114

radiowaves · Oct 30, 2018

Intel Optane Memory

Hi,

Just read the preparation steps Intel recommends for installing the Optane module.
They sure make it very complicated. Especially considering all compatible machines are bound to support UEFI and GPT natively.
Therefore I'd recommend skipping the creation of that recovery stuff and simply mount your Win 10 ISO and copy its contents to an empty USB stick.
Then copy the Optane drivers to it in a dedicated folder.

Of course, before you begin always take an image of your system using MR Free or similar.

BTW: The correct command sysntax is shown in Intel's pdf's command prompt's screenshot. Should you want to persue that route.

Cheers, *Wink
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Are there any issues creating and restoring Macrium Reflect systems images on a system with Intel Optane memory? My understanding is that Intel Optane memory remembers how you use the system. I was wondering how Macrium Reflect would restore that information.

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