Amsterdam, 20 september 2011 – Cisco en Microsoft werken samen aan oplossingen voor
datacentervirtualisatie met een hogere stabiliteit en verbeterd operationeel beheer van Windows Server ‘8’ virtuele omgevingen. De Cisco
Nexus 1000V distributed fabric switch en het
Cisco Unified Computing System met
Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) zullen de Windows Server Hyper-V hypervisor ondersteunen. Hiermee krijgen klanten de beschikking over geavanceerde Cisco netwerkfunctionaliteit die gelijk is voor zowel virtuele als fysieke netwerken, terwijl ook bestaande IT-beheerprocessen ondersteund worden. The Cisco Nexus 1000V- en VM-FEX-oplossingen voor Hyper-V komen beschikbaar wanneer Windows Server 8 op de markt komt.
“De schaalbaarheid en dichtheid van Cisco’s Unified Computing System maken het tot een system dat bij uitstek geschikt is voor klanten die de vele nieuwe virtualisatiemogelijkheden van Windows Server ‘8’ en Hyper-V willen gaan gebruiken”, zegt Michel Schaalje technisch directeur van Cisco Nederland. “De Nexus 1000V en FM-FEX in combinatie met Windows Server Hyper-V bieden geavanceerde maar eenvoudig te gebruiken beheerfuncties. Ze effenen de weg naar een end-to-end gevirtualiseerd datacenter en zorgen ervoor dat IT-diensten makkelijker zijn aan te bieden en te beheren. Zo kunnen klanten sneller en eenvoudiger overstappen naar de cloud.”
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Cisco Accelerates Innovation in Data Center Virtualization with Microsoft
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Sept. 20, 2011 – Today Cisco announced it is collaborating with Microsoft to deliver data center virtualization solutions designed to provide improved scalability and operational control of Microsoft Windows Server “8” virtual environments. The Cisco Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch and the Cisco Unified Computing System with Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) capabilities will work with the Windows Server Hyper-V hypervisor to provide customers with advanced Cisco networking features that are constant across both virtual and physical networks while supporting customers’ existing IT management processes.
Key Highlights:
Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch Offers Enhanced Visibility, Control and Operational Flexibility for Hyper-V Environments:
- The Cisco Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch adds the dynamic provisioning and management capabilities of Cisco NX-OS Software to Windows Server Hyper-V to simplify the operations of virtual networking infrastructures as extensions of physical networks. It also provides full VM-level visibility, security controls in a virtualized environment that are consistent with their Cisco physical network.
- Cisco’s policy enforcement, automated provisioning and diagnostics features are available through Cisco Nexus 1000V, and will help IT administrators to rapidly deploy virtual workloads in Windows Server Hyper-V environments and scale to very large data centers.
- By working with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) management tools, the Cisco Nexus 1000V will help network, virtualization and server administrators gain efficiency in collaboratively managing multi-tenant and mobile virtual environments. It also helps them to obtain accurate, real-time data for troubleshooting of virtual environments.
- Through integration with Cisco’s security software (Virtual Security Gateway and Virtual ASA), application optimization software (Virtual Wide Area Application Services) and network monitoring software (Network Analysis Module), the Nexus 1000V provides granular virtual-machine-level security and application acceleration for multi-tenant environments, as well as actionable VM-to-VM activity monitoring and reporting.
Cisco Unified Computing System VM-FEX Offers Operational Simplicity and Performance in Virtualized Environments:
- The Cisco UCS with VM-FEX capabilities, helps IT administrators to provision, configure, manage, monitor, and diagnose virtual machine network traffic from within one unified infrastructure that manages compute, network and virtualization resources.
- VM-FEX also makes use of the Microsoft’s SR-IOV capabilities in Windows Server 8 Hyper-V to provide near “bare metal” virtual machine I/O performance.
- By collapsing the physical and virtual networking layers into one virtual infrastructure, VM-FEX reduces the number of management points that the network administrator has to monitor, and offers the same consistent feature-set for both virtual and physical infrastructures. This also improves traffic engineering, visibility and troubleshooting capability for VM traffic, so IT administrators can architect a holistic virtual and physical network infrastructure.
- Application deployments will be faster with the automation of virtual machine creation through policy-based network configurations that are supported by both companies' virtualization management tools.
Availability
The Cisco Nexus 1000V and VM-FEX solutions for Hyper-V will be available when Windows 8 Server is released to the market.
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