Overview
VMware and Cisco share a common vision around the benefits of virtualization to the IT organization. Both companies advocate data center virtualization as the preferred strategy to improve return on assets, reduce operational complexity, and increase infrastructure agility.
With VMware infrastructure, customers can quickly scale the number of virtual machines in the data center and the remote office/branch office to meet growing and changing business demands. The rapid adoption of virtual machines places new demands on the networking infrastructure where the underlying LAN, WAN, and storage area network (SAN) architecture must be capable of handling a dense virtual machine environment, providing logical port scalability and maintaining deterministic performance, security, availability, and manageability. Similarly, the data center must be capable of supporting high virtual machine density and virtual machine mobility without compromising segmentation to support business requirements such as information security and regulatory compliance. The VMware and Cisco alliance delivers solutions that allow organizations to implement their server virtualization strategies supported by high availability and stability, enhanced security, better manageability, and compliance to policies.
- The Network as a Platform...Embracing the Virtual World
Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers Addresses VMworld 2007 - VMware and Cisco Alliance Brief
Press Releases
White Papers
- VMware Infrastructure 3 in a Cisco Network Environment
- Data Center Virtualization and Orchestration: Business and Financial Justification
- Network Implications of Server Virtualization in the Data Center
- Networking Concepts