VMware and Cisco
Improve your ROI, reduce operational costs and complexity and increase your infrastructure agility with Cisco and VMware’s partnership. Increase Business Agility by implementing a flexible data center, Enhance Efficiency by virtualizing network and IT resources, and improve resilience by ensuring data availability. Cisco is a VMware Global Alliance Partner, Community Source Partner, and investment/collaboration partner. Cisco is also a vCloud technology partner.
VMware vSphere 4 and Cisco Nexus 1000V
VMware vSphere includes the full range of vSphere features for transforming datacenters into dramatically simplified cloud computing environments for providing the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services. Combining VMware’s industry leading virtualization technology and experience, and Cisco's leadership in networking, VMware vSphere delivers uncompromising control, with greater efficiency, while preserving customer choice across the network.
An optional product available for vSphere is the Cisco Nexus 1000V. The Cisco Nexus 1000V is the result of a multi year Cisco and VMware collaboration leveraging the vNetwork 3rd Party Virtual Switch API of VMware vNetwork Distributed (vDS) and the industry leading switching technology of Cisco’s Nexus family of switches - making the Cisco Nexus 1000V the first 3rd party vDS . Featuring Cisco’s Data Center operating system, NX-OS, the Cisco Nexus 1000V extends the virtual networking features set to a level consistent with physical Cisco switches & brings advanced data center networking, security and operational capabilities to a VMware Infrastructure environment.
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