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.
Datasheets
- VMware and Cisco Alliance Brief
- VMware vSphere 4 and Cisco Nexus 1000V Series: Accelerate Data Center Virtualization
- Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3100 Series and its innovative Virtual Blade Switch technology
- Cisco VFrame and VMware Integration (data center virtualization)
White Papers
- VMware vSphere 4 and Nexus 1000V Implementation Guide
- DMZ Virtualization Using VMware vSphere 4 and the Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch
- How Cisco IT Virtualizes Data Center Application Servers
- Cisco VN-Link: Accelerate Server Virtualization
- Cisco and VMware Facilitate Virtualization Strategies
- Data Center Virtualization and Orchestration: Business and Financial Justification
- VMware Infrastructure 3 in a Cisco Network Environment
- Network Implications of Server Virtualization in the Data Center
- Networking Concepts
Compatibility Guides
Guides listing the standard operating systems and server platforms VMware tests against.
- VMware Infrastructure 3 Compatibility Guides
- VMware ESX Server 2.x Compatibility Guides
- VMware ESX Server: SAN Compatibility Guide
- VMware ESX server: Systems Compatibility Guide
- Cisco Secure ACS 4.1 support
Press Releases
- Cisco and VMware Accelerate Innovation in Data Center Virtualization
- Cisco Takes a Major Step in "Virtualizing" the Data Center Network
- VMware and Cisco announce investment
- VMware with AMD, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, Red Hat and Others to Forge Open Virtualization Standards
Additional Resources
- Podcast: Datacenter Virtualization with Cisco and VMware
- Podcast: Virtualizing the Network, with Steve Herrod
- Demo: Deliver Virtual Machine-Aware Network Services
- Video: VMware and Cisco Accelerate Virtual Machine Deployments
- Presentation: The Network as a Platform...Embracing the Virtual World (Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers Addresses VMworld 2007)
- Blogs: VMware Networking blog
- Presentation: Cisco Data Center Virtual seminar series
- Design Guide: VMware Infrastructure 3 in a Cisco Network Environment
VMware on Cisco.com
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