VMware and Cisco
Cisco is a VMware Global Alliance Partner, Community Source Partner, and investment/collaboration partner. Cisco is also a vCloud technology partner. Cisco’s key messages are Increase Business Agility by implementing a flexible data center, Enhance Efficiency by virtualizing network and IT resources, and Improve Resilience by ensuring data availability.
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
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 IPICS Operating System Release 1.0(3) Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Cisco Secure ACS 4.1 support
Datasheets
- VMware and Cisco Alliance Brief
- Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3100 Series and its innovative Virtual Blade Switch technology
- Cisco VFrame and VMware Integration (data center virtualization)
White Papers
- 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
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
- Design Guide: Server Networking with the Cisco Nexus 1000V
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