Improve ROI, reduce operational costs and increase infrastructure agility with Cisco and VMware’s integrated data center solutions to help customers with their journey to 100% virtualization. A partnership focused on creating a flexible and efficient data center by virtualizing network and IT assets. The Cisco-VMware relationship continues to broaden its scope in: global alliance, community source, collaborative investment and vCloud technology.
Bring Control and Flexibility into the Network – Cisco Nexus 1000V and VMware vSphere
Expand the flexibility of a virtual networking feature set to match a physical Cisco switch. The Nexus 1000V brings the control of advanced data center networking, security and operational capabilities to a VMware Infrastructure environment.
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Increase Hardware Utilization and IT Efficiency – Cisco UCS and VMware vSphere
Increase hardware utilization while reducing OpEx costs through virtualization. Integrating Cisco USC with vSphere Distributed Power Management increases IT efficiency while keeping operating costs low.
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Break-thru Data Center Distance and Downtime – Cisco Data Center Interconnect, Cisco SAN I/O Services and VMware VMotion
Streamline remote data center management and control virtual machines like they were part of the same vSphere cluster. Long-distance VMotion creates workload mobility amongst data centers, as well as simplifying consolidation, migration, and maintenance.
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Virtual Machine Portability – Cisco VN-Link technology and VMware vSphere
Maximize the value of vSphere with live migration of virtual machines. This delivers high availability and energy efficiency, while allowing the data center to apply joint migrating security and corporate policies at the machine level. Cisco’s VN-Link technology connects the server, storage and network management arenas allowing full communication between all the systems.
Comprehensive Blade Server I/O Solutions – Cisco Blade Switches and VMware vSphere
Cisco provides blade-specific switches that help drive the cost of virtualizing the data center down, while still promoting end-user satisfaction and IT efficiency. The family of Cisco Blade Switches includes Cisco Catalyst Ethernet blade switches and Cisco MDS Fibre Channel blade switches for blade servers.
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