Pretty much any major trade show is an exercise in barely controlled chaos and VMworld 2009 is no exception, but all the pieces are falling into place and I am looking forward to a good show next week. Last year, …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on August 28, 2009 at 12:32PM
Since I am apparently feeling a bit nostalgic about VMworld and all the frenetic activity we had about this time last year, getting ready for the announcement of the Cisco Nexus 1000V, I caught up with some of the original …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on August 27, 2009 at 02:38PM
So, its coming up to our one year anniversary of the initial Nexus 1000V announcement and its kind cool to see the progression from the announcement to a 2,000+ user beta to customers starting to deploy the product. First off, …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on August 26, 2009 at 11:27AM
TRIVIA: The first video MTV ever played was The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”, which was sadly all too prescient as evidenced by the subsequent popularity of Milli Vanilli. So, a good friend of mine recently pondered if virtualization …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on August 20, 2009 at 12:11PM
As I have noted before, the Cisco/VMware relationship has some deep roots and our engineers have been having much fun together. Check out this video featuring Mark Bakke, a Technical Leader at Cisco chatting about the N1KV/vSphere solution: …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on June 18, 2009 at 01:54PM
Here is an updated video (in two parts) in which Pierre, one of our TMEs takes you through an in-depth tour of the Cisco Nexus 1000V including config, port profiles and VMotion in action. If these entice you to want …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on June 17, 2009 at 07:56AM
In the next in our series of mini-interviews with Nexus 1000V customer, we have thoughts from Olivier Parcollet, IT Architect at SETAO. Those of you who went to VMworld Europe might have seen Olivier join Ed Bugnion during his keynote. …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on June 01, 2009 at 01:51PM
In recent conversations, a couple of customers have asked me why we made the commitment to invest in developing the Cisco Nexus 1000V. Basically, they were wondering why Cisco and VMware would spend the time and resources to create a …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on May 29, 2009 at 03:12PM
Yes, its true, Cisco virtual networking goodness is available to one and all. To kick things off, we have worked with the fine folks at VMW to put together a 60-day eval program so you can check things out in …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on May 21, 2009 at 07:20AM
With our Cisco Nexus 1000V beta wrapping up, I had a chance to ping a couple of our customers about their experiences testing the Cisco Nexus 1000V/vSphere combo in their environments. The excerpt is from Julien Mousqueton, who is the …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on May 11, 2009 at 09:42AM
We just posted an a new document to the website that provides further detail on virtual networking with the N1KV. A key part of the doc is a comparison of the existing VMW vSwitch vs the new VMW vDS and …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on April 15, 2009 at 12:25PM
Here is a great technical session presented by Guy Brunsdon of VMware. It starts with a good foundation on networking in a virtual machine environment, followed by a discussion of the virtual distributed switch and the Cisco Nexus 1000V. For …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on March 27, 2009 at 03:06PM
What’s not to love about Cannes, France: the food, the wine, the French Riviera, the Nexus 1000V….huh? Yes, this week, Cannes is home to VMworld Europe where all things VMware are under discussion. Folks lucky enough to be at the …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on February 24, 2009 at 11:08PM
So, here we are again with another “Wishful Thinking” post because, yet again, someone would rather hurry to TGI Fridays for their appletini fix, than take the time to do some due diligence. Or, perhaps they can’t come up with …Read more.
Posted by Omar Sultan on February 11, 2009 at 01:06PM
Follow this link to see a demo of the Nexus 1000V and how it interacts with VirtualCenter to set up VN-Link services.
Posted by Omar Sultan on January 04, 2009 at 08:17PM
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