Nexus1000V

April 20, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco Nexus 1000V Now Supports VMware vSphere 6.0

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Following up on my blog post announcing our intent to support VMware vSphere 6.0 environments with Cisco Nexus 1000V, I am...

February 2, 2015

DATA CENTER

Announcing Cisco Nexus 1000V for VMware vSphere 6 Release

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The Cisco Nexus 1000V has been supported in VMware vSphere hypervisor since 4.0 release (August 2009) up to the current vSphere release 5.5 update 2.  We are happy to announce...

October 2, 2014

DATA CENTER

Cisco and OpenStack: Juno Release – Part 1

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The next stable OpenStack release codenamed “Juno” is slated to be released October 16, 2014. From improving live upgrades in Nova to enabling easier migration from Nova Network to Neutron,...

July 28, 2014

DATA CENTER

Power of Open Choice in Hypervisor Virtual Switching

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Customers gain great value from server virtualization in the form of virtual machines (VM) and more recently Linux Containers /Dockers in data centers, clouds and branches.  By some estimates, more than 60 % of the workloads are virtualized although less than 16% of the physical servers (IDC) are virtualized (running a hypervisor).  From a networking perspective, the hypervisor […]

November 7, 2013

DATA CENTER

Introducing Cisco Application Virtual Switch – Extending Virtual Networking to Applications

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Cisco has been the leader in virtual networking since the introduction of Nexus 1000V virtual switch more than 5 years ago.  Now it is time to make the virtual network more application aware.  With the introduction of the Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), we are pleased to introduce the Application Virtual Switch (AVS), the virtual network […]

August 21, 2013

DATA CENTER

Cisco vPath Technology Enabling Best-In-Class Cloud Network Services

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vPath, a Cisco innovative technology developed within Cisco Nexus 1000V, has been shipping for more than 2 years, enabling customers to seamlessly create policy-based multi-tenant / multi-container Data Centers across multiple hypervisor environment. Increasingly, customers are implementing network services into their virtualization and cloud networks in order to meet regulatory, security and service levels. To […]

August 16, 2013

DATA CENTER

Celebrating 5 Year Anniversary of Cisco Nexus 1000V Launch

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Today marks an important milestone for one of our most strategic data center products and the foundation of virtual networking portfolio. Five years ago, the Nexus 1000V virtual switch...