VMware vSphere

February 8, 2016

DATA CENTER

How Open APIs Enable Multi-Vendor Integration Bringing Greater Customer Value

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Cloud architects and IT operations need a consistent policy model for all applications and for the virtual and physical infrastructure hosting it. A policy model for control, monitoring, and enforcement contributes to bringing today’s siloed operational teams together, with the ability to integrate their workflows using automation tools. Today server virtualization is largely based on […]

June 29, 2015

DATA CENTER

Cisco Continues to Support Application Virtual Switch for Application Centric Infrastructure in vSphere Deployments

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Cisco Application Virtual Switch (AVS), a virtual member of the Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) family has seen increasing interest from customers who want to enforce application centric...

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...

July 28, 2014

DATA CENTER

Power of Open Choice in Hypervisor Virtual Switching

3 min read

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 […]

June 23, 2014

DATA CENTER

High performance Splunk with VMware on top of EMC ScaleIO and Isilon

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I recently did a project involving several moving parts, including Splunk, VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS servers, EMC XtremSF cards, ScaleIO and Isilon. The project goal was to verify the functionality and performance of EMC storage together with Splunk. The results of the project can be applied to a basic physical installation of Splunk, and I added VMware virtualization […]

June 19, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Summary: High performance Splunk with Vmware on top of EMC ScaleIO and Isilon

1 min read

I recently did a project involving several moving parts, including Splunk, VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS servers, EMC XtremSF cards, ScaleIO and Isilon. The project goal was to verify the functionality and performance of EMC storage together with Splunk. The results of the project can be applied to a basic physical installation of Splunk, and I added VMware virtualization […]