mai 08

Cisco and VMware Deliver Solution to Simplify Management

SAN JOSE, Calif. and PALO ALTO, Calif., April 21, 2009 – Cisco and VMware today announced that the Cisco Nexus® 1000V virtual switch will be supported in VMware vSphereTM 4, which is being announced today. The combined solution is designed to help customers simplify virtualization and network services management for cloud environments. VMware vSphere 4 is the industry’s first operating system for building the internal cloud, enabling the delivery of efficient, flexible and reliable IT as a service in the data center to help reduce IT costs while increasing IT responsiveness.

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“The combination of VMware vSphere 4 and Cisco’s Nexus 1000V is simply a revolution in computing that is provided by two unbeatable players that have the same vision of the datacenter,” said Julien Mousqueton, Technical Solutions Architect for AGRICA. “The combination of these two solutions allows our IT teams to discover new benefits to virtualized infrastructure because we can now administer a network in a virtual environment the same way as we have done in the physical world—it is simplified and intuitive.”

“VMware vSphere 4 with Cisco Nexus 1000V is lightning-fast—both in terms of network and data storage,” said Olivier Parcollet, Information System Manager for SETAO. “The Cisco Nexus 1000V allows us to gain full control of both the physical and virtual aspects of our infrastructure, driving us toward 100 percent virtualization with stronger security and increased application and resource availability.”

Le communiqué de presse complet

mai 07

Citrix conteste l’approche réseau de Cisco et VMware

A l’occasion d’une discussion informelle, Simon Crossby, le directeur technique de l’offre de virtualisation de Citrix, nous a expliqué que Citrix entend comme VMware empiéter sur le domaine réseau afin de renforcer la sécurité des environnements virtualisés, mais surtout de pouvoir contrôler très précisément les ressources allouées à chaque VM et permettre une gestion très granulaire de la qualité de service. Le switch permettra ainsi aux administrateurs réseau de disposer d’une visibilité totale tant sur les flux inter-VM que sur les flux provenant ou sortant de l’hyperviseur.
Crossby s’est en revanche élevé contre l’idée d’un protocole de marquage de flux comme celui que proposent VMware et Cisco, expliquant que son adoption demandera un remplacement d’une large partie de l’infrastructure de commutation des datacenters pour être efficacement mise en oeuvre.

L’article complet sur LeMagIT

mai 07

EMC World 2009 – Orlando, Floride

EMC World, l’équivalent du VMworld pour le stockage, se déroulera cette année du 18 mai au 21 mai 2009 à Orlando.

J’ai l’honneur d’avoir été invité par le Président Directeur Général EMC France, Chritian Hiller à assiter à cet évenement.

Quelques « Elite sponsort » de l’évènement : Cisco, VMware, Dell, Intel, Oracle : je pense être en terrain connu.

Je ne manquerais pas de vous tenir informé sur le sujet dans les jours qui viennent (après quelques jours de repos bien mérité) …

A lundi …

mai 04

Cisco propose le Nexus 1000v en version d’évaluation

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The long awaited virtual switch for VMware, the Cisco Nexus 1000V, is finally available for the broad public.
In the past months virtualization.info published details of its architecture, its features and its implementation. Now it’s time to try it with the free 60-days trial that is available here.

Cisco didn’t announce the cost of this virtual switch yet but it will stack on top of the vSphere 4.0 license.
To plug into the new VMware platform, Nexus 1000V in fact needs the vNetwork Distributed Switch feature that it’s only available in the new vSphere Enterprise Plus license.
Some VMware customers are arguing that the current packaging and price may negatively impact the sales of Nexus 1000V, which becomes now much less attractive.

Starting May 21, we’ll see if the customers will really consider the Cisco virtual switch a must-have and will gladly pay the premium price to replace the basic VMware virtual switch they used for so many years now.
As usual in virtualization, it really depends on who’s your interlocutor inside the corporate. The guys at the security department may have a slightly different opinion on this product than the virtualization guys.

Télécharger la version d’évaluation de 60 jours ici : http://www.cisco.com/offer/nexusnow/