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Cisco, NetApp Unveil End-to-End FCoE Solution with VMware for the Dynamic Data Center (Sept. 2010) |
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As part of their ongoing collaboration, Cisco, NetApp and VMware have announced the industry's first certified end-to-end Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution for VMware virtual environments. This combined solution reduces the number of devices and cables needed and to drive data center consolidation, virtualization and automation. Cisco data center switches and NetApp storage FCoE solutions are now validated by VMware to support VMware-based virtualized environments, marking a significant milestone for the progression of the FCoE protocol. As a result, more clients can achieve efficiency in their dynamic data centers and achieve real progress on their journey to cloud computing.
Cisco, NetApp and VMware are currently the only networking, storage and virtualization vendors to combine data center consolidation, virtualization and automation in a jointly certified end-to-end FCoE solution that includes both FCoE initiators (such as Converged Network Adaptors) and FCoE storage targets. VMware-validated Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches and NetApp FAS series unified storage support FCoE protocol in virtual environments running VMware vSphere. The solution has completed the VMware Hardware Certification Program testing criteria for use with VMware software, and is now listed on the VMware Hardware Compatibility Guide, with support offered by all three companies.
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Contact Sirius about Cisco, NetApp and VMware solutions for your data center
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Fibre Channel over Ethernet for Virtual Environments
FCoE savings: Representing the next progression of Fibre Channel networking and storage, FCoE is a key protocol in delivering a unified data center fabric, and can provide significant savings by reducing the number of adapters, cables and network infrastructure devices needed in a dynamic data center.
FCoE offers more efficiency: FCoE also helps organizations achieve greater efficiencies by reducing space, cooling and power, and offers higher-performing utilization of data center networks.
FCoE for virtualized environments: This validation of FCoE in virtual environments further illustrates how lossless 10 Gigabit (Gb) Ethernet has become the foundation for a unified data center infrastructure. By supporting FCoE, network-attached storage (NAS) and iSCSI on a single unified network with lossless 10 Gb Ethernet, this end-to-end solution for virtualized environments helps clients consolidate their data center infrastructure for greater capital and operational expense savings.
Sirius, Cisco, NetApp and VMware collaboration
In January, Cisco, NetApp and VMware announced the expansion of their longstanding collaboration to help businesses evolve virtualized data centers to be more efficient, dynamic and secure. The companies continue to innovate to deliver jointly tested, best-of-breed solutions to the market, and have already released several design architectures and end-to-end solutions for FCoE, long-distance application mobility, and secure multi-tenancy. According to Vinu Thomas, Director of Security, Networking & Voice Solutions at Sirius, “Sirius Computer Solutions has been at the forefront of this collaboration, partnering with the three companies and jointly developing design architectures, client prototypes and solution offerings combining the three vendors in an integrated design. Sirius has also done over 25 campaigns on the secure multi-tenancy architecture, and has shown a proven model for running applications like Unified Communications and Virtual Desktop on this scalable and modular architecture. The ability for this architecture to be modular, scalable, and deployable in phases is very attractive to our clients.”
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Contact your Sirius representative for more information about the end-to-end FCoE solution for the Dynamic Data Center from Cisco, NetApp and VMware. |
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