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Cisco, Microsoft Team Up For Data Center Virtualization Solutions

September 22, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Cisco has announced that is partnering with Microsoft to deliver data center virtualization solutions designed to provide improved scalability and operational control of Microsoft Windows Server “8” virtual environments.

The Cisco Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch and the Cisco Unified Computing System with Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) capabilities will work with the Windows Server Hyper-V hypervisor to provide customers with Cisco networking features that are constant across both virtual and physical networks while supporting customers’ existing IT management processes.

The Cisco Nexus 1000V distributed virtual switch adds the dynamic provisioning and management capabilities of Cisco NX-OS Software to Windows Server Hyper-V to simplify the operations of virtual networking infrastructures as extensions of physical networks.

It also provides full VM-level visibility, security controls in a virtualized environment that are consistent with their Cisco physical network.

By working with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) management tools, the Cisco Nexus 1000V will help network, virtualization and server administrators gain efficiency in collaboratively managing multi-tenant and mobile virtual environments. It also helps them to obtain real-time data for troubleshooting of virtual environments.

The Cisco Nexus 1000V and VM-FEX solutions for Hyper-V will be available when Windows 8 Server is released to the market.

Filed Under: Partnerships Tagged With: Cisco, Cisco Nexus 1000V, Cisco Unified Computing System, Hyper-V, microsoft, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Virtual Machine Fabric Extender, VM-FEX, Windows Server, Windows Server Hyper-V

Windows Server 2008 R2 Coming Half July, Public Availability Of Hyper-V 2.0 Set For 22 October

June 7, 2009 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

From Microsoft’s Windows Server Division Weblog:

“You may have seen some of the recent news articles that have started to roll out around the RTM and General availability dates of Windows 7.  As Windows Server 2008 R2 is a joint development effort with Windows 7 we are aligned with the same RTM and General Availability (GA) dates.

With that – Windows Server 2008 R2  RTM code is on track to be available to our partners sometime in the 2nd half of July. Windows Server 2008 R2 will also be broadly available about the same time as the Windows 7 GA date of Oct 22.

Download and start testing with the RC candidate at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver“

Via Virtualization.info

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Hyper-V, Hyper-V 2.0, microsoft, virtualisation, virtualization, Windows 7, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 rtm

VMware: Not just hypervisor revenue

September 12, 2007 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Stephen Shankland from CNET reported that more than 80 percent of VMware income comes from higher-level tools, a move that gives the EMC subsidiary more breathing room against rivals.

In the old days, VMware made its money selling core virtualization software called a hypervisor that lets a computer run several operating systems simultaneously. Now it’s moved beyond that.

“Over 80 percent of our revenue comes from outside of our hypervisor today,” VMware President Diane Greene said in a press meeting at the company’s VMworld show in San Francisco. “We’ve done a very effective job of building products that unlock the value of virtualization for our users.”

That’s significant, given the competitive realities that face the company. The open-source Xen hypervisor today is available for free, and Microsoft plans to build a hypervisor code-named Viridian into its future Windows Server.  Read more at source.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Diane Green, EMC, Hypervisor, Viridian, virtualisation, virtualization, vmware, VMWare Hypervisor, VMWorld, Windows Server

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