Virtualization Insights

Business Transformations at Cisco

The very first Nexus 1000V prototype supported open source hypervisors. However, Nexus 1000V supporting VMware vSphere came to market first. Come join this session to find out how Nexus 1000V has gone back to the future in supporting open source hypervisors with OpenStack as the primary management tool. In addition, come find out how Cisco is making VXLAN even easier to deploy without the need for IP multicast in the underlying physical network.

Learn how Cisco and VMware can jointly help you deliver a simple cost-effective VDI solution and the associated value proposition! Join our speakers to gain a greater understanding of how your desktop solution can benefit from a joint Cisco and VMware solution.

Multisite organizations are reducing the number of servers in their branch offices by moving applications and server capacity to the central datacenter. Yet, they continue to place a few essential applications locally because of performance, availability, or compliance requirements. By making use of x86 blade servers, these lean branch offices can lower equipment and operating costs, right-size and simplify infrastructure, and improve hardware provisioning and remote management.

In this session, you will also learn how deploying vSphere in remote office and branch offices can greatly simplify operations through centralized management and control through vCenter. In addition VMware High Availability and Fault Tolerance keep business critical application “always up and running” in the branch. This session will demonstrate how customers have achieved operational consistency between branch and datacenter application deployment while still maintaining optimal application experience for users in the branch office.

You will learn about the Network Analysis Module (NAM) and the Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) which can be hosted on the Nexus 1010 & 1010-X.

You will learn how to access and use Cisco's CloudLab located at https://cloudlab.cisco.com. Several labs are available covering Nexus 1000V, Virtual Security Gateway (VSG), and VXLAN.

You will learn about the technical features and benefits of VMware's vCloud Director and how it leverages VXLAN technology by utilizing Cisco's Nexus 1000V virtual access switch embedded in the hypervisor.

You will learn about the technical architecture of Vblock and how the Nexus 1000V virtual access switch, the Virtual Security Gateway (VSG), and the Virtual Wide Area Application Services (vWAAS) enables VM networking and virtual services on the Vblock platform.

You will learn about QoS frameworks to address multimedia traffic across the entire data center including at the hypervisor level utilizing the Nexus 1000V.

You will learn about the technical architecture of FlexPod and how the Nexus 1000V/1010 enables VM networking on this platform.