TOKYO, October 24, 2008 - Cisco Systems Godo Kaisha (President and CEO: Edzard Overbeek; Address: Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo; Cisco) today announced that, with other market-leading companies, it has created a virtualization environment using unified fabric and has implemented interoperability trials to advance Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision. Cisco also announced that it has set up a Cisco® VN-Link and a virtualization demonstration in the customer proof of concept (CPOC) facility at Cisco's Tokyo head office to provide a environment for customers to experience virtualization.
The storage, server, adapter, virtual server and system integrator vendors who collaborated in the creation of the system include the following: EMC Japan Corp., ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corp., Intel Corp., Emulex Corp., Dell Inc., NetApp Japan, K.K., Net One Systems Co. Ltd., NEC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Japan Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd., VMware Inc., and Q-Logic Corp.
In the CPOC environment, customers receive explanations of the benefits brought about by next-generation networks from a business perspective, and can also experience the benefits of virtualization first-hand. This enables customers not only to reduce the amount of effort required for connection checks during the design and creation of virtualized systems, but also to flexibly expand their ideas of a successful business while actually using a next-generation system environment.
The unified fabric enables the integration of Internet Protocol (IP), storage and server clustering networks over the Internet, reducing the number of server interfaces and simplifying cable management. Additionally, it reduces costs and improves operational efficiency while protecting existing investments in data center resources. This unified fabric is made possible through open standards such as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Cisco Data Center Ethernet.
Virtualized IT system environments are expected to become common within enterprises, requiring physical servers, virtual servers and storage to operate seamlessly together. The creation of a virtualization environment using a unified fabric and the implementation of interoperability tests has enabled companies across various industries to accumulate knowledge of FCoE environments.
1 Cisco VN-Link
Cisco VN-Link is a solution for providing smoother implementation of virtual servers in enterprises that have reached the deployment phase. The implementation of virtual servers requires harmonious design, setup and management of servers, storage and the network. Cisco VN-Link provides a solution to bridge these. Network policies can be set on a virtual server basis. Sound security policies can be applied to each virtual server even in movement of virtual machines between physical servers and live migration. It provides a common design, setup and operation environment for physical and virtual servers.
Cisco VN-Link is provided as a software solution on Cisco Nexus® 1000V running a VMware ESX environment. As a hardware solution, it is supported by the Nexus switch that supports VNTag currently being standardized. Furthermore, on the storage side, it is supported by the Cisco MDS9000 Series multilayer SAN switch.
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