Data Center Virtualization

Cisco Data Center 3.0 comprises a comprehensive portfolio of virtualization technologies and services that bring network, compute/storage, and virtualization platforms closer together to provide unparalleled flexibility, visibility, and policy enforcement within virtualized data centers.

Virtualization:
Reduce TCO and increase business agility, efficiency, and resilience.

• VN-Link technologies deliver consistent per-virtual-machine visibility and policy control for SAN, LAN, and unified fabric.
• Virtual SAN, virtual device contents, and unified fabric help converge multiple virtual networks to simplify and reduce data center infrastructure and total cost of ownership (TCO).
• Flexible networking options to support all server form factors and vendors provide a consistent set of services across the data center to reduce operational complexity.
• Network-embedded virtualized application networking services allow consolidation of remote IT assets into virtualized data centers.

Unified Fabric:
Reduce Costs and Increase Flexibility

A typical data center environment supports two to three parallel networks: one for data, one for storage, and possibly one for server clustering. In addition, servers often have dedicated interfaces for management, backup, or virtual machine live migration. Supporting these interfaces imposes significant costs related to interfaces, cabling, rack space, upstream switches, and power and cooling.

Unified fabric consolidates these different types of traffic onto a single, general-purpose, high-performance, highly available network that greatly simplifies the network infrastructure and reduces costs. To do all this, a unified fabric must be intelligent enough to identify the different types of traffic and handle them appropriately. In addition to reducing total cost of ownership, unified fabric supports broader data center virtualization by providing consistent, ubiquitous network and storage services to all connected devices.

Unified Computing System:
Streamline Data Center Operations

Cisco Unified Computing System unifies network, compute, and virtualization resources into a single system that delivers end-to-end optimization for virtualized environments while retaining the ability to support traditional OS and application stacks in physical environments. It is next-generation data center platform that accelerates the delivery of new services simply, reliably, and securely through end-to-end provisioning and migration support.

The Cisco Unified Computing System:

• Streamlines data center resources to reduce total cost of ownership
• Scales service delivery to increase business agility
• Radically reduces the number of devices requiring setup, management, power, cooling, and cabling

Cisco Solution Track Online:

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