Network Virtualisation – Nexus Switch

The Nexus 1000V switch is a pure software implementation of a Cisco Nexus switch. It resides on a server and integrates with the hypervisor to deliver VN-Link virtual machine-aware network services.

Leveraging the expertise of ITopia Consulting, the Cisco Nexus 1000V switch provides server virtualisation technology to help ensure consistent, policy-based network capabilities to all physical or virtual servers in a customer’s data centre.

Policy-Based Virtual Machine Connectivity

• Provides real-time coordinated configuration of network and security services
• Maintains a virtual machine-centric management model, enabling the server administrator to increase both efficiency and flexibility

Mobile VM Security and Network Policy

• Moves policy with a virtual machine during live migration to help ensure persistent network, security, and storage compliance
• Helps ensure that live migration won’t be affected by disparate network configurations
• Improves business continuance, performance management, and security compliance

Non-disruptive Operational Model

• Aligns management and operations environment for virtual machines and physical server connectivity in the data center
• Maintains the existing VMware operational model
• Reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) by providing operational consistency and visibility throughout the network
• Offers flexible collaboration between the server, network, security, and storage teams while supporting organizational boundaries and individual team autonomy

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