Memory and I/O always the most important pieces in virtualization environment which will define the consolidation ratio in server virtualization. This will direct impact the TCO and ROI for the data center project. Cisco had launched their UCS server for quite some times which able to scale up the server memory up to 384 GB per 2 CPU server. Cisco UCS support up to 48 DIMMs slot in a single blade or rack mount server follow with the 250 M1 series product range.
This picture show how the memory architecture been define in the Cisco memory architecture.
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Just came across the release note from Cisco and VMware about the latest version Nexus 1000V R1.2 for VMware vSphere 4. According to the original blog there are new improvement on the area below
- GUI setup following software install
- Layer 3 control between VSM and VEMs
- Virtual Service Domains for classifying and separating traffic for network services
- iSCSI Multipath—supporting multipath feature introduced in vSphere 4
- XML API for developing client apps for managing/monitoring the Nexus 1000V
- DHCP Snooping for validating DHCP messages and filtering invalid responses
- Dynamic ARP Inspection for validating ARP requests and responses
- IP Source Guard for filtering traffic on interfaces to valid MAC and IP addresses
- MAC Pinning for assigning Ethernet port members to particular port channel subgroup (where upstream switches do not support port channels)
- Static Pinning
There are more new features in the latest release and please read more from here.
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Vblock and the new VCE join venture program had been officially launched by Cisco, EMC and Vmware globally since 3rd November 2009.
What is contain in Vblock? It is an end to end package of virtualization include Cisco, EMC and VMware products which simplify the delivery method of the virtualization cloud infrastructure moving forward.
You can read the full details from here
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I just got the confirmation from the Cisco representative as the Nexus 1000V will be bundle on the Cisco UCS as FOC if the customers who deploy the virtualization VMware vSphere 4 with Cisco UCS platform. It will definitely be helpful and encourage more users to be adopted on nexus 1000V implementation in the Virtual Infrastructure when the VMware vSphere 4 are deploying on Cisco UCS platform. If you are running the VMware vSphere 4 with others server vendor, the Nexus 1000V will be an extra features with additional cost.
FCoE will be the next trend for most users to be adopted. Previous post I had explain about the high level architecture from Cisco UCS. Here I will describe the FCoE end to end solution which is slightly different with the UCS architecture. Please note that both architecture is similar but it does not same to each others.
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