VMware, Cisco in virtual network pact
During the VMWorld tech conference, the company previewed what it calls the Virtual Extensible LAN, or VXLAN. The company said it was partnering with Cisco, Arista Networks, Emulex, Broadcom, and Intel to standardise the technology in cloud computing networks.
CBR Online reports that the companies also announced enhancements to several desktop virtualisation and cloud infrastructure offerings.
Cisco said VXLAN can be created on-demand, enabling enterprises to utilise computing and storage capacity for mission-critical applications.
VXLAN will also support applications running in hybrid clouds where compute capacity is delivered from various resources that span across private and public clouds, and will offer a network encapsulation technique with segment identifiers for creating millions of logical networks and for enabling workloads to move across data centres and cloud infrastructures.
According to CTO Edge, as part of an effort to facilitate the broad adoption of this technology, Cisco and VMware have submitted VXLAN as a proposed industry standard to the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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