Cisco delivers data centre virtualization orchestration solution

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7/26/2007 8:30:00 AM By: ITBusiness Staff

Networking

Cisco announces VFrame Data Centre to support application services

Cisco announced VFrame Data Centre (VFrame DC), an orchestration platform that leverages network intelligence to provision resources together as virtualized services. Further, VFrame DC includes an open API, and integrates with third party management applications, as well as best-of-breed server and storage virtualization offerings.

With VFrame DC, customers can now link their compute, networking and storage infrastructures together as a set of virtualized services. This services approach provides a way to view all the services configured at the application level. VFrame DC offers a policy engine for automating resource changes in response to infrastructure outages and performance changes. Additionally, these changes can be controlled by external monitoring systems via integration with the VFrame DC web services application programming interface (API).

The real time provisioning engine has a comprehensive view of compute, storage and network resources. This view enables VFrame DC to provision resources as virtualized services using graphical design templates. These design templates comprise one of four VFrame DC modular components: design, discovery, deploy, and operations.

Many application environments can benefit from VFrame DC including: Web Tier such as Apache and IIS, Oracle 11i application suite, SAP R3, BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Oracle 10G RAC, multi-server clustered applications, grid based applications, and large dynamic development and test environments.

VFrame DC has been tested with server platforms including servers from Dell, HP, and IBM; storage platforms including products from EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, and NetApp; the two top data center operating systems including Linux and Microsoft Windows Server, and several business-level monitoring and middleware platforms including products from TIBCO and Cisco Application Networking Services (ANS).

Additional information and resources on Cisco VFrame DC can be found at http://newsroom.cisco.com/networkersUS/2007/

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