Cisco has collaborated with Microsoft to provide virtual switch support which should make the offering more attractive to those who are debating VMware following their recent licensing changes.
Cisco is set to offer virtual switch support for Hyper-V which is currently found within VMware through it's Nexus 1000v virtual switch.
This joint collaboration will provide customers with greater control and monitoring across their Hyper-V estates.
How important this will be is yet to be determined as it is unclear how important enterprises place granular control and monitoring across the virtual switch. You would expect this granularity to be important for those customers who have a large investment in Cisco equipment and will also become a more determining factor when looking at hybrid cloud solutions.
The support for Hyper-V will only come once Microsoft release Windows Server 8 which has Hyper-V 3.0 integrated.
Cisco will provide customers two ways to analyse data across the switches these are:
Cisco Nexus 1000V switch is designed to be a distributed virtual switch, this kits each Hyper-V guest with a virtual Ethernet card that can be managed through a Cisco Virtual Supervisor Module.
The other alternative Cisco will offer is a new version of Cisco Unified Computing System Virtual Machine Fabric Extender, which extends Cisco management to virtual environments.
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