DoSTOR analysis of the store on October 9: Cisco Systems, Inc. today announced a data center for the use of InfiniBand hardware and virtualization software virtualization schemes, the software is Cisco in April this year, spent 250,000,000 U.S. dollars to acquire Topspin Communications The company acquired.
Cisco also announced VFrame virtualization software and ServerFabricSwitch (SFS) InfiniBand switches, host bus adapter (HBA), Ethernet and Fiber Channel version of the Universal Gateway (GeneralAvailability).
In fact, Cisco announced today that the Universal version (GeneralAvailability) is from Cisco. Topspin is the above-mentioned products in the pre-acquisition by the OEM partners who resell the products, Topspin / Cisco will continue through OEM partners to resell these products.
Cisco has completed the Topspin products and its MDS storage network switches, and Catalyst switches between a testing interoperability. These have Cisco of the equipment, Cisco hopes to Vframe software in data centers with the use of InfiniBand for storage virtualization resources. So far, InfiniBand has been in the field of high-performance computing are widely used. Cisco
server virtualization business unit in charge of StuAaron said: We found that a growing number of large enterprise applications began to InfiniBand.
Cisco InfiniBand is that the end-to-end storage grid pattern of lack. Cisco hopes to establish grid users through SFSInfiniBand-to-Ethernet and InfiniBand-to-FibreChannel gateway to connect to Fiber Channel, InfiniBand, and Ethernet switches. VFrame will be able to cross the entire network configuration and management of the switch.
Topspin from May 2004 to launch the beginning of VFrame, allows users to different types of servers and storage devices to share memory. Despite the Topspin with Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun has OEM deal, but at that time, as a start-up companies, Topspin would definitely not be as ambitious as Cisco.
but Cisco announced today virtualization plans seem to be too ambitious . First of all, VFrame can not fully prove that they can manage servers, networks and storage devices. Even if the VFrame can manage, users may not be very willing to put all these resources under the control of a vendor. Furthermore, Cisco and its partners may still exist between some of the conflict, as Cisco's storage partners EMC and IBM have already announced they enter the virtual data center in the area of the will.
Aaron that Cisco is committed to working with partners of cooperation rather than confrontation. He said: Now you have a server virtualization and storage virtualization, the gap between two technique. We can partner to provide the server and storage virtualization together. Brbrbr