Red Hat and Cisco have expanded their virtualisation collaboration with the integration of Cisco Virtual Network Link (VN-Link) technology with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation.
Under the collaboration, Red Hat and Cisco are integrating the Cisco Unified Computing System Virtual Interface Card with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor included in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation. The combination is expected to create a logical network infrastructure that will help to provide visibility, control and consistency of the network for virtualisation.
Red Hat said that VN-Link automates the movement of network and storage services so they can follow virtual machines as they are moved around the datacentre, helping to ensure consistent policy-driven network capabilities across all servers, physical or virtual, in a customer’s datacentre.
The new combination allows virtual machines to directly access physical I/O resources and facilitates customers to manage and secure virtual environments with network control provided by VN-Link on a per-virtual-machine basis for applications running under Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation, the companies said.
In addition, it will quicken the application deployment with the automation of virtual machine creation with policy-based network configurations and allows achieve consistent network management, security and isolation with large-scale cloud deployment.
Brian Stevens, chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at Red Hat, said: "With the tight integration between the Cisco Unified Computing System and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation, we are offering our joint customers significantly enhanced virtualisation performance capabilities."
