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HP and VMware, Inc. have announced plans to collaborate to deliver federated network solution, designed to provide customers unified automation of, and visibility into, their physical and virtual datacentre networks, enabling business agility and improving business continuity.
The new HP-VMware networking solution will federate the HP Virtual Application Networks SDN Controller with the VMware NSX network virtualisation platform to provide customers with an integrated approach to automating their physical and virtual network infrastructure. The networking solution will provide a centralised view, unified automation, visibility and control of the complete data center network, improving agility, monitoring and troubleshooting.
“Networks must be agile enough to enable the adoption of cloud and mobility while ensuring continuity,” said Prakash Krishnamoorthy, country manager, HP Networking India. “Building upon our SDN leadership, the HP-VMware networking solution unifies visibility and automation of the physical and virtual network with a common control plane, enabling new application and service delivery in minutes rather than months.”
The HP-VMware networking solution promises to eliminate manual configuration of both the physical and virtual data center networks through interoperable automated orchestration of policies. It also will create a single view of the network—both physical and virtual.
The HP Virtual Application Networks SDN Controller also will include support for VMware Open vSwitch Database (OVSDB) management protocol. This enables HP FlexFabric top-of-rack switches to participate in the automated provisioning of the virtual network, which will be delivered by VMware NSX network virtualisation platform.
“Customers are adopting network virtualisation to gain the necessary agility needed to realise the promise of virtualised and cloud datacentres. To be successful, IT organisations need solutions to deliver common management of services and operations across the physical and virtual domains,” said Stephen Mullaney, senior vice president and general manager, networking and security business unit, VMware. “By collaborating with HP on a federated networking solution, we will help our joint customers create a unified network operations model that will radically simplify IT in the software-defined datacentre.”
HP also introduced the HP 5930 top-of-rack switch with built-in intelligence based on VXLAN technology, extending network virtualisation to the servers, and allowing customers to leverage their virtual and physical networks to work together as one entity.