TA2763

Unified Data Center Virtualization with Cisco and VMware

Virtualization is a 'top of mind' concern for most Data Center Managers as it can yield dramatic savings in capital expenditures and operating costs by utilizing Data Center resources more efficiently. In addition, virtualization can yield operational and management advantages. Adoption of virtualization can create economies of scale, enable power and cooling efficiencies, and facilitate automated provisioning for a shared infrastructure. Large server footprints inside the data center are forcing customers to look towards consolidation. New technologies like 10GE and Unified I/O are further facilitating the trends towards virtualization whereby multiple applications can share the same hardware without an impact on performance. Virtualization projects often begin with server virtualization but don't yield maximum impact if a holistic viewpoint is not considered.
A truly virtualized data center must simultaneously deploy server, network and storage virtualization solutions in order to achieve the benefits. This joint service offering by Cisco and VMware provides customers the benefit of implementing an end-to-end cohesive architecture.
Overview of the joint Cisco/VMware assessment and plan/design services.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

Rupen Sheth( VMware,Inc. ), Simanta Chakraborty( Cisco ), Zeeshan Naseh( Cisco ), Andy Knosp( VMware, Inc. )

Rupen Sheth is Release Architect from VMware Professional Services Organization. Rupen has extensive experience developing and delivering numerous VMware services including Assessments, Plan and Design, Health Checks, Jumpstarts, etc. Rupen has worked with numerous customers and partners in pre-sales and virtualization engagements to provide business justification using the TCO Calculator. Rupen has also developed the content for the Virtualization Assessment service offering that uses the VMware ROI/TCO Calculator.

Andy Knosp is a Senior Director in VMware's Professional Services Organization and is responsible for VMware's portfolio of consulting services. Mr. Knosp has 12 years of experience in development, marketing, sales, and delivery of IT consulting services.

Simanta Chakraborty is a Director in the Data Center Practice of Cisco Advanced Services. He is responsible for the delivery team supporting Cisco's Server Access & Virtualization Business Unit, focusing on the product lines brought to Cisco from the acquisition of Nuova Systems. Simanta joined Cisco Systems through the acquisition of Reactivity. He has held executive leadership roles in Services, Sales and Engineering at various successful technology ventures for the past ten years in the US and Europe. Mr. Chakraborty has been an invited speaker at industry symposia both in the United States and abroad on various topics relating to the impact of emerging technologies to the enterprise. Simanta holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, with a Minor in History, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Zeeshan Naseh, CCIE (#6838), is a Distinguished Services Engineer in Cisco's World Wide Data Center Practice within Advanced Services. His primary responsibilities have been supporting Cisco's major customers, including service providers, wireless service providers, large enterprises, and financial institution. As a design consultant, Zeeshan has focused on Content Switching and Data Center Architectures. Zeeshan has authored several white papers and design documents that have been published on Packet Magazine, IETF and on CCO (www.cisco.com). Zeeshan is the author of the data center book titled Designing Content Switching Solutions
(ISBN: 1-58705213x).