MUMBAI, INDIA: As part of their ongoing collaboration, Cisco, NetApp and VMware announced a fibre channel over Ethernet (FCoE) solution for VMware-virtual environments.

The companies claim that the solution will reduce the number of devices and cables needed and to drive data centre consolidation, virtualization, and automation.

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Cisco data centre switches and NetApp storage FCoE solutions are now validated by VMware to support VMware-based virtualized environments.

VMware validated Cisco Nexus 5000 series switches and NetApp FAS series unified storage support FCoE protocol in virtual environments running VMware vSphere.