Cisco, Red Hat expand virtualization partnership

MUMBAI, INDIA: Networking company Cisco and Red Hat Inc., an open source provider, expanded their virtualization collaboration with the integration of Cisco Virtual Network Link (VN-Link) technology with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

Red Hat and Cisco would integrate Cisco Unified Computing System Virtual Interface Card with Kernel based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor included in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

Brian Stevens, chief technology officer and vice president, Engineering, Red Hat, said: "Today, Red Hat becomes the first Linux vendor to offer an integrated VN-Link virtualization solution with Cisco, marking another important step forward in Red Hat's virtualization and Linux technology leadership,” he added.

“The growth of virtualization in the datacenter and cloud computing, coupled with the adoption of Linux-based server infrastructures, has created a need for a simplified solution for virtualized server I/O,” said Ed Bugnion, chief technology officer, Server Access and Virtualization business unit at Cisco.

The integrated solution is expected to be available from Red Hat and Cisco later this year in line with the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, including the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor.