PALO ALTO, CA — (Marketwired) — 08/26/13 — HP (NYSE: HPQ) and VMware, Inc. today announced plans to collaborate to deliver the industry-s first federated network solution, designed to provide customers unified automation of, and visibility into, their physical and virtual data center networks, enabling business agility and improving business continuity.(1)
As companies embrace cloud and mobility, manual network configuration has proven time and resource intensive, as well as error prone. Network virtualization offers a centralized control plane, but does not automate configuration and provisioning of physical network devices.
The new will federate the with the network virtualization platform to provide customers with an integrated approach to automating their physical and virtual network infrastructure. The networking solution will provide a centralized view, unified automation, visibility and control of the complete data center network, improving agility, monitoring and troubleshooting.
According to Gartner analyst Joe Skorupa, “A hybrid model blends the device-based and the overlay models, transparently mixing physical and virtual devices under a common control plane. This approach promises a rapid time to value, support for bare-metal endpoints (servers, networking, security appliances and so forth) and a smooth migration to an optimal mix of endpoints.” (2)
“Networks must be agile enough to enable the adoption of cloud and mobility while ensuring continuity,” said Bethany Mayer, senior vice president and general manager, Networking, HP. “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.”
A typical cloud data center network may require 10,000 provisions per day, each requiring at least 20 network command line changes. These 200,000 command line changes would require 3,333 man hours to complete, assuming 1 minute per command.(3) 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 switches to participate in the automated provisioning of the virtual network, which will be delivered by VMware NSX network virtualization platform.
“Customers are adopting network virtualization to gain the necessary agility needed to realize the promise of virtualized and cloud data centers. To be successful, IT organizations 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 data center.”
HP also introduced the switch with built-in intelligence based on VXLAN technology, extending network virtualization to the servers, and allowing customers to leverage their virtual and physical networks to work together as one entity.
HP offers clients a single point of contact to help support and evolve complex data center networks while incorporating the benefits of software-defined networking (SDN). The new provides clients with a single, environment-based relationship that can incorporate the HP-VMware networking solution into existing and future environments.
HP also helps clients determine where SDN can deliver optimal benefits to their organization with the , which builds organizational alignment and an initiative roadmap for the client, taking into consideration SDN-enabled business benefits and risks. The service also helps clients explore architectural options that consider their current state and best path to the future, both from a technology and investment point of view. As a result of the workshop, clients can determine their pragmatic path for their unique SDN journey, incorporating people, process and technology.
The new software application runs on the HP Virtual Application Networks SDN controller and unifies the visibility and control of the virtual and physical networks by leveraging the (IMC), which is already integrated with VMware vCenter. This creates a single point of control for both networks, while simplifying management.
HP and VMware will demonstrate the federated network solution in the software-defined zone 2235 at , held August 25-29, at Moscone Center. In addition, HP will showcase new products and services in booth 1405.
The HP-VMware networking solution is expected to be available worldwide in the second half of 2014.
HP ConvergedControl is expected to be available worldwide in the second half of 2014.
HP FlexFabric 5930 is expected to be available worldwide in December 2013.
HP-s premier EMEA client event, , takes place Dec. 10-12 in Barcelona, Spain.
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(1) Based on HP internal comparative analysis of publicly available data from major competitors.
(2) Gartner, “Market Trends: Business Realities Driving SDN in Data Center Networking in 2013 and Beyond,” Analyst: Joe Skorupa, May 28, 2013.
(3) Based on HP internal testing.
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