Deliver Efficiency with Software Defined Networking. -The cost and operational benefits of server virtualization has been expanded to the entire data center, including network, security, storage and management. Automation capabilities and comprehensive advanced management has been added to virtualization platforms for infrastructure to quickly adapt to changing conditions based on performance, application needs and user demands.
In the last decade, companies and organizations have rapidly been adopting networking virtualization (NV) in an effort to take advantage of the flexibility offered by software-based computing and storage resources. With software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization promoting decoupling of the control and forwarding planes, more emphasis has been put on network virtualization.
Network Virtualization and VMware NSX
Network virtualization is the process of combining hardware and software network resources and network functionality into a single, software-based administrative entity called a virtual network.
VMware network virtualization comes in the form of VMware NSX. VMware NSX is the network virtualization and security platform for the software-defined data center (SDDC).
A virtual network built with VMware NSX is a software container that offers logical network pieces to connected workloads. These logical networks are created and managed programmatically by using the underlying physical network as a packet forwarding backplane, allowing for network and security servers to be appropriated and attached to virtual machines (VMs) within a network. As the VM moves from host to host, these services will remain attached to it and go where it goes. Network virtualization can help data center operators achieve better speed, economics, and choice.
VMware NSX lowers application provisioning times down considerably, from months to minutes. VMware network virtualization is also said to boost data center security building security directly into the data center infrastructure. This allows users to deploy advanced partner services to increase protection and reduce risk.
VMware Network Virtualization Benefits
VMware NSX offers the following advantages for customers:
- Agility: limits time of provisioning from weeks to seconds.
- Cost: reduces both OpEx and CapEx with automation that eliminates manual configuration and streamlines network hardware requirements.
- Choice: operates on any hypervisor, any network hardware, and integrates with any cloud management platform.
