Author: Mister Nobody

Многие читатели нашего бложика читают и другие бложики, которые распространяют нехорошие слухи. Erik Scholten с очень известного сайта www.vmguru.com в статье What’s new in vSphere 6 Networking пишет:

Another major change in vSphere 6 on the networking side is the support for third party switches or rather the disappearance on it.

Huh? What did he just say? Did I hear that right? You’re surprised?

I’ll say it again. In short, vSphere 6 no longer supports third party (distributed) switches like the Cisco Nexus 1000V.

As of vSphere 6 VMware does not allow third parties (Cisco) access to their kernel. There’s no official statement yet but I would not be surprised if this is due to the battle with Cisco in the SDN space. Not allowing access prevents Cisco from using the Nexus 1000V which in turn prevents them from SDN control using ACI.

Что меня как пользователя данного продукта от Cisco изрядно напрягло. Спешу опровергнуть данный слух официальным прессрелизом от Cisco:

Announcing Cisco Nexus 1000V for VMware vSphere 6 Release

Разница только в том, что сейчас распространяться и поддерживаться Cisco Nexus 1000v будет по каналу Cisco, а не VMware:

One of the common questions coming from our customers is whether VMware is still re-selling and supporting the Nexus 1000V via VMware support?

VMware has decided to no longer offer Nexus 1000V through VMware sales or sell support for the Nexus 1000V through the VMware support organization as of Feb 2nd 2015. We want to reiterate that this has NO IMPACT on the availability and associated support from Cisco for the Nexus 1000V running in a vSphere environment. Cisco will continue to sell Nexus 1000V and offer support contracts. Cisco encourages customers who are currently using VMware support for the Nexus 1000V to migrate their support contracts to Cisco by contacting their local Cisco Sales team to aide in this transition.

Обновление. Эрик, прочитав нашу заметку, изменил свою статью и отчитался в комментариях.