Getting Started With VMware vSphere and Emulex/Cisco SANs

Overview

The combination of VMware vSphere and Fibre Channel SANs provides substantial CapEx and OpEx savings. Cisco and Emulex are leaders in Fibre Channel technologies and provide scalable, high-performance hardware and software components that fully enable server virtualization in the data center. This paper explains some of the components and concepts involved in deploying VMware vSphere on a SAN in conjunction with the Cisco MDS 9000 and Emulex HBAs. This paper is the first in an ongoing series that will be jointly published by Cisco, Emulex, and VMware.