Instant Workload Mobility Among Data Centers

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Cisco innovative enhancements to IETF standard Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), called Advanced-VPLS enables easy Data Center Interconnect (DCI). (4:53 min)

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Cisco Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solutions enables IT organizations to meet business continuance and corporate compliance objectives, and provide benefits that include:

Reducing business impact of localized and large footprint disaster events
Improving productivity through enhanced application and data availability
Meeting corporate and regulatory compliance needs and improving data security

These solutions transparently extend LAN and SAN connectivity and provides accelerated, secure data replication, server clustering and workload mobility between geographically-dispersed data center sites. This allows organizations to enhance business resilience, and enable application and data mobility between data centers, while maintaining operational consistency.

Featured Products

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series LAN Extension Solution

Significantly simplify long-distance VMotion, distributed clusters, and other Layer 2 applications across distributed data centers.

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series LAN Extension Solutions

Increase processing power, distribute workloads, and increase application availability.

Cisco MDS 9500 Series SAN Extension Over IP

This integrated, cost-effective, reliable business continuance solution uses the existing IP infrastructure.

Featured Content

Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) Overview FLASH (Video - 3:54 min)
Learn how Cisco OTV can simplify Data Center Interconnect deployments and operations.

Nexus 7000 - Overlay Transport Virtualization
Extend Layer 2 applications without changing or reconfiguring your existing network design.

Data Center Interconnect (DCI) At-A-Glance (PDF - 447 KB)
Learn how Cisco Data Center Interconnect solutions support your increasingly distributed and mobile business.

Cisco Data Center Interconnect Design and Implementation Guide (PDF - 2.9 MB)
See how Cisco DCI helps connect multiple data centers together for Layer 2-based business applications.

IT groups need to deliver always-on services, while meeting corporate initiatives to reduce capital and operational expenses. To improve application and data availability, while reducing total cost of operations, IT must provide disaster recovery across geographically-distributed active data centers.

Cisco Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solutions extend LAN and SAN connectivity across geographically-dispersed data centers. These solutions allow organizations to provide high-performance, non-stop access to business-critical applications and information. They support application clustering, as well as Virtual Machine (VM) mobility between data centers, to optimize computing efficiency and business continuance.

These solutions offer flexible connectivity options to address LAN and SAN extension needs across optical, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), or IP infrastructures. They also provide:

Transparency to WAN network architecture
Support for multi-data center architectures
LAN and SAN extension, with per-data center fault isolation
A resilient architecture that protects against link, node, and path failure
Optional payload encryption
SAN Write acceleration and compression, to increase replication options

Cisco DCI solutions offer a scalable, flexible platform that satisfies requirements for server and application mobility and business continuance.

Services

Cisco Business Continuance Assessment Service

Identify what you need to do to increase the resiliency of your data centers and quickly recover from disasters. (PDF - 176 KB)

Cisco MDS 9000 Series SAN Extension over IP

TechwiseTV: Extending the Data Center (Podcast - 47:00 min)

Layer 2 Extension Between Remote Data Centers Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Virtual Switching System and L2VPNoGRE

Data Center Interconnect Technical Overview (Audio - 74:15 min)

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Instant Workload Mobility Among Data Centers