Cisco Nexus 1000V Datasheet page 2

Simplify virtual networking operations
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Strengthen security
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In addition to the virtual form factor, a physical form factor to host all virtual appliances relevant to the Cisco Nexus
1000V Switch is available: the Cisco Nexus 1100-S Virtual Services Appliance.
Hypervisor-Independent Architecture
The Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch for KVM employs the same hypervisor-independent architecture used across
other hypervisors (such as VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V), and has two components (Figure 1):
The virtual Ethernet module (VEM) is deployed on each physical host managed by the Cisco Nexus 1000V
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as part of the KVM hypervisor.
The virtual supervisor module (VSM) can be deployed as a virtual appliance on any KVM host or on the
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Figure 1.
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With greater visibility into traffic between virtual machines, these switches simplify your network
troubleshooting and your network policy management.
REST APIs facilitate orchestration and management by providing access to numerous server
configuration management tools.
By extending network policies and network visibility to the virtual machine level, virtualization-aware
networking increases security.
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