Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch

Product Overview

The Cisco Nexus™ 1000V virtual machine access switch is an intelligent software switch implementation for VMware ESX environments. Running inside of the VMware ESX hypervisor, the Cisco Nexus 1000V supports Cisco ^® VN-Link server virtualization technology, providing

• Policy-based virtual machine (VM) connectivity

• Mobile VM security and network policy, and

• Non-disruptive operational model for your server virtualization, and networking teams.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9902/data_sheet_c78-492971.html

Someone just lost a bet with me on this as I knew this was only a matter of time before Cisco released a virtual switch. Now time to start preparing for the new Virtual CCIE track ;-)