Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch for Microsoft Hyper-V

Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch for Microsoft Hyper-V provides following advanced feature in Microsoft Hyper-v and SCVMM.

Integrate physical, virtual, and mixed environments
Allow dynamic policy provisioning and mobility-aware network policies
Improves security through integrated virtual services and advanced Cisco NX-OS features

The following table summarizes the capabilities and benefits of the Cisco Nexus 1000V Switch deployed with Microsoft Hyper-V and SCVMM.

Capabilities	Features	Benefits
Advanced Switching	Private VLANs, Quality of Service (QoS), access control lists (ACLs), portsecurity, and Cisco vPath	Get granular control of virtual machine-to-virtual machine interaction
Security	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Snooping, Dynamic Address Resolution Protocol Inspection, and IP Source Guard	Reduce common security threats in data center environments.
Monitoring	NetFlow, packet statistics, Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN), and Encapsulated Remote SPAN	Gain visibility into virtual machine-to-virtual machine traffic to reduce troubleshooting time.
Manageability	Simple Network Management Protocol, NetConf, syslog, and other troubleshooting command-line interfaces	Use existing network management tools to manage physical and virtual environments.

The Cisco Nexus 1000V Series has two major components:

Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM)- The software component is embedded on each Hyper-V host as a forwarding extension. Each virtual machine on the host is connected to the VEM through a virtual Ethernet port.

Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM)- The management module controls multiple VEMs and helps in defining virtual machine (VM)-centric network policies.

Supported Configurations

Microsoft SCVMM 2012 SP1/R2
64 Microsoft Windows Server 2012/R2 with Hyper-V hosts
2048 virtual Ethernet ports per VSM, with 216 virtual Ethernet ports per physical host
2048 active VLANs
2048 port profiles
32 physical NICs per physical host
Compatible all Cisco Nexus and Cisco Catalyst switches as well as switches from other vendors

Comparison between Cisco Nexus 1000V editions:

Features	Essential Free Version	Advanced
VLANs, PVLANs, ACLs, QoS, Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP), and multicast	Yes	Yes
Cisco vPath (for virtual services)	Yes	Yes
Cisco NetFlow, SPAN, and ERSPAN (for traffic visibility)	Yes	Yes
SNMP, NetConf, syslogs, etc. (for manageability)	Yes	Yes
Microsoft SCVMM integration	Yes	Yes
DHCP snooping		Yes
IP source guard		Yes
Dynamic ARP Inspection		Yes
Cisco VSG*		Yes