Cisco Distributed Nexus 1000v closer to reality in Hyper-V
One of the major differences between vSphere and KVM, Hyper-V and XenServer has been the ability to integrate 3rd party distributed switches. VMware vSphere has had the ability to support Nexus 1000v for a few years now while it has been “coming” to Hyper-V for awhile now. Well I missed the announcement of the public beta for Nexus 1000v on Hyper-V. The below Cisco blog gives some detail of the state of their distributed switch in Windows Server 2012.