Call it the dark side of virtualization: it creates as many problems as it solves, breaking established networking best practices, reducing management visibility, and even disrupting once-friendly relations between network and server administrators.

How can you restore law and order in the data center? More important, how can you eliminate the downsides of virtualization so you can realize its full potential?

Special co-host and data center expert Steve Phillips joins the TechWise team to show you how the new Cisco Nexus 1000V and Cisco VN-Link enable you to automatically empower virtual servers with the same network configuration, security policy, diagnostic tools, and operational models as physical servers. Learn how they provide a common management model for both your physical and virtual network infrastructures. Find out how these innovative new solutions allow you to take virtualization to the next level by:

• Creating predefined network and security policies that automatically follow each virtual machine throughout its lifecycle, minimizing compliance issues
• Relieving server administrators of the burden of managing network switches and policies
• Restoring visibility and control for network managers
• Speeding deployment of virtual servers and optimizing server bandwidth for I/O-intensive applications
• Transforming virtual machines into the long-awaited basic building block of the data center