Virtual Computing Environment coalition
The Virtual Computing Environment coalition was a joint venture announced in November 2009 between Cisco and the EMC Corporation with additional investment from VMware and Intel Corporation[1]. The Virtual Computing Environment coalition was later combined with Acadia to form a single entity, VCE (company), in January 2011 [2].
Products
The Virtual Computing Environment coalition produced the a series of reference architectures that combined elements of computing, networking, storage, and virtualization. The reference architectures were made available for download in PDF format [3]. The specific reference architecture combined VMware vSphere running on Cisco Unified Computing System connected with Cisco Nexus switches, attached to EMC_Symmetrix using Connectrix[4].