In the Cisco Nexus 7000 series switches there are several features that are bound to the hardware, meaning that your module selection restricts the features you can run on the switch ports. Thus, here is once again a summarization of the module-dependent features: Update 20-Apr-2013: Added OTV and LISP, clarified M1 FEX support. Update 22-Jul-2013: […]
Tag: nexus 7000
NX-OS Releases and Platforms
The Cisco NX-OS releases for different platforms are identified interestingly. Let’s start with the mother of all NX-OS releases: x.y(z) = for Nexus 7000 Here x is the major release or software train, y is the minor release and z is the maintenance release. An example of the version number is 5.2(5). See Cisco NX-OS […]
Choosing Your Core Switches
When designing data center or campus LAN with Cisco products (see I made the point clear here immediately) a no-brainer solution is using Nexus 7000 switches in the core. There aren’t really many cases you can go wrong operationally with it in general-purpose data center or even campus environments. But, if you think they cost […]
Cisco Live 2012 London Afterthoughts
Returned from Cisco Live 2012 (the European edition in London, Jan 30 – Feb 3) I’d like to share some thoughts about the happening. This was my second time in this world-class Cisco event, the first time was in Networkers 2008 in Barcelona. This time we were four network specialists and architects attending from our […]
NX-OS and IOS Default Configuration Differences
I just found this a couple of days ago: http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Cisco_NX-OS/IOS_Software_Default_Configuration_Differences Good summary about the default configuration differences between NX-OS and IOS. Lots of people are familiar with the settings in IOS but NX-OS is often a new experience. That document is one of the must-read documents for those who are migrating routing from good old […]