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What is difference between cisco nexus switches and cisco normal IOS switches?

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Question added by Amjad Alam , Sr. System Administrator , CampusEAI
Date Posted: 2013/12/14
Mostafa Khamies Dakam
by Mostafa Khamies Dakam , Network Specialist , Libyan Fertilizer Company

Cisco Nexus Switches designed for data center, it runs NX-OS which support high performance and high reliability for data centers.

Atta Ullah Meer
by Atta Ullah Meer , Network and Security Engineer , Presidio Networked Solutions

NX-OS and IOS are same as previously PIX OS and IOS.. they can do allot of things similar but configuration concepts, default values, commands are different. 

NX-OS is majorly focused on Datacenter technologies and has allot of improvments on IOS.

 

i.e.

HSRP

... in iOS on1 device will be active.

... in NX-OS both can be active ... same as GSLB in iOS

vDC and vPC are the major advancements on iOS

 

Dinu Uthaman
by Dinu Uthaman , Network Specialist , Cognizant Technology Solutions

Nexus switches are designed for datacenter management, virtulisation, storage technologies andUCS setupThere are so many features with Nexus like Vpc, Vdc, Otv etc

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