NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching: Next-Generation Data Center Architectures, 2nd edition

Published by Cisco Press (March 14, 2013) © 2013

  • Ron Fuller
  • David Jansen
  • Matthew McPherson
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The complete guide to planning, configuring, managing, and troubleshooting NX-OS in the enterprise–updated with new technologies and examples.
Using Cisco Nexus switches and the NX-OS operating system, data center professionals can build unified core networks that deliver unprecedented scalability, resilience, operational continuity, flexibility, and performance. NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching is the definitive guide to applying these breakthrough technologies in real-world environments. This extensively updated edition contains five new chapters addressing a wide range of new technologies, including FabricPath, OTV, IPv6, QoS, VSG, Multi-Hop FCoE, LISP, MPLS, Layer 3 on Nexus 5000, and Config sync. It also presents a start-to-finish, step-by-step case study of an enterprise customer who migrated from Cisco Catalyst to a Nexus-based architecture, illuminated with insights that are applicable in virtually any enterprise data center.
Drawing on decades of experience with enterprise customers, the authors cover every facet of deploying, configuring, operating, and troubleshooting NX-OS in today’s data center. You’ll find updated best practices for high availability, virtualisation, security, L2/L3 protocol and network support, multicast, serviceability, provision of networking and storage services, and more. Best of all, the authors present all the proven commands, sample configurations, and tips you need to apply these best practices in your data centre.

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  • Chapter 1 Introduction to Cisco NX-OS
  • Chapter 2 Layer 2 Support and Configurations
  • Chapter 3 Layer 3 Support and Configurations
  • Chapter 4 IP Multicast Configuration
  • Chapter 5 Security
  • Chapter 6 High Availability
  • Chapter 7 Embedded Serviceability Features
  • Chapter 8 Unified Fabric
  • Chapter 9 Nexus 1000V
  • Chapter 10 Quality of Service (QoS)
  • Chapter 11 Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV)
  • Chapter 12 Layer 3 Virtualization and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
  • Chapter 13 LISP
  • Chapter 14 Nexus Migration Case StudyIndex

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