In IOS, if we assign a switchport to a non-existent VLAN, the switch will kindly create the missing VLAN for us. NX-OS does not do that – if a switchport is assigned to a missing VLAN, the interface will be placed in the down state. Let’s look at it… Read more »
Tags: 5000, access vlan, automatic, cisco, config, ethernet, example, ios, nexus, nexus 5000, nexus 5010, nexus 5020, nx-os, switch access vlan, training, tutorial, virtual lan, vlan
Cisco Nexus, Networking | tim | 
2010-02-17 11:53 am | 
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The whole idea around features in NX-OS has been intriguing to me. It’s a good idea – I like it. It seems very similar to services on many other OSs (particularly *nix systems), however it doesn’t always strike me as having a rich feature set as of now.
For instance, the NX-OS config guides repeatedly refer to the show feature command to look at which features are enabled. I’ve already mentioned that this command doesn’t exist today in older NX-OS versions – the currently-available NX-OS versions today support this feature (a reader confirmed this on the N7k and I’ve confirmed it on the N5k). See this article for more info. There are some interesting behaviors around features, in that some are manually enabled, while others are automatically enabled and disabled as needed. Let’s dig into this a little deeper for an example… Read more »
Tags: 7000, 7010, automatic, cisco, config, configuration, enable, example, feature, feature fex, fex, manual, nexus, nexus 5000, nexus 5010, nexus 5020, nexus 7000, nexus 7010, nx-os, training, tutorial
Cisco Nexus, Networking | tim | 2010-02-10 11:36 am | Comments (0)
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