There are always limitations and system-reserved resources on network platforms. For years, certain VLANs have been “off-limits” on IOS platforms. With NX-OS, we also have “off-limit” VLANs, however they are different from the IOS counterparts.
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VLANs in IOS and NX-OS
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010Missing VLANs are not automatically created in NX-OS
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010In 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… (more…)