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NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching: Next-Generation Data Center Architectures, Second Edition
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NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching: Next-Generation Data Center Architectures, Second Edition

by Ron Fuller, David Jansen, Matthew McPherson
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced
864 pages
26h 12m
English
Cisco Press
Content preview from NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching: Next-Generation Data Center Architectures, Second Edition

Chapter 6. High Availability

This chapter covers the following topics focused on high availability:

Physical redundancy

Generic online diagnostics

NX-OS high-availability architecture

Process modularity

Process restart

Stateful switchover

Nonstop forwarding

In-Service Software Upgrades (ISSU)

Requirements in the data center are rapidly changing—where there were once generous maintenance windows, now there are none. Best effort delivery of service has been replaced with strict service-level agreements (SLAs), sometimes with financial penalties incurred to lines of business or customers. This chapter introduces various hardware and software components that make the Nexus 7000 a highly available platform to meet these changing data ...

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