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Cisco NX-OS and Cisco IOS Comparison

NX-OS and IOS have several key differences in their licensing, feature enablement, interface naming conventions, and boot processes. NX-OS uses a feature-based licensing model, allows enabling and disabling individual features like OSPF and BGP, labels interfaces as Ethernet without specifying speed, supports logical partitioning of devices into virtual device contexts, and uses a two-stage boot process with kickstart and system images.

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Cisco NX-OS and Cisco IOS Comparison

NX-OS and IOS have several key differences in their licensing, feature enablement, interface naming conventions, and boot processes. NX-OS uses a feature-based licensing model, allows enabling and disabling individual features like OSPF and BGP, labels interfaces as Ethernet without specifying speed, supports logical partitioning of devices into virtual device contexts, and uses a two-stage boot process with kickstart and system images.

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Cisco NX-OS and Cisco IOS Comparison:-

A few key differences worth mentioning:

▪ NX-OS uses a feature-based license model. This enables flexibility in licensing


for
uses in different areas of the network in which not all features are required.
▪ NX-OS has the capability to enable and disable features such as OSPF, BGP, and
so
on via the feature configuration command. Configuration and verification
commands
are not available until you enable the specific feature.
▪ Interfaces are labeled in the configuration as Ethernet. There aren’t any speed
designations in the interface name. Interface speed is dynamically learned and
reflected in the appropriate show commands and interface metrics.
▪ NX-OS supports VDCs, which enable a physical device to be partitioned into
logical
devices. When you log in for the first time, you are in the default VDC.
▪ By default, Cisco NX-OS has two preconfigured instances of Virtual Routing
Forwarding (VRF): management and default-default. All Layer 3 interfaces and
routing protocols exist in the default VRF. The mgmt0 interface exists in the
management VRF and cannot be moved to another VRF. On the Nexus 7000,
mgmt0 is
accessible from any VDC. If VDCs are configured, each VDC has a unique IP
address
for the mgmt0 interface.
▪ Secure Shell version 2 (SSHv2) is enabled by default. (Telnet is disabled by
default.)
▪ NX-OS uses a kickstart image and a system image. Both images are identified
in the
configuration file as the kickstart and system boot variables. The first image
that boots
is the kickstart image, which provides the Linux kernel, basic drivers, and
initial file
system. The NX-OS system image boots after the kickstart image; the system
image
provides L2, L3, infrastructure and feature support such as OTV, multicast,
FEX, and
so on.
▪ NX-OS removed the write memory command; use the copy running-config
startup config.
The alias command syntax can be used to create an alias for a shortcut.
▪ The default Spanning Tree mode in NX-OS is Rapid-PVST+.

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