- Resiliency
Cisco NX-OS delivers highly secure, continuous operations, with failure detection, fault isolation, self-healing features, and hitless In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) that helps reduce maintenance outages. - Virtualization
It enhances virtual machine portability and converges multiple services, platforms, and networks to reduce infrastructure sprawl and total cost of ownership (TCO). - Efficiency
Operational tools and clustering technologies reduce complexity and offer consistent features and operations without compromising functionality. - Extensibility
Cisco NX-OS is designed to scale current and future multi-processor hardware platforms and offers easy portability across varying platforms with consistent features. It facilitates the integration of innovations and evolving standards, delivering long-term feature extensibility.
The full-featured, modular, and scalable Cisco NX-OS network operating system - available on the entire Cisco Data Center switching portfolio - helps enable the Cisco Unified Fabric. Its modular building-block approach helps you quickly integrate innovations and evolving industry standards. Built as the foundation of Cisco Data Center Business Advantage, Cisco NX-OS helps ensure continuous availability and sets the standard for mission-critical environments. Its self-healing, highly modular design makes zero-impact operations a reality and provides you with exceptional operational flexibility and scalability. Delivering the critical features for next-generation networks, Cisco NX-OS is designed around four pillars: resiliency, virtualization, efficiency, and extensibility.