Cisco Cisco Nexus 1010 Virtual Services Appliance Data Sheet

 

 

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Figure 2.    Cisco Nexus 1000V Architecture 

 

Product Architecture 

Network administrators can install and configure virtual access switches similar to the way they install and 

configure physical switches. Dedicated VSM hardware is especially helpful during data center power up because 

there is no dependency in finding server resources for the VSM. Thus, the Cisco

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 CSP allows network 

administrators to manage the Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual access switches like physical switches and scale server 

virtualization deployments (Figure 3). 

Figure 3.    Cisco CSP Architecture