Trace | 
07 11th, 2011| 
Well this was a very interesting session. Roberto Mari gave the presentation. He is the product manager of the line and boy does he know his stuff. I’m always fascinated by the level thought that has to go into designing these switches. The high availability design of the OS is amazing. Running Linux and supporting the multiple processors and other hardware has given some nice advantages. Things like being able to watch processes and if a process stops responding they can actually restart it with a new pid but maintain the state of it before the crash.
The virtualization that NX-OS supports is of great interest to me as well. My company continues to grow and i can visualize a point at which we will end up with potentially a production, development, test, etc networks. The ability separate some of these for real tests especially in conjunction with our ability to bring up machines, the actual machine, a clone of a machine in VMware.
I would suggest reviewing this session on your USB stick if you missed it.
