What the the parent OS for NX-OS?

[nileshbhadane123]

NX-OS based on what type of operating system?  (means does it based on FreeBSD or Fedora or Ubuntu or any other OS?)

Thanks & regards,

Nilesh Bhadane

[luis_cordova]

Hi @nileshbhadane123 ,

I see this in Wikipedia:

NX-OS is a network operating system for the Nexus-series Ethernet switches and MDS-series Fibre Channel storage area network switches made by Cisco Systems. It evolved from the Cisco operating system SAN-OS, originally developed for its MDS switches.[1]

It is based on Wind River Linux and is inter-operable with other Cisco operating systems.[citation needed] The command-line interface of NX-OS is similar to that of Cisco IOS.[2]

Regards

[nileshbhadane123]

how to find a version of the Wind River Linux used for the device? What is the command to find out on cisco network device?

[luis_cordova]

Hi @nileshbhadane123 ,

Maybe this link can help you:

https://developer.cisco.com/docs/nx-os/#!open-nx-os-linux/open-nx-os-linux

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Regards