Foundation Topics
Cisco Nexus switches require minimal configuration to work, as you have seen in the previous chapters. When you purchase Cisco Nexus switches, install devices with the correct cabling, and turn on the switches, the switch defaults all the interfaces into a single VLAN, known as VLAN 1. You would never need to configure the switch with any more details than the base configuration if all devices were in a single VLAN 1, and it would work fine until you needed more than one VLAN. But if you want to use VLANs—and most every enterprise network does—you need to add some configuration.
This chapter separates the VLAN configuration details into three major sections.
The first looks at how to configure access interfaces, interfaces ...
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